Perfect day off

I haven't had anything particularly good to report recently, but that all changed on Friday.  A friend and I were able to take the day off from work and it turned out to be a great one.  It looked like good collecting conditions when we arrived and it wasn't long before my friend yelled over to me and showed me what turned out to be a beautiful meg just a bit under 3" sitting in the water.  It has damage to the tip, but otherwise is a great lateral tooth.  I congratulated him and we relaxed for a minute or two to look at the tooth.  We had not found a nice meg in awhile so we were both quite happy.

Knowing that the good conditions had not gone to waste, I set about finding any other megs that may be laying out.  I didn’t have much time to think however, because not 10 feet from where he found his tooth, something caught my eye next to a fallen tree.  I’m very used to finding tooth shaped clay and rocks so my hopes didn’t soar until I saw a bit of bourlette sticking out of the sand.  I got my camera out and snapped a couple quick photos while hoping that it was a complete tooth.  As I slide my hand underneath the tooth, I could feel that it was mostly whole.  After a few moments I pulled out of the sand an absolutely flawless 3 7/16 meg!  It's from Zone 10 (some matrix is still attached that I've yet to remove) and it's my largest yet.  I was stunned.  Every serration is intact, the bourlette is perfect and it has beautiful coloration.  I always wondered what my exact reaction would be if I found a tooth like this one and to be honest I don’t even remember what it was besides smiling ear to ear, which I did for the rest of the day. 

After that my day was made, but we did find some other nice teeth.  My friend found a couple nice makos and another meg (though it was much smaller and damaged).  My good luck also continued as I found my smallest meg to date at only .5 ″, a nice sized 1.5 ″ lower hemi, a nice upper cowshark, two ray scutes (I'm actually not sure what the larger one is, any help or confirmation would be appreciated) and a near perfect mammal tooth that I believe is peccary.  In the end we returned after a long day with 4 megs total plus some other very nice teeth.  I was really glad we both ended up doing well.  A trip to remember for sure.