Field Trip

Our homeschooling group had a field trip today. We (all four of us) went to Seacliff State Beach and went fossil hunting with other homeschooling families. We saw a lot of very cool things. 20,000 year dead whale skulls, 50,000 year dead clams, etc. We followed the line of 11,000 year old sedementation in the cliff from sea level up to about 60 feet on the side of the cliff. I'll try to explain that a little better. In California we have earth quakes. Those quakes move the earth (duh!) but at this beach they have, over a period of years raised one end but not the other. So as you walk along the beach you can follw the 20 inch thick, white sedimentary line from sea level at one end of the beach to the up up up to the top of the cliff at the other end of the beach. The docent said that the same sedementary layer is found above 900 feet above sea level farther north on the coast. Anyway, we had fun. Anslem used a brush and uncoved some 11,000 year dead nasa snails. After that we drove north to Santa Cruz where we met my wife's sister and her husband for lunch at Vasili's. It was a good time. It was a good day.