Chilly, windy beachcombing …

 

The last few days have been chilly with rain on and off during the day..

Unseasonably chilly weather for this area in South Carolina.

 

We had to bundle up ..

Down coat, hat, gloves..

When we did we were warm and ready to..

Follow the foam…

 

Out to the north end of the island..

The flock of Red Knot are still present the past three evenings..

feeding at the edge of the surf..

The ever present Sanderlings..

darting around…catching dinner..

I went out into the wind and chill last night on my own..

Jeff stayed back at camp to catch a few Zzs..

I had a mission..

Not just to look at the birds..

Or the incoming tide..

Which is pretty incredible by the way…

The beach becomes much smaller at high tide here..

My mission is to search for shark teeth..

My new obsession..

I discovered that high tide is not such a great time to hunt for shark teeth.

Most of the areas I search were covered with water..

I had much better luck at low or incoming high…

I did see a few stranded jellies..

A bright pink ocean plant..

Here are a few teeth I found a few days ago..

Do you see it?

Here is another one..

This is what I first see….

I look for the Y shape..

This is a rather nice tooth..

I found two this same shape..

Luckily I found one special tooth before peak high tide yesterday..

I have not yet Identified the teeth I have collected, though I suspect I have a few Sand tiger shark teeth.

I think the one below looks like an Extinct White shark tooth..

I didn’t have much luck after finding the above tooth..

The tide pretty much covered most of the beach..

We extended our stay here by one day..

I will continue my search today..in between raindrops....

Yippeeee..

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Beachcombing!