I have been married for 10 years and to celebrate, my wife and I went on a trip to the North Carolina mountains. We rented a nice place in Blowing Rock and drove the Blue Ridge Parkway back and forth doing all kinds of fun stuff. We visited Linville caverns, we hiked Grandfather Mountain all the way to the top, and we went gem hunting.

For years, I've tried to get my wife hooked on fossil hunting, but it wasn't until...

This is a rare treat. DW said it was the first complete one that he's seen come out of the river.

DW stole the day and racked an epic proportion of racks. However, for me it was not the same. I was gearing up and had a wetsuit on while it was a hundred something degrees outside. I took too long to get into the water and quickly baked in the heat. It wasn’t looking good and my eyes started to puff right up. I could barely make out anything on the bottom and my mask kept flooding with water as well. Well, I learned a valuable lesso...

t$ actually got to chez weezil on time today because of the excitement over the plans for the day. We were going exploring to secure a new racking grounds. Surely there were more areas of the river laden with fossil deposits!

We loaded our scuba gear (including my new BC!) into the canoe and headed up river from the launching site. The first new deep bend we passed was the first tested. The bottom was completely blown out. The onl...

I had a group of really good friends on the charter boat but the weather was lousy so I took them to a river near New Bern to try for some auriculatus teeth.  They loaded up on the bottles.  I found 2 teeth and a GAT!

I'll be turning it in to the Sherriff's Department next time I am in the area.

I never expected to find anything like this. When I first saw this thing underwater it was huge! The only small flaw is minor feeding damage to the tip, but I don’t care because everything else on the tooth rules. The serrations, root, bourlette, and cusps on this tooth are awesome! I love the color too! This is by far the best angy I’ve ever found to date.

Here is a pic of the shark teeth that we found just in July 07 on the river.  I also have horse teeth and other fossils that I need to get on line with. 

Another archaeocete tooth from the Edisto river. I found this tooth about one minute before the complete specimen. Based upon the enamel section, this is also a large molar. DW has a similar piece from a past dive trip.

With summer winding down and the statistical peak of tropical storm season approaching, I felt another hunt in the Edisto was needed. I called up DW to see if he was able to collect, and after a resounding “yes”, a trip was underway. I met up with DW at his crib to view his latest serrated object from the river. “The prize” beauty angustiden was over 3” and freshly washed out from the Chandler Bridge. At that instant I decided the majority of my day would be spent fanning san...

This was our 4th trip on the river.  We found area just behind a outcroping of old limestone sea floor bed.  Three other nice MEGS went to the neighbor and his son that same day.  Two mammoth tooth sections were also found in the same area. 

The lack of quality, or any arrowheads for that matter, is what got me into looking for shark teeth.  Last week, while looking for giant megs,  I finally found my first Maryland point. 

Its made from a poor quality material, most likely Argolite, but the craftsmanship looks good.  Had the Indian who made this had access to good quality flint, like you find in New York, this would have been a very nic...

It was my Niece's 1st Birthday last weekend so early Friday afternoon   I packed the kids into the car so we could complete the 9 hour trek to NJ before it got too late. We stayed at my Mother's in Lakewood which is just a stone's throw from the fertile fossil grounds of NJ and with a four hour window Saturday morning I couldn't pass up the opportunity to expand my NJ collection.

My daughter Juli and I arrived at the stream at ...

Two sharp angys from the Edisto.

My last day of the three day fossil binge was a full day in the Edisto River. After RD made a handsome contribution to support our local community’s infrastructure he met up with myself and DW. We geared up rather quickly as the sun baked down. This was our last BRFC hunt with the mighty Digr during his SC fossil-fest, so I hoped his presence would bring me fortune one more day. We trekked up to our collecting spot and settled in by fanning around gravel beds. I started on my...

I decided it was time to make the 8 hour drive to the Edisto to see if I could find any of the nice Oligocene teeth I have been seeing and hearing about for the last 15 years or so. I had no idea where to find the boat ramps along the river so I asked DW if he could point me in the right direction. He gave me the location of one ramp and so I began my journey with full tanks and high hopes. The trip began around 1 AM on Thursday the 9th, and I drove for several hours...

"If I did not have to eat, I would never leave." Famous words of da fossz in reference to the Edisto river, uttered several years ago still ring true. On the second day of da fossz's visit, we decided to hit the river in the afternoon to spend a few quality hours collecting in a fantastic location.

We were all business on this hunt. No messing around. Suit up, get in, find teeth. I was in a rich area with a thick gravel bed. I fanned the s...

This is my second Oligocene P. Benedini from the Edisto. Consider how many trips in the river and the number of these teeth that come out. A nice find today!!

Day 1 PM and day 2 entailed myself and DW exploring the lowcountry for new sites after the exercusion with PB. Well, we went to three old spots and one new one. This was a strange two days. At the first two old spots the teeth were limited despite downpors; DW got one keeper angy. I ended up with a decent arrowpoint, except for a dinged tip. The third old spot was the Edisto River. DW racked in two nice points and one is a superhero. I found my own keeper: my second ever Olig...

After the big Williamsburg trip, we hit Moe’s to celebrate the hunt. While there, we surmised that it might be a good time to check out a rumor about an old site with all the rain during the day. With the blessing of my wife, we were off to hunt the evening away.

We arrived to a freshly dug pond without footprints. I cannot describe how fantastic that feeling is! The prospect of big megalodon teeth just lying out in the open made me smile. We walked piles, fields, an...

We had a big rainstorm yesterday on the way home from our collecting in Williamsburg county. The whole lowcountry got drenched, and that means good land collecting. Da fossz was down for the continuing RivrDigrFest 07 activities, but today, even though we celebrated the digr, we could not collect with him. We would be granted an audience the next day.

Our first stop was to the Yellow ditch. Our personal racking grounds, until recently anyway! We have been unchallenge...

Quite a few croc teeth. This photo shows the quantity of croc material at this site.

A beautiful example of an extant great white. This one is case-worthy.

A large specimen from an extant great white. A small ding on the tip is the only flaw.

RivrDigrFest 07 raged on without me as work and family duties let me be a grown up for a few days. When Saturday arrived, I had the blessing of my better half to scour the bottom of the river for goodies. I could hardly wait because rivrdigr and scubapaul have been rackin for days. I haven't been in Beaufort too many times, but the prospect of serrated beauties at the bottom is inticing. I was excited to go, but nervous about this dive.

What, me...