It was sunny and breezy from the NW, although it let up some as I walked, and barely 40 F. A blow-out tide, almost a foot below the astronomical low tide prediction.
Like most blow out tides, tooth hunting was awful, I walked the whole way up and back without finding a single tooth.
However, I did not come home empty handed. I found this bottle partially buried in the sand.
In case you can't read the label: A quick search on the internet shows that poison bottles were a thing in the late 1800s - early 1900s. The ribs were to make sure you could identify them in the dark. The examples I found showed they contained mercuric chloride. I haven't figured out who the bottle maker was, but they clearly sold them to pharmacies to get paper labels (2 sides are flat), and were stoppered with corks. Prices on line varied from over $100 to about $50.
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