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family fossiling trip
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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family fossils has never really worked out for us, the first trip we really never found anything and the last time we tryed to go inour boat and my mom was afraid that the boat was about to sink in the waves so we scratched the trip. This time i was expecting the same reaction from my mom but she had no problem about the waves this time, I decided to head ashore and try to lower the weight on the boat, the beach leading to our spot is always boring to walk but as long as i got to fossil i was h... |
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My first skull..From trip on 4-4-07 and 4-6-07 By obsessed1
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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I was able to leave work early so I figured I would run down to the cliffs for a quick look around. I didn't find much on the way down the beach just the normal small stuff and with the rather large waves didn't figure to do much better on the way back. But then I saw some bone in a block of clay. I took a better look and realised that this was at least part of a skull. The tide was... |
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Sweet Megalodon from Chesapeake Bay!
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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Its taken me just about six months since I started shark tooth hunting to crack the 3" mark for the bay. I have come very close on two occasions and did best it with a tooth from the Potomac in Virginia, but it was badly worn by the river.
My latest treasure checks in at 3 3/16". I know this is not a particularly big tooth for some of the southern locations, but for Mary... |
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Dog days of summer
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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I have learned a lot about "toothin" this year. I think one of the more valuable lessons learned is the winter and early spring rule. The water is colder, and you need to wear waders, but the water is also much clearer and you don't have to battle all the people looking for that big one.
Here are the results of two small trips. The first was a quick "lunch" to a new are... |
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Beats watching T.V.
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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I hit my favorite beach the other day only to find that I was probably the third person to go down it. Luckly for me the tide was still going out and the conditions seemed to be getting better by the minute.
This beach is my favorite because if you really look close and take your time you can find a great variety of treasures, even being "third up to bat".
The water wa... |
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A megalodon is a megalodon (6-8-07)
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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Wasn't much around and the tide was high because it was one of those transitional tides where they seem to be all weird. I was lucky enough to find some huge gravel sections and put my rake to the test. No megalodons but a 2 nice makos and a nice hemi. were found which were my best fossils for the whole day. My dad on the other hand had himself a small megalodon. For my dad he neer likes to sit still and wait for something to come to him so he started to head down the beach and over the large tr... |
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Fathers day finds
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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My wife asked me what I wanted to do this fathers day, so I took full advantage of this opportunity. I called my dad up and we both headed out to the bay to just relax.
Fishing, exploring, testing out his new homemade potato launcher (this thing is REALLY cool), and fossil hunting were all in the plans.
I timed it so my father would drop me off at a totally new cliff ... |
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Reading The Cliffs
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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Friday, 8 June 2007 - I finally got a 3rd opportunity to go to the cliffs and finally started having better luck. It started with finding a pretty nice vert right at the start followed by a detached growth plate. I'm not sure exactly why, but I have been really looking to find one of these after my brother started pulling them out of the ground down there in South Carolina. Soon after, I found a very nice fish vertebrae while all along the way finding the smalli... |
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never hurts to repeat your steaps 5-29-07
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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The day seemed perfect for a fossil hunt. I headed right my father headed left. Usually by this tiem some local person would be reaching the location that my fatuer and i were at but today no one came(for now). I found a few nice teeth the nicest was a croc. tooth or was it. As i walked in the direction of my dad i picked up some nice makos just uncovered after my dad passed them. Right before i got to my dad a tip off a croc. tooth washed up in front of me, i get to my dad just after that ... |
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dug up a cow 5-13-07
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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we didnt find much in the means of good teeth. There ware tracks from someone who had been there before us so thats probley why the sea didnt provide as much as we wished. We tried everything to mabey with a little luck have something pop up for us to grab and make the day seem better then it would be, but no luck. The gravel was there but there were no large teeth in the spots. There were some smaller makos and a few hemi's but nothing shocking. After a while i got bored and went out looki... |
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