The Recent Closure of Santa Barbara Beaches and the Lack of a Local Organization Has Prompted

Vol. MM Editor: Lloyd Johnson Issue: October/November

PO Box 12255 La Jolla, CA 92039

I didn’t publish an October newsletter taking of abalone is tightly regulated and because there just wasn’t much to tell. I requires a license. only plan to publish 8 or 10 newsletters a year. We don’t sponsor trips to other Assuming I catch some, and learn to prepare beaches or resorts. We just go to Black’s it, I will be cooking and serving abalone Beach as often as possible and enjoy the sun for my birthday, December 3rd. I plan to on our skin. In the summer we enjoy the cook it on a small camp stove, under the water and wind on our skin too, but in the glider port. How much I serve each person winter we tough out the wind and most stay will depend on how many people show up out of the water. and how much I bring down.

If you still come to the beach this time of Please join us and bring something for the year, you already know what the weather is feast. Abalone is very tough and must be like. The rest of you should know that there tenderized, so please take your turn are still sunny and warm days here all year pounding the abalone too. round. Lately I’ve been staying from 9:00- 3:00. By 3:00 it’s getting windy and cool. That infamous group, Black’s Beach If you want to stay later, some sort of Diggers, has struck again. They built a windbreak is advised. stairway near the bottom and painted the handrails red and white. Few people get in the water without a wetsuit this time of year. I’m one of the few. I recently saw a leopard shark in waist deep water. Leopard sharks are small, mostly harmless sharks. I took a few pictures. Maybe one came out.

A few of you already know I will be out of town Thanksgiving weekend. I will be abalone hunting in Northern California.

Abalone is a delicacy, but it cannot be sold legally. I understand it is sold, illegally, for $100/pound. I can give it away to my closest friends. Erosion is a problem this time of year. The trail can change significantly overnight, if Abalone is a large shellfish. The abalone there’s rain. Mud is deposited on the beach population was decimated and has recently and sand is taken offshore to a sandbar. recovered in Northern California. The Sandy beach becomes a little scarce.

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