A nice, calm, overcast day, with temperature in the upper 30s - lower 40s.
The tide was low, but not very low (we walked at astronomical low tide, but the tide was elevated due to previous south winds.)
These are nearly perfect conditions for fossil hunting. A lot of beach exposed, enough surf to move it around, but not enough make it too hard to see and grab things. Also, I think overcast lighting is better than winter's slanted sunlight, with casts a lot of black triangular shadows.
I thought I had the trip won with this
tiny dolphin tooth (the big crab claw was a bonus).
Then Georgia found this big
White Shark tooth laying at the high tide mark.
She also found a huge, but tipless lower
Snaggletooth, which might have been a record had it been intact.
On the way back, I spotted this
Cow Shark being washed around in the surf. Certainly good enough for the kitchen window sill for now.
My haul on the left, 26 sharks teeth, 4 crab claws, a ray chevron, and 3 drum teeth. On the right, Georgia's 21 sharks teeth, a crab claw and a couple broken ray plate pieces.
The best day in a fair while.
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