Touring around L.A.

I had the day off, so I went with Ken to the La Brea tar pits. There are a dozen or so pits in the park. The Lake Pit is the one I usually associate with the tar pits. I took a picture of it as methane was bubbling out:


They are continuously excavating the pits for fossils:


All sorts of prehistoric animals fell into the pits: mastodons, saber-tooth tigers, giant sloths, American lions, large camels, bison, and wolves. This wall in the museum displayed 400 of the 1600 wolf skeletons that have been excavated from the site:


The museum also houses a paleontology lab, where workers are currently uncovering a mastodon skeleton dubbed Zed. Its tusk is on the left:


Here's a picture of a tar bubble right before it burst:


On the way back to Ontario, we stopped in the hills of Hollywood to look at the Hollywood sign. Here is a blurry picture of the sign (my camera focused on the branches in the foreground):


On the way down, we had a good view of L.A.