Headed back to Clallam day before yesterday for 12 hours of slave labor and I liked it. Almost broke my back getting a big snail fossil out of a cliff. It was out of reach so I dug out some foot holds and got to within jumping distance with the hammer. I wasnt worried about the trip down bacause of the sloping soft eroded rock below. I wanted to make sure I grabbed the fossil as it came down so I wouldnt have too walk all the way down and back up the hill again. I jumped up from my foothold swung and hit just above the fossil, it came down and I caught it as I was falling. It would have been fine but because I was looking up to catch the rock, my back was arched when I hit half on the soft slope and half on the rock embankment. I heard and felt a POP! I had to sit for awhile to make sure I didnt blow a disk or something. Its a little sore but I was able to pack out a five gallon bucket of rocks back to the truck.
Later I almost busted my leg down on the beach. I was picking the base of the cliff and loosened a big rock which fell,took a bad bounce and landed on my leg pining it against another boulder I was leaning on. Ouch! even the bone ached on that one. Big bruise but ok lucky again in the same day.
I found many many more fossils but any one of three made the whole trip worth while. A nautaloid cephalopod (squid in a shell)(just the shell), a piece of bone, and the tail to a prehistoric mudshrimp thing-a-ma-creature.
Also found more snails,claws, Three more types of clams then I found last trip
One of the sites I have been collecting at.I hiked around up to the top of one of the cliffs.
some of the fossils. the nautaloid is in the right upper on the worm rock.
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