Beaches of Santa Barbara featured tar long before the oil spill. Kerosene was the solvent of choice provided in the dorm shower rooms. Never thought to try peanut butter.
I occasionally found tar on Newport Beach and Huntington Beach in the 1950's.
Baby oil does a decent job too. We learned that at Ellwood beach by the Coal Point Oil Preserve.
“Beaches of Santa Barbara featured tar long before the oil spill.”
I used to work on the platforms in the Santa Barbara Channel. On the boat ride out to the rigs, you could see little blobs of oil bubble to the surface and pop, leaving a little slick on the surface. The beaches in that area are full of little tar patches on the beach. Platform Emmy has been there a long time. I’m not surprised at the news.
I was a student at Brooks Inst in Santa B 1973. We used PB for the tar. Crunchy worked great as it had it's own built in scrubbing agent.;-)
Early California missionaries reported seeing tar, from natural seepage, on the beaches.
No kidding, as a kid my dad used white gas to get the tar off our feet, lots of oil seeps off shore, coastal indians used it to line things with.. dumb ass environment woketard want to stop pumping oil.
A bit of Tar is natural on Central Coast beaches. Native Americans used it to make their canoes seaworthy.