The beach is in far South West Louisiana. The Water is brown but chocked full of life.
Dolphins patrolled just off shore in the muddy water
Shrimp boats were just off shore and further out were dozens of oil rigs.
This is at Holley Beach. Totally wiped off the face of the earth by the last two hurricanes.
Some people are rebuilding, but higher and stronger than before.
Junior The Bear and Fatman visited in June of 2009. This is Fatman trolling the shore line for good trash and doubloons.
Keeping JTB from collecting all the dead things was difficult.
A fossilized whale bone.
A sea bean.
Long fish.
Whale bone fossil, cool.
ReplyDeleteWhat trhe heck is a sea bean?
The bones were found in a layer of fossil clam shells and mud where the waves were eroding a swamp area. There were four bones total. Might have been more but the tide was coming in making it impossible to search in the layer for more than a few minutes.
ReplyDeleteFossil whale bones were probably from a small version of a primitive Eocene whale (Basilosaurus cetoides)often found in that area.
Sea Beans, well Fatman says I have to google them so:
http://www.seabean.com/what.htm
Holly Beach, were we all were, is about 2 hours from YB's place.
I'm headed down to Corpus next week. Too dang cold to hang out here.