Clint Elliott raising the bar.
I took this photo of my dad testing the muddy waters at Montezuma waterfall on the Nicoya Pennisula in Costa Rica. This is the first and largest fall in a series of three and is just a short hike from what was at the time a tiny seaside village.
Two attached fossilized whale vertebrae with a quarter for scale.
A top view of the two vertebrae showing the sliver of lighter colored stone, which used to be cartilage, separating the two fossilized bones.
A fragment of bone with penny for scale.
A close up showing the chambered, crystalized pattern characteristic of fossilized bone.
A fossilized wad of bone that looks to be a smaller vertebrae when examined closely.
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Hand drawn (acrylic/ink/colored pencil on board) full page advertisement for O’Neill wetsuits by Santa Barbara area artist Rick Sharp that ran in Surfer Magazine volume 16 number 1 in 1975.
An advertisement for Channel Islands Surfboards in Surfer Magazine volume 16 number 1 from 1975.
Spat out of the Santa Barbara Channel, a small Great White shark washed up on the backside of Rincon Point and Bates Beach in July.
Jack Elliott's Santa Barbara Adventure 