Today USMCMan, Thing1 and Thing2, my parents, and I went to the beach. Yes, it is December 26th, but we all felt 25 pounds heavier from snurfing holiday food. Needed some fresh air and exercise and thought a walk on the beach shell-hunting would be nice.
Indeed!
Onslow Beach here at Camp Lejeune is known for its pristine condition and abundance of fun things to find: coral, shells, sea glass, and fossilized shark teeth. Usually the teeth are about 1/4 inch long and belong to long-dead sand sharks. Fun to find and I think we've got about 400 of them.
Today, however, I struck the MOTHER LOAD OF SHARKNESS! I found a 3.20 inch shark tooth! Wooooo! An ancestor of the great white and even the megalodon, this tooth is about 35 MILLION YEARS OLD-- if not older. How cool is THAT? (I apologize for typing in caps, but I'm still all excited and funked out.)
I was walking along and saw it sticking out of a sand berm. It didn't look like a shell...
IT WASN'T.
What do you think? Isn't it wild?
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