St. Patrick's Day at the beach. It was about 50 F, mostly overcast, and blowing 15-20 knots from the NW. A pretty typical March day.
The tide was low, and the beach a bit sandy but not too sandy.
There was a big slide from the cliffs up on Matoaka since we walked by yesterday. That one would hurt if it landed on you
In the pulverized sediment at the base of the slide I found these two fossil
Geoduck (Panopea) clam shells still together. Here I've washed the sand out from between them.
This is the biggest pair of these shell still together that I have seen, and interestingly, in the shells you can see a couple of small
blister pearls.
Georgia found this lovely
cookie (an epiphyseal plate from a juvenile whale vertebra).
She also found this great Snaggletooth upper up in the dry section of the beach. By far the best of 10 teeth.
She also found this piece of
whale ear bone in the debris of the fall.
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