Tri-state, Tri-fauna's, and Father's day !!!Been super busy over the last several weeks or more, so not too much time for trip reports etc. Spent a few days in NC (GMR & Fossil Fair) with my older son Joshua who just graduated from High School, then spent some days on the Potomac fishing with both of my sons. Managed to get in some fossil collecting on the Potomac as well. Also hit my favorite Calvert beaches and managed a few nice specimens, although on one trip everything found came from sifting due to poor conditions. The spoil piles in Aurora were fun. We found a few nice specimens including a nice upper cowshark para-symphyseal, some decent makos, and some nice micro stuff. I can add the micro's to my bottle I won at the auction with over 53,000 micro's in it :). lastly, one of those Calvert trips was from this past Sunday, father's day! Found some nice stuff with one of my sons. My other son was sorta glad he had to work because it was 93 degrees outside when I said "who wants to go to the beach with me"...and everyone looked the other way, including my wife who said, are you nuts, do you know how hot it is out there? But hey, on father's day, who could deny me! Several hours later we had some nice teeth, and capped it off with a double-scoop chocolate ice cream cone on our way out of town.
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| Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
| ID | 3706 |
| Member | Daryl |
| Date Added | 6/23/2010 |
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| Calvert trip. Everything found this trip was from sifting for several hours. |
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| Father's Day. My younger son Jordan came along with me on this trip to our favorite Calvert beach! We found some nice stuff inlcluding the shiny mako and upper cowshark. |
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| Aurora Spoils. Joshua and I hit the spoil piles near the museum for a few hours. These are the "scraps"... |
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| Aurora Spoils part 2. These are the "keepers" from the spoil piles. Josh was a good sport in helping to collect the spoil piles, but the heat did him in one day, so he spent the last 30 minutes in the van with the AC running. |
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| Paleocene on the Potomac. Collecting conditions on the Potomac actually stink right now. Almost everything you'll see in these Potomac pics is the result of sifting for over 6 hours each trip. It was so back-breaking that my lower back started to go numb after a while from bending over so much. I put in the work because it's a long ways from my house, gas is $$$, and it's a long way to the river from the car, so I refuse to leave empty handed :). |
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| Paleocene on the Potomac part 2. Here's another trip from the river in which I spent from 6am until 4pm sifting all stinking day. Went through 4 bottles of water and 2 32oz bottles of gatorade, a banana, a snickers bar, and two old pieces of gum I found in one of the pockets of my back pack. I lived on Ibuprofen for the next 2 days. |
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