I would kill to live where you do and have the opportunity to just walk along the sea side. I couldn't care less if I found anything, just to be there near the ocean and have that gorgeous area to walk around. I hope you know how truly blessed you are. I live in a brown, dry, ugly, too hot or too cold climate in Canada......nowhere near the ocean......hell....nowhere near any water period. Those are stunning shells you found. Thank you for sharing your adventures.
For sure, San Diego is an amazing place to live. In fact most of California is gorgeous and amazing. I’ll be doing a lot more ocean content in the coming months. Thanks for watching and I hope you’ll stick around for more.
The disease Alalone Viral Ganglioneuritis that causes the wasting away of the animal really has been devastating. Once the Back Abalone was abundant intertidally as late as the mid 1970s possibly 80s, now as you note finding a single broken shell is noteworthy. Hopefully resistant animals will repopulate the West Coast. I've visited and shelled California many times and only have one shell find myself, never seen a live one. New Zealand and Tasmania still have good populations of Abalone, I just hope the same thing doesn't happen there.
I would kill to live where you do and have the opportunity to just walk along the sea side. I couldn't care less if I found anything, just to be there near the ocean and have that gorgeous area to walk around.
I hope you know how truly blessed you are.
I live in a brown, dry, ugly, too hot or too cold climate in Canada......nowhere near the ocean......hell....nowhere near any water period.
Those are stunning shells you found. Thank you for sharing your adventures.
For sure, San Diego is an amazing place to live. In fact most of California is gorgeous and amazing. I’ll be doing a lot more ocean content in the coming months. Thanks for watching and I hope you’ll stick around for more.
The disease Alalone Viral Ganglioneuritis that causes the wasting away of the animal really has been devastating. Once the Back Abalone was abundant intertidally as late as the mid 1970s possibly 80s, now as you note finding a single broken shell is noteworthy. Hopefully resistant animals will repopulate the West Coast. I've visited and shelled California many times and only have one shell find myself, never seen a live one. New Zealand and Tasmania still have good populations of Abalone, I just hope the same thing doesn't happen there.