I hit a choptank st. marys beach last saturday. Max and I got down there early and it was a blowout. The best find of the day was his 2.5 inch mako. Way up on the beach. I would have never seen it. I found a few makos and a weird little tooth. dont have a picture right now.

The detecting finds are from today. Maine militia button and my first 69 cal 3 ringer.

Thinking about the beach tomorrow but high tides in the morning. Not sure if it will be w...

I got out to the beach yesterday and was the first car there (my first time ever having that happen).  It was high tide and the tide was going to start dropping later in the morning so my strategy was to bust my butt to go as far as I can and pick up the easy teeth as I go but keeping an eye out everywhere for a nice big med or mako, then work my way back as the tide falls and be much more slow and methodical.  My thinking was that as others arrived I'd be c...

Hey long time no see guys...It all started on friday after work. It was a really nice day outside so I just couldnt wait for the weekend. I met johnny on the beach....It was a rough collecting. Some good stuff to look through but not 20 tons of it. I think my best find was a broken hemi. ..Those teeth will not be posted.

Saturday I did a mini choptank walk. I met a guy from the fossil forum..forgot his name. He did quite well..no megs f...

Ok, like some of you, I have finds from '09 that I never got around to posting.  As I go collecting each week, when I come home with the goods, I rinse them off and sort out the better specimens and let them dry on a paper plate.  After a wile I have several of these paper plates stacked on top of each other or piled around on my desk/table.  I love going collecting, but I hate having to put stuff away, something my wife can attest to.  Any...

My daughter and I traveled to Calvert Cliffs last month and found temperatures in the teens and a blow out tide.  There were some collectors there prior to our arrival so the pickings were slim, but our late start unfortunately was unavoidable.  I did manage to find a nice cow shark tooth and a squalodon tooth (chipped though).  She found an awesome mako and about 10 teeth to my one.  The vert pictured has some nice bite marks on it, so tha...

Ive been waiting for weather like last weekend for a long time. Combined with the beach it made for 100% prime megalodon collecting conditions.

My first 4 incher though broken is what it is.... one hell of a tooth for the cliffs. Ill find the missing root lobe one day.

In 2 days about (5.5 hours combined) I saw 24 different megs. Its been sick! 

Ok, so no Megs in quite a while, but honestly, I'm hoping to find something rare and spectacular, and hopefully soon!  I've been hitting my favorite beach off and on for the last couple months since the $9 fee ended on Labor Day.  I always bring my 2'x2' box screen because this beach is so picked over.  There have literally been times where I would go home empty handed if it weren't for doing some sifting.  I did manage to sift some materia...

Hey guys. I have some interesting thing to show. Last weekend was the BOMB. In this post there are 2 trip to the cliffs. And 2 metal detecting trips. The largest mako pictured is 2 1/8. awesome Calvert formation mako. My friend Abe found a beautiful meg right beside my pile...sob. The rough looking coin is actually a 1755 king george copper penny or half penny. My oldest yet.

The word on...

The teeth were scarce and there were a lot of other hunters but I did manage a pair of Makos, a nice upper and lower.  Seems to be my theme lately.

I'm sitting on my bed right now as I write this post up...all I can hear and think about is that gusting wind outside. It is coming from the wrong direction but the weather is slowly changing guys. I CANT WAIT.

This post once again represents another 3 trips to the bay. The first one was to the cabins. There wasn't to much found except for about 10 small teeth. You can see them in the top right part of the main picture. There's only 6 p...

posting the last 2 trips. The tide has been decently calm and low. The Monday trip I found the big blue mako in about a foot of water. Still alot of sand in some places. although in other places sand has vanished up the cliff face. The best find isn't in the pictures. Theres a certain spot where you can only collect at during blowout tides because theres never a beach. Well we decided to keep walking down because the tide was so low. And I saw something that reminded me of Aurora. An un...

This post represents 5 trips to the bay. I managed to find 3 megs all of which were under 1 inch. But a meg is a meg.! A nice cow shark and some commons. The tides have been higher and the jellyfish are out in large numbers. Just wait until mid August/ September the bite flays will be out...I've been ran off the beach more times then I can count by those suckers.

   The metal object in the last 2 pict...

This time of year teeth slow down. Tides are higher. More people walk the beaches. This post is actually my last 3 trips.

Last Friday I went to the northern end of the Calvert formation. Nothing exciting except 2 nudists on the beach. There was a bunch of tiny treasures found. Hammerheads. Threshers, and a symphseal contortus. Also a beautiful cow shark.

The m...

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Being that my Internet has been down for about 2 weeks now I haven't had time to post this trip. It started with some scattered showers at work. Despite the weather I wanted to try my luck at the beach. It had been almost a month since my last trip and I was hoping something new fell. Johnny met me in the parking lot and we walked down. We were finding some ordinary stuff when I noticed a new fall. Not to big but perfect size. All the RIGHT  mat...

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. 

Around this time of year when the west winds come and go so frequently I start the choptank walk. Normaly a trip here may turn up a mako tooth, maybe a good hemi, and a few smaller teeth. Relitivly poor collecting conditions, fair at best. 1-31-09 the wind and tide were in my favor. The catch of the day was a beautiful dagger lower mako. I believe (Z17). The one just to the right of it is the same color. Im assuming from the same layer. The cliffs were ...

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. 

Felt good to get out last Saturday after a long work week.  The fresh air, sunrise on the water, and a few nice teeth made for a nice outing.  No big showy Megs or anything real rare, however, I found an odd shaped porpoise/dolphin tooth with a really long narrow pointy crown.  Not sure if I've ever found one like this before, but if I have, I certainly don't remember it so perhaps this species is a bit more uncommon.  Also found two nice s...

Hit the beach early today and caught a nice sunrise.  Not many teeth since there was a lot of sand piled up.  Had to resort to sifting again - man that water is cold on your hands.  Did manage to catch a decent mako before a wave covered it back up with sand.  Also found a nice small posterior thresher and the usual small stuff.

Daryl.&l...

In our little adventure up to MD we hit Brownies for a day but the tides and sand didnt work to well with us and we didnt find that much.  One of the spots that Obsessed1 took us to ended up being just about the same but my wife did find a nice posterior and a decent croc tooth.  Those were the finds of the day.  I hope we can get back up there when the conditions are better. 

The sand is finally starting to go away a little bit. Winds are great. Im lovin it about now.

The megs are (2 3/4)---(2 13/16)*---(1 7/8)---(1 9/16)---(1 1/4)

The makos are all around the 1.5 inch range.

Great big Hemis and theres alot of them right now.

Nothing to out of the ordinary.

Beaches (3)-(5)

       As I've traveled around the country, collecting for the museum, I'm always saddened when I come upon a site where thieves have taken fossils illegaly. These thefts are increasing in numbers and as a result many state, and federal, laws have been proposed to prohibit collecting fossils. As usual, the few have made it bad for the rest of us. A good example is from a site near where I live. Someone had dug into the ...

Man it felt good to get out this morning for some collecting at my favorite beach.  I knew there probably wouldn't be much beach to search since I was going close to high tide, but I didn't care.  I ended up doing some sifting as usual and found a nice little gem.  Below is the pic of a fairly small stingray barb.  It's  only 1.5" long, but it has nice translucent red color.  It's 99% ...

Wednesday-Thursday last week I was soaking up the teeth from the low tide.(2) I was able to get a nice mako 2 1/8 .

 A pathological lower mako. Its the one with the serious hook on it. A nice cow, a couple ear bones.

A really weird bone. circular in shape. Very thin...No bone marrow visible on the underbelly...Odd.

The coolest...

Its that time of the year again. Or what I like to call the westerles...

The pictures represent 2 trips to the same beach. (3)

The first meg is a beautiful cream color, sharp, and relatively undamaged (1 7/8).  The trip also came with a couple nice makos. A sweet cow and a few hemi's.

The second trip yielded an awesom...

I took a day off work yesterday with aspirations of hitting the Maryland Aquia Formation in hopes of finding some Otodus teeth, but something instead changed my plan in my feable brain to head for the Bay, so I did.  I had the beach all to myself all day long until I passed someone on my way back and by that time I was done.  I didn't find any megs, but I did find some pretty neat stuff for my collection, including a lower symphyseal cow shark tooth, a coupl...

  I headed to the Bay this morning (Sunday), hoping against reason for something good to turn up.  I was primarily sifting gravel for a few hours, and was finding some nice small teeth, including a large cowshark upper parasymphyseal, a few small but sweet hemis, and a thresher tooth.  I started to head back to my car, but I ran into Tony and Bob. 

  I had never done any digging in the fall piles befo...

I visited my brother in Baltimore this past weekend with plans of doing a “dig” with him and the infamous Daryl on Sa...

The first few pics are of the beach area the morning of Hannah hitting Maryland and its early affects on the waves.  I left early to avoid the major winds, rain, and potential storm surge.  Take a look at the waves hitting the cliffs.  That was early, so just imagine what it looked like a few hours later when the wind tripled in speed and the rain downpoured!  Then compare that to the last few photo's the next morning...what a beautiful sun...

I took my family for a weeks vacation at Matoaka Cabins. The mission was to find each of them their first Megs! The first day gave us nothing but a few Hemis and other small teeth. The next time we hunted NSO (not-so-obsessed) my fiance' found a nice 1 3/4" lateral. One down two to go! We went to another spot where my daughter found a sweet 2 1/2" Meg with bite marks on it! Only one more to go... The last day we were there we stopped and started hunting. Several hou...

  Even though Tropical Storm Hannah wasn't as severe around here as was forecast, I still had to go out to the Bay on Sunday to see if the storm had improved the hunting conditions.  The weather was great, and I couldn't get there until about noon, so I wasn't surprised to see the parking lot completely filled at Brownies Beach.  As I walked down to the beach, I was hoping that the water was low enough to allow me to get t...

I had just finished my first pass down the beach and I had one small, beat up meg and a few tiny teeth...that's it.  I found virtually nothing.  I am not complaining about the meg,  but when Im the first one on the beach I was hoping for more.  On the way back the waves picked up a little bit and teeth started to show up, although not in great numbers.

One spot produced the two trip ...