Moose Jaw - May 2009

Even though this is only about a mile up the beach from a park where several hundred people go every day, very few of them ever come this far. This was on top of a sand bar that is about 50 yards long, and 10 yards wide, and totally above the highest tides. There were no other bones around, unless they were buried in the sand. It had been there long enough for all the meat to be gone off it, but not long enough for the tendon to break, or for rodents to find it and recycle the valuable calcium content. It could have been there a year or longer. There weren't any other animal or people tracks in the area. I could have brought it home and cleaned it up, but I decided it would be cooler to leave it there for some other explorer to find. The 1-liter Diet Coke bottle is in the shot for a scale reference.