6/5/09

This is an old trip from last friday.  I ventured to the beach on the way home.  I had high hopes that were quickly dashed once I saw how high the tide was.  The wind was blowing in hard and the water was up a lot.  The waves were making booming noises as they crashed against the cliffs.  Far from ideal conditions, but I decided to make a go for it.  I made my way down the beach not finding too much just small teeth here and there.  I went to an area that had been productive before and had some sucess there again.  I found two cow shark teeth with mostly complete roots.  I found my first "hubble" meg, which would have been even better nice if one of the root lobes hadn't broken off.  There was also a decent mako and hemipristis tooth.  I noticed a while before I decided to pack it in that a thunderstorm was coming.  Well, once I was on my way back in the rain started along with thunder.  This made for an interesting trip back to the car.  So I had to deal with all the usual obstacles (downed trees.. submerged rocks... slippery clay) along with rougher than normal waves, a thunderstorm, water splashing from against the cliff face soaking me.  I knew I needed to get out of there quickly and somehow I managed to not fall on the way back.  And thankfully there was no lightning.  It was quite the eventful trip.  I made it out in one piece with some nice teeth so all was well in the end.