This past Sunday was a great trip. I think I may have finally been able to rub off some of my "Fossil Mainia" onto my wife. This was our 1st real get away since having a child, and it was about time.  The weekend started off on Saturday night with a nice dinner in Raleigh and we decided to stay in Greenville. So up and early on Sunday.. a little chilly but it turned out to be a great day.  One of the best things for me about these trips are talking t...

Stuck at work Monday morning on a 70 degree day, I couldn't stop thinking about all the teeth just sitting on the beach with no one to pick them up. As soon as I could get out, I headed to the beach looking forward to the hour or so of light I had to play with. I wasn't finding much, I walked for thirty minutes before I found the first one. The only interesting tooth I found was a small one with two little holes in the root. I have another tooth with a similar hole in ...

A monster of a tooth that's really sharp. No ground shot because I found this on a steep edge and I couldn't get a good shot. I picked this up with my new rake to avoid tumbling down the edge of the pile in to the water.

Welcome to good times, good exercise, and the best surface collecting for fossil shark teeth anywhere. Yes, its that time of the year again when hunters world wide converge on Aurora NC in hopes of finding megalodon teeth of the highest order.

How I have anticipated the Spring 2008 PCS hunt! With no productive land sites in SC and water too cold to dive, its been a long fossil-less winter. Not exac...

I was fortunate to collect on day1 of the season this year.  I was super excited knowing day1 can hold great potential.  It was especially great because I finally got to meet a few folks in person such as DW, Riverdigger, and a couple others that until this past weekend I had only known via the keyboard & monitor. 

As for the collecting, once we arrived at the ramp and got our quick do's and don'ts, the starte...

Chiped Tooth

I love those days when the waters are clear and the weather is calm. I found this tooth under a dock in about a foot and a half of water.

I spent the weekend camping near Calvert county MD, I didn't find any big ones but with as dry as it has been this summer I'm happy to have found what I did. This is also the first time I saw someone sifting for teeth, I've never done that before but look forward to giving it a try.

See you next summer (or sooner if I can get away for a day or two)

I found these two teeth about ten yards from each other.

  I headed to my favorite beach yesterday, getting there about 3 hours before low tide.  I was expecting a blowout tide, but the strong winds that had been forecast never showed up.  It looked as though I was going to be the first one to hunt the beach today, though. 

  In one sense, it was an awesome hunt.  I found two small Megs (plus about a third of another), 6 Makos including a tiny juv...

This post is from trips last friday and saturday.  On friday morning i combined a meeting for work with a visit to my spot on the james river.  Conditions were pretty bad; a steady light rain and temperature of 33 degrees, typical feb. day in virginia and I was loving it.  Did not find much except the large ray dermal scute and a decent sea snake vert.  The ray scute is my biggest to date, 2 inch X 1.75 and .75 thick where it rises to a point in the m...

A month and a half ago.....

Early morning in Calvert County the usual access was blocked by an incredibly high tide. The recent freezing temperatures had brought down a slew of material. We fooled around with some beach collecting then decided to spend some time digging. I found a good si...

  I almost stayed home today.  I didn't get to sleep last night until after 2 am (joys of having a three week old baby in the house!), and was up at 6:45 am to get the older kids up for school.  Plus, I seem to be catching my wife's cold.  I was literally sick and tired!  I decided to go to my favorite beach, though, because my stepdaughter stayed  home from school and was able to help with the baby, and opportuni...

  I went to my favorite beach today, not expecting to find much.  I got there about 2 1/2 hours before high tide, with a southerly wind blowing the water back up the bay.  The water was deep, dirty, and very rough.  I knew that surface hunting wasn't going to work today, so I brought along my sifter and shovel, hoping to find something decent rolling in the surf.  Unfortunately for me, the water was so deep that in most places, the...

7:30 am to 11:30----1pm to 4:45pm-----and finally 5pm to dark.  I spent my time on two different beaches and man without much to show for it. The tide was out but the wind was pushing the water on the beach all morning…..so not to much luck there. After coffee and lunch the wind had died down but still not much luck at (1).

Fossil hunting has been slow lately in Summerville. All the sites that were productive over the past few years have been completed. The new sites are moved away from areas where the fossil layers are close enough to the surface for us to reach them so they are a bust, too. When it rains we have ditch sites, but they just can't compare to digging for giant megalodon teeth!

When I found a few spot I got excited. Then when I actually got permission from the land owner t...

   I haven't been able to get out much over the last few weeks, but on Tuesday I found time to hit my favorite spot along the cliffs.  It was very cold, there was intermittent freezing rain falling, there were a half dozen other hunters on the beach, and teeth were scarce.  I had a great time out there, though.  If I don't go tooth hunting at least once a week, I start having withdrawal sickness, so this trip was definately needed!...

I had an opportunity for a Florida fossilin’ trip and gave RivrDigr the call. Well, he was bountiful with fosspitality, and he dialed up another river trip on the Peace. We hit two spots on this day, and a sifting marathon was in order. We suited up for a cool dip in the river and quickly hit the fossil beds. The first spot had some other collectors and we both found quite a few punies along with a fraglodon. After a short...

Haven't posted much lately due to the lack of being able to hunt with it raining almost every weekend.  But we did manage to get a couple days in last month that weren't to bad.  The best find of both days I would have to say is the just about perfect cow shark tooth that the wife found but she picked it up and ran over to me with it so I couldnt get the ground shot.  This is a first complete one from this location and only the second ever fo...

Saturday: February 2, 2008……

 A dolphin tooth out in the water with a real pretty cow shark and a couple nice hemis.

The tide wasn’t very low for the low tide but good day none the less

  Today was a first for me - I arrived at my favorite beach, and there was nobody else there!  Not even any footprints in the sand!  I've never had the beach to myself like that before.

  Water conditions were very good today, with an extremely low tide, but the weather sucked.  It snowed on and off all day, and the stiff wind made it even colder.  Luckily, the teeth made up for the cold!<...

I went to my favorite stretch of beach on the cliffs this morning, with temperatures in the mid teens.  Ice was everywhere, to the point that the previous high tide never made it to the beach.  Teeth were very scarce, but I managed to find a sweet Mako and a small Meg with feeding damage, both of which measured just a hair under 1.5 inches.  Even without finding a whole lot of teeth, I still had a great time out there today.  I ran into Ton...

Woke up late and met obsessed down at the beach. The tide was coming in pretty strong by the time we started walking. The good kind of incoming tide. The kind that as its coming in lifts all the lighter sediment off the shell lines on the beach first. Leaving behind all the heavier things. This only lasts for a little while and then the conditions just plain suck. Obsessed and I saw a nice mako at the same t...

So it was the second day of digging. Bob met me down there at sunrise and to catch the worm.  We walked the beach with not much luck. I got a couple smaller makos and a severely beaten up meg about 1.25’’. We worked for a solid 30 minutes uncovering our ten we found on Sunday. I was working the matrix out and doing a lot of sifting to get ...

   This lower mako tooth is complete but is a little water-worn.

I guess relics get feeding damage too!! I wonder how this one broke?? Still, a nice spear.

January 13, 2008

 10am. The wind was kicking from the east so beach collecting was pretty rough.  Beach collecting wasn’t the goal for today anyway. I met Bob and Chuck to dig an old pile.

 Sunrise today. It was high  tide in the morning but the tide never really went out at all toady. I stayed for 6 hours and did pretty well considering I only found teeth in the surf, no digging today.  I got 5 makos the largest 1 3/4. A sweet 2 1/8 meg! And a to...

These are two large associated whale teeth from Calvert CLiffs, MD.  No positive ID yet though.

Today I headed down to the Potomac shore in Charles County Maryland, in hopes of finding the perfect Otodus tooth, since the only ones I had in my collection were all heavily damaged.  I got there right at low tide, but the conditions were far from ideal.  There was a lot of aquatic grass washed up on the shore, and a lot of shoreline ice.  Plus, the duck hunters were out in force.  It can be hard to concentrate on finding teeth with gunfir...

A little damage but still a real nice tooth.

Friday- January, 4^th 2008