Weather: August, Daily Weather, etc. etc!, 1 by Kelli

Kelli wrote:
Back to Carpinteria - what Carpinteria does have is tar. It's been there for ages and isn't the result of offshore drilling or anything like that. Carpinteria is Spanish for something like carpentry place. About 200 years ago, the Chumash Indians built boats here. They split logs into planks and sewed them together and waterproofed them with tar. The black "rock" formation in this picture is actually a mound of tar.