Visit the kelpforest....

After finding an Earthcache up in Spokane, I was pleased to see one (of several)a little closer to home. This one is in a neighborhood in San Pedro, only a few blocks up the street from the harbor, where I occasionally go to sample fish. Not a real wonderful neighborhood, but a rarity in that the geology is exposed to view; normally placed like this would be covered up by iceplant or a retaining wall or something. In this case, one layer of ancient seabottom cuts across another, older and tilted at an angle. There are all kinds of fossils here; part of getting credit for this one was emailing in what made the holes in the sediments at the contact. Hint: there were fossils of them spread throughout these sediments.

Urban Unconformity
San Pedro CA
Canon EOS 1000D
18 June 2009

( Ancient Diggers... )

For the first time, the fry and I attended an "Event Cache" - where a bunch of local geocachers get together at a certain point, and some bring things call "travel bugs" and "geocoins" to exchange - these are items or coin-like things with unique number codes, which are supposed to be moved from cache to cache, sometimes with a specific goal in mind ("get Nemo the Fish from the Atlantic to the Pacific"). I got to meet quite a few people who I'd previously only known by username.

Wherigo hint
Newport Beach CA
Sharp VE-CG30
12 September 2008

The above was a major hint from a new kind of cache called a ( Wherigo... )