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... )

Ok, back to the docks again....

( Unloading fish... )

Heh, the Blogathon radio is playing all anime music right now. Scary that I can recognize The Pillows right off the bat. Well, maybe not, considering how much I've watched FLCL lately.

( Heading out for day... )

Hmmm, that was a little worrying - my client that I'm writing in didn't want to talk to LiveJournal for a moment, but it seems ok now.

Are you tired of sunrise pics yet?

( I have a few more for you... )

A close-up of the cupola on the Forty Thieves building.



I think this is a historical building - however I've been told that everything along the San Pedro waterfront is going to be razed to building a tourist attractive waterfront, walkway, shopping, etc. I would hate to see it go - it was just renovated (on the outside, at least) a couple of years ago, although I'm not sure why someone chose the very loud peach color.