Santa Barbara has some great tide pools if you know where and when to look.

This one armed guy refused to let go.

Infact, he is missing a whole side

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Fishing and Hunting

I finally went spearfishing today and man was I rewarded for it. Conditions were beautiful and my reef was teaming. I saw two lobster hanging in a cave and within short time I nailed my lunch.

As me and my buds were heading out I decided to do some fossil hunting in the marine terrace at the beach cliffs. There in the dirt lay a perfectly intact skull complete with teeth from some poor lil critter. I'm thinking it is a baby raccoon.

Miocene scallops

I went to an exposure of the Rincon Shale formation in my locality to find this:

BTW it was raining fat

And now my collection display looks like this:

The Rincon formation was deposited in a deep marine environment and is roughly 20 million years old

Hunting full on

This is what slaughter looks like. Killed this bloak with my slingshot.

Geology

Geothermal Power Plant - Coso volcanic range

Abandoned Tungstun Mine

My epic collection

Organisms displayed on Triassic moenkopi ripple formation siltstone. Some older, some younger. The triassic period lasted between the "Great dying" Permian-Triassic extinction event roughly 251.4 million years ago to the Triassic_Jurassic extinction event 199.6mya (wikipedia).

The moenkopi formation is aged at about 240my.

Fossilized snail shell next to the broken calm shell was found at carpenteria beach and is of unknown age.

On the beach

Me n gib snuck down to the beach. Shot some seals...with a camera!



What be dis?

The gun was unloaded, the berrel pointing down into the rocks and saftey engaged
It would take a cruel individual to shoot a seal with a pellet rifle.


Smaller pray on the otherhand...not so much.