Thanks again Mike!

Back in the spring I traveled to NC to try to find what had been elsusive to me up to that point...A complete Great White tooth. When you mention GW's and NC one name that comes to mind is MikeDOTB and he was kind enough to show me the ropes.

Now Mike was coming to Md. and it was time to repay the favor. I will let Mike tell the story of our hunt because it is more his adventure than mine. I will tell anyone who hunts with Mike he has a keen eye and dosen't miss much as evidenced by my few finds while following him down the beach. I did manage a few nice finds such as my first Croc tooth from that location on the bay. And something else.. as I looked hard to see anything Mike missed I was constantly using my tooth scoop to tap on things in the many clay blocks along the beach. Most were just pieces of wood that seems to be abundant in some layers of material. Then as I tapped one it surprised me by making the tell-tale clink of bone! As I looked closer I could see a tooth.. What looked like a mammal tooth in a section of jaw, a rare find for the exposures along the bay. Since it was in a block that was completly covered during the high tide it was fair game. I slowly chopped it out of the block being careful to stay far enough away from the bone and tooth so that I could prep it out at home later. As I preped the block of clay I could see right away that there was more than one tooth present. But There was another bone next to the teeth that just didn't seem to be in the right place? As it turns out I have found most of the upper dentition of a Peccary - 9 molars/premolars and one canine. There was also was another piece of skull which I might add is paper thin.

I now owe Mike Thanks again! If it weren't for Mike coming to Md I would have been working that day.

Thanks Mike!!