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... )

Had to go to a meeting in Boise, Idaho for a few days. It was a little strange because although Idaho is part of the Council my department works with (because of salmon; all the other states involved are coastal), there hasn't been a meeting there for about 20 years. The hotel where the meeting took place was right next to the beautiful Boise River, and I took advantage of some free time before sunset to hunt for a couple of nearby geocaches - my first out of state!

Boise River
Boise ID
Sharp VE-CG30
08 September 2008

( geocaching hazards - poison ivy? )