The boys and I took the last day of Dad Camp to go to Calvert Cliffs to look for fossilized sharks' teeth and to play in the Bay waters. It's not that long a drive; we went last fall and found a handful of teeth, dug in the sand, and played with driftwood. This year, we went to a different beach that didn't cost as much to park. It was a 1.8 mile hike to the beach through woods which gave us some opportunities to see various denizens of the area. We saw a Great Blue heron chasing a snowy egret out of his area of the marsh. We saw lots of trees that had been cut down by beavers. We searched for salamanders, but didn't find any. There were lots of turtles and fish in the pond, though.
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| Searching for salamanders. |
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| Jungle Cassius searching for something. |
At the beach, we found a good spot in the shade, and proceeded to not really look for sharks' teeth.
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| My camera-shy son. |
Maceo spent some time looking with a strainer, but then he joined Cassius in playing in the water.
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| Practicing back flips. |
Instead, at the end of the time at the beach, we did find one tooth, and it is a different one than the ones we had found at the other beach. On the walk back to the car (1.8 miles, did I mention that?), we came across a small snake crossing the path with a skink in its mouth! Right in front of us, the skink wriggled away and scampered into the leaves, and the snake took off in the opposite direction. I had never seen such a thing!
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