Finally, winter beach-combing is here! It's the best time of the year for finding goodies on the beach, and this winter has been no exception . . .
A very pretty lavender and pink sunrise, with three sanderlings in the foreground . . .
A hag stone . . .
A good-sized sand dollar . . .
Red knots visit my beach each early winter . . .
Another Imperial venus clam shell, still rare for my beach . . . I now have three I think. This one's a bit rough, but a keeper; it cleaned up some.
A false keyhole limpet, don't find limpets very often here . . .
Four calico clams, plus a lightning venus (top L), Baby's ear (top ctr.) and bitty baby shark's eye (top R.)
Another nice sized sand dollar . . . same size as the previous one . . .
Calico clam . . .
My beach has lots of dosinias . . .
Another sunrise . . .
A nice dark lettered olive . . .
An angelwing . . .
A very dark piece of sea glass, turns out it's a dark green . . .
Titan acorn barnacle cluster . . .
A friendly sanderling, it actually circled me and was following me, no doubt thought I might have fish bait like the fishermen . . .
Another, larger lettered olive . . .
Another calico scallop . . .
I found the daddy to the smaller fish hook I'd found a few weeks before this one (below) . . .
Jr. may be smaller, but he's got three sets of hooks. Dad only has two . . .
With winter comes the jellyfish blooms . . . lots wash up onto shore, mainly these cannonball jellyfish.
My first driftwood heart . . .
A common sea star, also seem to only wash up in winter . . .
A small pear whelk with nice markings . . .
Channeled duck clams . . . almost paper thin, always amazes me when they're whole . . . esp. these juvies.
Sun rising behind the bridge supports . . .
Always-changing beach-scape; pools and tide ripples.
