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glad we missed this hail this is very unusual. our hail is pretty small this was over pea size I bet this was a hour after it happened. on our road there were piles. I was worried we would slide on our tandem but it was ok.
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Exactly why I don't let my wife bury me in sand at the beach. I'm not sure she'll stop.

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Could've been a scene in an Alfred Hitchcock movie

The bigger picture...
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Solana Beach, just south of the Cardiff State Beach parking lot. Coast Highway rides to the south often take me by here.

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A few steps north of our poor victim, clues as to what's going on. This lowest part of the Eocene Torrey Sandstone (~45 million years old) contains lots of interesting inclusions wherever it's exposed. Here you see many dark rounded iron-rich concretions. Storm waves smashing against the base of the cliff hollowed out 2 larger concretions to form the "eye sockets" above.

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You know it's the base of the Torrey Sandstone because it's resting on the easily recognized green mudstone of the older Del Mar Formation. The undulating contact between between these once flat-lying marine sediments tells of subsequent folding — perhaps related to much more recent and ongoing movement on the Rose Canyon Fault just offshore.

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Photo from a field trip in April showing buff-colored Torrey Sandstone on dull green Del Mar Formation at Torrey Pines, about 5 mi south of Cardiff. The sandstone was named for these exposures. Another pretty reliable way to recognize the Del Mar — the characteristic fantastic shapes it takes under wave erosion.

Short green seaweed happens to cover the more seaward Del Mar here, but bare Del Mar exposures are also common. Probably depends a lot on whether the exposure lies above or below mean water level..

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Here, the base of the sandstone includes many casts of fossil logs indicating a near-shore environment at the time. The hand belongs to the San Diego State geologist who led the field trip.
 
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I came upon these newly placed a block away from my house and near a park and a school. I have never ridden an Escooter but now I have no excuse to try it and I will soon. Not a big fan of sharing a helmet with schoolkids who can get lice though (-: UPDATE: I tried it. 5 bucks for 11 minutes and was not impressed. These scooters are probably not the best examples of sportiness and comfort. More likely they are built to take a licking. If I was to buy a scooter it would have to perform much better than these.
 

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I learned to drive in one of these and I still feel sorry for the damage I did to it. View attachment 157064
A used 1970 bug was my first car. Kept it going till it threw a valve going over a pass.

Still have fond memories of that car. Had several other important firsts in it, but not at liberty to elaborate.
 
Technically you don’t throw a valve…you drop a valve. You can however, throw a rod! 🤪
Yes, dropped. Luckily, put it in neutral and dropped (rolled) right into a mechanic's parking lot next to the beachside UC Santa Barabara campus.

If I'd known at 18 that going to class in a bikini was a thing, my college application strategy would have been a lot different.
 
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