I finally made it to the river last week - three times! This post is a combination of them all.

Last Tuesday, our washing machine leaked all over the floor for the last time and we bought a new one. It served 12 years and was ready for the next part of its life's journey in the landfill. I got the awful thing hefted into the back of my truck along with an old air conditioner that looked like it used to be attached to a government trailer in the 1950s. Seriously, lik...

Rest of the teeth and frags.

This is one robust shark tooth. A tip away from superhero status.

A hot day down by the banks in James City County.

I am a bit behind on this - a month late or so.  So I am finally catching up here.

About a year and a half ago I tried to take an offshore dive trip. It seemed like a nice change from the usual 3 inches of visibility - instead they promise 50 foot of vis.  What they don't tell you at the travel agent is that unlike river diving when you get about about 99% of the time, the offshore trips seem to have a rate closer to 50-50. The...

SATURDAY     morning was foggy and muggy. They were calling for temps in the mid 90s and 100% humidity. I think that equels out to feeling something like 136 degrees. The fog blocked the sun until around 2pm. I decided to go kayaking. The beach was crawling with people but I did get to meet bmore for the first time. The best thing there ended up being a squalodon tooth + a few ok makos.....nothing great. And by that...

I headed to the beach Saturday, figuring that the weatherman was just kidding when he said something about severe weather.  The beach had already been worked pretty hard by the time I got there, so I didn't find much in the way of big teeth, but I did get some sweet Cowshark teeth, including my largest lower symphyseal to date at 11/16ths wide, and my smallest complete lateral at only 7/16ths wide.  Unfortunately, I was concentrating so mu...

I have been hunting a lot lately, but not posting very much because there just isn't much to post. I've been going to Dutch creek 3 or 4 times per week for about 2 or 3 hours per outing. I push myself and sift as hard as I can. Call it Paleo-Sprinting if you will. Its just long enough for me to get all stank and find a few teeth. Most days I don't find but a handful of punies, but sometimes a few nice ones shine above the rest.

This particular post is the su...

Make no mistake the bay is not Lee Creek, but sometimes you can find teeth that have just "melted" out of the matrix.   These gems can be just as pristine and in some cases have a very similar color to the famous teeth from the south.

This mornings trip was very typical of what can be had on a semi product...

My first Bottlenose dolphin tooth!

I first want to thank PCS and all the other people who help make hunts like this possible!

The weekend started out great when I found my first White Tip Reef Shark tooth on one of the spoil piles in town! But the best was yet to come. On Sunday I was lucky enough to be able to hunt in the mine. With all the rain and less than normal pressure this year I had hight hopes. I started out with intentions of hunting the area I had found my Parotodus ...

This weekend I went out to my girlfriend’s grandparent’s house.  They live in the Northern Neck of VA on the Potomac which works out great for me because on the way home I pass Westmoreland Co.  I went out to the state park and found about twenty teeth, nothing with any size to it.

  With all of the storms that we've had lately, I had a good feeling about going hunting today.  It turned out to be my best day ever!  The beach has been completely rearranged, with some old falls gone and some new falls present, and the teeth are abundant.

  I had never before found a 3 inch Meg here, but today I scored 2!&...

  When I headed out on Saturday morning, I knew that the conditions would be far from ideal.  High tide was about 9 AM, the surf would be high and rough because of all the rain, and more rain was in the forecast.  I knew that surface hunting wouldn't work today, so I broke out my old sifter and shovel, and went in search of the smaller, rarer teeth that can be found here.

Today I got off work at six and headed straight for the York river. I had my kayak and was going to look for a new spot. I found this beach that looked promising and stoped to check it out. I hadn't been out the boat five minutes and I found an arrow head! I haven't found many teeth on the York but I keep trying because I know thay are out there, but I was not expecting to find arrow head. That made my day... after that I just paddled around until dark happy with my find.

Very nice colors! It looks like someone spilled white paint on it.

I had a feeling about this place. You know the kind of feeling that makes no sense but you just have to go with. This place gets hunted so hard that you almost never find much of anything at this time of year but I just had to try. The only one there when I arrived was a guy from NJ that had been scheduled to hunt PCS this weekend and had never been here before. As I passed by I gave him a few pointers and headed down the beach. I found an interesting little vert almost right...

Today I hit two beaches. The first about a hour before low tide and the second at low tide. I had a pretty good day, the weather was great and the teeth just kept on coming. I found a 1'' Hemi in realy good shape and two nice Mako. I found the blonde Mako when I was walking back from the second beach, I was climbing over a fallen tree and when I was jumping down I thought I saw a tooth under me. Sure enough I picked up my foot and there it was looking as suprised as me.

Found in the wash by my girlfriend.

Today I picked up a friend and we headed out to Isle of Wight County in search of Indian artifacts.  I have never had much luck finding relics, but he knows a few spots and has quite a nice collection.  We had a little time to kill before low tide, so we went out to one of my spots to look for some teeth.  We weren't finding much, the tide was really high and the storm we had this weekend washed a lot of the sand out along the shore.  I found...

This was my redemption against my wife good fortune at Lafarge.

I found these the other day and couldn't figure out what thay where. I had found similar ones before but just thought thay where rocks and tossed them back in the river. Thanks to some help from another BRF member these have been ID as internal molds from a bivalve. Thanks guys

As I sit in my hotel room, I can hardly wait to hunt Lee Creek tomorrow morning with Bullshark and a few more friends all the way from The Netherlands! Anyway, I was just looking at photos and I realized that I have a post from February that I never made. So now I have something fossil related to do while I wait to do more fossil related things tomorrow.

This trip was from an old location. Its not very productive, but a...

I still haven't figured out what type of tooth this is I found on 4/1. If anyone can help me identify it  I would appreciate it.Thanks

The day started off crappy for me but not for my wife.  As we were about the 3rd or 4th people in I headed to the hills since they have had some good weathering and she stayed towards the bottom of them.  It only took about 10 minutes into the hunt before I here her screaming that she found a huge tooth.  It took me a couple of minutes to get down to her to see that she found a 3+ inch beautiful Auriculatus.&am...

Having a need for a fossil fix and the need for some camping time we were able as a family get both in for 4 days of fun at the Brownville county park, on the Peace River.  We set up camp and hit the river.  A path leads from the camp ground to the river and a huge fossil bed.  We started that day with my older son picking up a nice horse tooth right off a pile someone had just left.  Numerous small teeth were also picked up.  The ...

  After leaving the Bay, I headed down to the Potomac River to continue my all-day hunt.  I didn't expect to see many other hunters, but there were about 6 other people already hunting the north shore.  Unfortunately, I didn't see any of them until I had already gone past the point, and it was too late to turn around.  I still did pretty good out there, though.  I found a few decent Otodus teeth and lots of shame...

  On Friday I found myself with the unexpected opportunity to go tooth hunting all day.  I got to the beach at about 6:30 AM, about 3 1/2 hours before low tide, and there was nobody else there yet!  Unfortunately, the conditions were pretty lousy.  The water was absolutely still, with no wave motion at all, so anything under the sand was going to stay there today.  I did manage to find a few decent Makos, the lar...

I know I'm late, but I  finally have had a chance to get back home to make this post.  I was at PCS on the weekend of April 6th. After receiving nearly 3" of rain, I knew that this was finally my chance to find something really great!  After about 5 minutes in the mine, I found a 2" Chubby.  In total I found 7 megs -  all broken except two.  I also met several other BRF members after the day was over - Chris, Obses...