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Old trip from february.
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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There was a cold northwest wind a first light. I was the crazy boy in his waders piled with layers of clothing and just as happy as could be. The first thing came from the swwet meg staring me in the face laying on some clay pebbles about two feet from where the normal surf line would be.....WOULD BE.....but today the wind had dragged the tide out about 50 feet. The beach was plentiful with tons of lil teeth I found over 300 teeth in total 30-40 tigers and contortus. The super nice thin... |
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A first from the bay for me
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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Just the other day I tried a new spot a little further down the cliffs than I usually look for fossils. At first I thought I had wasted my time only 5 small teeth after almost a mile of walking then I came to a area of cliffs with the water splashing up against them. I pushed on wading in waist deep water. After a hundred yards there was a small stretch of beach with huge blocks that had fallen from the cliffs. I kept looking in the surf and still had found very little. Then I glanced u... |
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The luck of the waves
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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This post is from a little while ago. I went to my favorite beach and was lucky enough to be first. I found only some small worn teeth while walking down the mile or so to the end of accessible beach. On the way back up I passed 4 other collectors. Just after passing the last of them and being almost all the way back to the beginning I found a really nice Mako and then only a few steps further I saw the tip of a root sticking up out of the gravel. I knew it wasn’t a shark too... |
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Extended lunch break
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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Here some finds from an extended lucnch break. Every week I have one day that takes me close enough to hit the fossil beaches, and on this day a variety of neat items were found.
A porpoise tooth, ray scute, a couple of half way decent makos and snagletooth teeth are the highlights along with half of what would have been a nice 3" meg .&n... |
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Matoakas good for something.
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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I'm Tony and this will be my 1st post. I do all my hunting in the bay area but do to the lack of a camera I can only post certain trips.
On this day I went alone down to a place called Matoaka Cabins. I had been there before and if your the type of person who likes to comb the beach for fossils...STAY HOME. Or go somewhere else. To ... |
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Cow and meg
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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I decided to try a trip to a different part of the bay. My normal spot is getting hit so hard it really has been very poor for a couple of months now.
I broke out the little boat that has been dormant in my garage for a couple of years now. Had to get a new battery and put some fresh gas in it. Like my Honda CRV, the Honda outboard fired up like I had ran it yesterday! I like my kayak but traveli... |
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Paleoscan is my lucky charm
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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Paleoscan, I and our better halves got together for the Labor Day weekend for three days of fun along the Calvert Cliffs. The wives spent lots of their free time with our jet ski and we used it when they weren't for quick trips to exposures. Since it was a Holiday weekend and the beaches would be crawling with people we decided to go to spots that you could only get to by water. On Sunday we headed south to Chopt... |
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Slow on the bay
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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This post actually represents three trips to the bay!!
The first trip was about three weeks ago and was a complete bust. I did finally get a chance to meet Daryl, the Daryl from this site. This was cool, its always good getting some pointers from a bay veteran, but its not always good following this veteran down the beach...slim pickins!! |
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First point from bay
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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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... |
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PCS warm up from 5-11-07
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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I was leaving for PCS in the evening and thought I would give my eyes just a little more training. I headed down the beach and after 15 minutes I saw the tip of a root sticking up out of some gravel. I pulled it out slowly to find a nice meg. Later it would measure 2.5 inches. I continued on and at the next good pile of gravel found a piece of a Squaladon. The day was rounded out by an internal clam mold and a nice vert. Along with the small stuff. Good Hunting obsessed1 ... |
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