It wasn't quite as foggy this morning as it was yesterday, but it was still a little on the gloomy side. However, no wind made it quite a pleasant walk.
Yesterday was the start of
"meteorological winter"
in our area, the start of the three coldest months of year, as opposed
to "astronomical winter", defined by the winter solsstice.
The
Buffies were out in the Bay just off the jetties, diving and doing whatever it is that they're doing down here for the winter.
It was a pretty good day for finding shark's teeth. This is a small, but well shaped
Mako Shark's tooth.
I almost walked past this very nice
Snaggletooth Shark's tooth. This one is a particularly nice color, brown with a hint of purple. Most of the teeth are gray to black, depending on what kind of material they were buried in, but a few are nice shades of brown, and even this purplish tint.
And this Tiger Shark's tooth. This is probably the extinct
"Contorted" Tiger Shark. These are a fairly common tooth here
Physogaleus contortus aka Galeocero contortus is an extinct Tiger-like shark that, as with G. aduncus, appeared in the Oligocene and became extinct in the late Miocene.
A gull on the posing post, either laughing at me or yawing in boredom, I'm not really sure which
Skye doing the wolf act. She was much more subdued today, apparently we did get most of her ya-yas out yesterday.
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