Work brought me to Kentucky last week, just south of Cincinnati / across the Ohio River.   Because of airfare costs / logistics I ended up making the eight hour journey north via vehicle.  The only upside was I got to drive through some beautiful states / areas (Interstate 40 west through the North Carolina mountains range, Tennessee and then up north on Interstate 75).  <...

This was a hard trip. Five hours of walking, wading through waste high creeks and cutting my leg on a submerged stump. Blood sweat and tears. DBTB

James City County.

This post is for a trip in November of 2008.  We hit the river and headed up North from the Arcadia boat ramp.  This was a very warm day with many gators seen on the banks. With our first stop in the old honey we found a few nice finds.

As my four year old son grows to assume his spot at the top of the food chain I feel compelled to take him deeper into the wild. Hs building instinct to hunt and gather (and fill his shark tooth jar) has begun to outweigh my fear of him becoming prey. His only fossil hunting experience thus far has been limited to the beach at the Peace River Campground where he routinely "racks" the tiny teeth that only his relatively new eyes can pick out in the phosphate speckled sand. The ...

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After our first trip, we were biting at the bit to go back to GMR. I kept having dreams about finding teeth and more teeth. I couldn’t get the Run out of my mind. I had built our new “Super Sifter 1000” and we were ready to put it to the test.

Last time, we stayed at the City Hotel and Bistro, so we booked the same room to stay there again. If you don’t mind the noise, then it’s a great place to stay. Our room had a Jacuzzi tub in it which...

Today I met up with Sawblade for a early morning hunt. The weather was great and the teeth where plenliful. Sawblade found the nicest tooth of the day, It was a little chipped up but still a great mako. I'm heading out to the Potomac early tomorrorw to take advantage of this full moon tide. I hope the storm we had last week kicked up the beach a bit. Thanks for checking in. Jake

First I would like to thank Curtis Ormond, the guides and all the other people who help make collecting at this site a possibility. Without them we would never have the chance to enter the mine and collect such wonderful fossils. Thank You!!
The day started out raining but not too cold. The view from the top of the ramp took my breath away...the collecting area is huge!!!! As I walked into the mine I saw hill after hill of great looking Yorktown and Pungo. The area h...

Wish i cold have been there when my wife found this one.  Just beautiful!!!!!

Well we all met up in the contractor parking lot to a gloomy day.  We waited for the bus with anticipation of getting to hunt a brand new area.  Then the bad news came in...the bus was broke down.  But I would like to thank Curtis Ormand for bringing out a couple of vans and another bus so we were able to hunt.  We didnt end up getting in until the last  group and by the time we got to the ramp everyone els...

I haven't been out much, but did manage to sneak in a trip to the Bay a few weeks ago I guess for a half day.  The tides were higher than normal.  I didn't find anything big but I did manage to find some pretty cool stuff including a nice cow shark and what I think might be a squalodon tooth (please let me know if you think that it is, thx).  I had some fun out there and have been craving to go ever since. 

Ok so I got to the park early as it was going to be a nice day and it was but not for teeth. Looks like govinn has grabbed them all up while he was here last weekend. I did find a few he left behind.  I also decided to stop in Hopewell to look and found some(see arrows).Hope your day is better than mine.Still looking for the big one.

I think the fish is a gar . Nice rack of teeth on it.

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On Thursday I hit the beach for a quick hunt.  I didn't find any monster teeth, but I did find a Squalicorax tooth.  There have been three of these Cretaceous Crow Shark teeth found along this beach by BRF members just in the past few months.  I also found a shamer of a squalodon tooth- the root measures just a hair under 2 inches, but the crown is completely gone.  Plus the coolest chunk of fossil wood I've ever found.

Well, here is my first trip report.  Some of my hunting is in rivers where I shovel and sift out in the water.  I also occasionally stroll along the banks of the James River looking for arrowheads, shark teeth and the many other neat fossils around there.  Only one of my buddies is into fossil hunting, but they are always amazed when I show them my finds and I answer thier questions about how the fossils got to where they are now (nowhere near an ocea...

The fossilin has been a little sparse lately, so I decided to take the Fossz boys artifact hunting. This time we hit some older spots I had hunted BC (before children); about 9 years ago. Some were a little overgrown, but there was one spot available. It had rained the night b...

This is my first trip post, so I'm going to try to give it my best. I've already completed an entire trip post (complete with pics and everything). I clicked "update" and my computer froze and wouldn't let me go back, so I lost everything.... GRRR!!

With that off my chest, I'll retype everything. Here it goes...

I'm working in NC right now and got invited back home to go on a fishing trip. I took it as a great opportunity to do some foss...

I stood up from my desk the other day and declared "I'm going fossil hunting." Then I left and went fossil hunting. Its about a 10 minute walk from my house to my favorite spot, so I had some time to ponder the legalities of hunting fossils in Summerville and specifically how the spot I was walking towards would be affected. I have been hunting this spot for years, and now it ...

In keeping with the Super Bowl Week football theme, I was going thru my box of Summerville booty and found some interesting things that I forgot to post. Asmall fish vert that has a tumor attached. When I found it looked like a phosphate nodule was stuck to it, but it was part if the vert. The other good items were coporite, a little piece of jaw bone and a large Barracuda canine tooth.

I made a solo trip to the Run last weekend for a group dig with my fellow brethren, the East Coast Fossil Club which congregated at the Green Springs Park bright and early last Saturday at 8:30 a.m.   I would have beaten my “neighbor” Reeltooth and his son with our same 3 hour drive if it wasn’t for my quick stop at McDonald’s for two sausage/egg/cheese McMuffins (fuel for shoveling).

We all geared up and headed upstream in search of many fossil f...

Good day in the Potomac. Nice Hemi, busted Meg and a Croc tooth.

DBTB Looking good. 

My mid-winter trip to Summerville started by going to the Lowcountry Fossil Show at Cypress Gardens on January 26. After seeing old friends and fellow fossil collectors, I quickly made plans with Sharkdentist, Aeromike and Mudkicker for some serious digging. We went to a couple of lands sites, but only came up with a few small teeth. The rest of the week I was on my own. Saturday, January 31 was the next day we could all get out. I found my first Notornchus Primigeni...

I had off today and hit the beach around noon. It was windy and cold with flurries on and off. The dog and I walked and walked in search of one nice tooth. I found a few teeth but the tide was coming in fast. Feet and hands numb I trudged down the beach. Then I saw it lying in some shells at the edge of the waves. I remember saying out loud "that’s awesome" and snatching it up. Having forgotten all about my cold hands ...

I went down to Brownies for a quick hunt on Friday.  I couldn't spend as much time hunting as I would have liked, but I walked away with some nice treasures, including a cervical vert with some of the processes still attached.  Also found two nice Cowshark teeth, a shamer lower Mako that still measures 1-1/2 inches, and an unusual porpoise/dolphin tooth with a tip that curves nearly 90 degrees. 

Work once again brought me to the GMR area (Kinston) last Friday.  Explai...

Found a nice Mako today. I'm going again tomorrow so keep checking in. 

Saturday morning we headed out and still the cold persisted. But there was hope, it was supposed to warm into the 40’s by afternoon. As always my goal at the Eocene exposures at LaFarge is to find my first Auriculatus. But again today it was not to...

This was the coldest day I’ve hunted teeth on. I was told that they had dug out a new area and that is where I spent the day walking around. I ran into da fossz and showed off my sweet invertebrate finds! Then we started looking for good places to dig. After some trial and error we finally located some quality green cap to dig in. The green cap in this area was the thickest I’ve ever seen it in the quarry. I witnessed da fossz dig up...

Today I took a quick trip out to the York River. I don't hunt there often because I rarely find much, I think my record up to this point was two in a trip, with a skunk or two in between. This is the most teeth I've found in the York in one day. My father used to find some really nice ones out here but I'm not sure where. Thats what keeps me coming out here. I know they're  there, I just have to keep looking. 

I had a pretty good day on the Potomac on Saturday.  I didn't find any Paleos or huge Otodus teeth, but I did get a few Otodus in better than average condition.  I think that the neatest tooth I found was an Otodus with some unique feeding damage.  The shark must have bit down on some very dense bone, because the cutting edge on one side has been completely scraped off.  What makes it really cool is that the cusp is still intact, so the sha...

I hit the beach early this morning hopeing to find some scraps worked up from the storm we had the other day. It looks like someone beat me to it. I didn't find much execpt for a nice Hemi and a busted Meg.

I got a tip about a new spot out in  JC Co. I'm going Monday so...    we will see.

Exhausted from the holidays, I needed some fossil vacation time from my holiday vacation time.  After fighting tooth and nail for a kitchen pass, or should I say pleading and begging, my kitchen pass would be granted if my honey-do list (helping in t...