Shark Teeth

Today was a fun adventure digging for shark teeth.

Chrisi & Lewie were camping near Bakersfield and invited us to join them on a trip about 35 miles northwest of Tehachapi to try and dig for some shark teeth.

It was a really warm day - probably in the 90's, but armed with bottles of water, Derek and I headed out - bringing Shasta and Monkey in tow.

Not even to the digging spot and Shasta finds the bones of some poor deceased animal. She thought it was great fun to carry it in her mouth for a little while.

Here we are, starting to dig. Someone else was also there - but at the time, they had left for a while (I think they were just smarter and wanted to wait for it to cool off).

The poor dogs were SO hot - and panted like crazy. They tried to lay against the rock in the shade to cool down even a little.

Hey! Derek found a tooth within the first few minutes of digging. They're kind of fragile but very neat to see and find!

Michelyn is working really hard to find something of interest.

I found a tooth all by myself!!!

Chrisi and Lewie had great luck also finding some mica and petrified bone. They also brought their new little puppy, Gretchen (11 weeks old) and all three dogs got along really well.

Although slightly overheated, Shasta did not let that stop her from hunting for wild life. To our surprise, she actually caught a lizard (we could see the tail wiggling from her mouth) and then dropped it, batted it around once or twice, then ATE IT!!! Yuck!

Monkey did some exploring of his own. He was very proud to 'mark' some of the area as his.

View of the area where we found our dig site.