The winter tides and storms pounding Lieutenant Island's west shore exposed a partially fossilized bone extruding from the low-tide drained beach. A little investigation and a lot of hard spadework produced a skull of a long ago buried pilot whale (blackfish) skull, well preserved in anoxic peaty soil of a former salt marsh. An exciting discovery that hints of the historic past of this area of the Outer Cape, both as a subsistence coastal whaling community and its constant changing topography as barrier dunes and marshes shift with the march of tide and time.
Ancient?
ShilgenVens 3 years ago