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Big rock
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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Mid april in Maryland marks the great annual migration.Hordes of men with large boats pour into the state cloging every boat ramp marina and water way.For a short time fossil hunting becomes a contact sport between trucks,trailers and trolling boats. We hit the marina early and after a little hold up got to the beach two hours before low tide.With calm winds and waves under a foot for the last week, pickings were slim.After walking the beach high and low twice ,the only large tooth I had was a ... |
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Chesapeake Bay Trip 4/18/08
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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On Friday I found myself with the unexpected opportunity to go tooth hunting all day. I got to the beach at about 6:30 AM, about 3 1/2 hours before low tide, and there was nobody else there yet! Unfortunately, the conditions were pretty lousy. The water was absolutely still, with no wave motion at all, so anything under the sand was going to stay there today. I did manage to find a few decent Makos, the lar... |
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Hemi's from the bay
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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High tides and the threat of storms kept us off the beach on sat ,but on sunday morning things looked a little better.We got to the beach a little late and were happy to have it all to ourselves ,even through it looked like the high tide had left sand behind instead of teeth.We did manage to find a nce color meg a shade under two inches and a few good makos but the real surprize was the hemi's.We found almost 80 of all sizes tossed out by the surf.We also found three partial ray plates incuding... |
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Yeah Baby!
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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My 2 month old daughter woke me up at 3:30 this morning, and after finally getting her back to sleep, I couldn’t get back to sleep myself. Well, as long as I’m up, I may as well hit the beach! I got there before sunrise, about 6:15 am, and still wasn’t the first one there! It was about 4 hours before low tide, though, and I knew that teeth would be washing out with every wave, so I wasn't worried about the other hunter. |
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a little late
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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We were adding some recent finds to a display case today and realized we had forgotten to post a trip report. We got to the beach early yet already we had three people working the beach in front of us. Overnight the winds had blown the tide out,but now the bay was calm and clear.We walked the wide shallow flats picking up verts and bone ,waiting on the people in front.All three had made it to a far at the far end of the beach and for what seemed like hours hoverd around it.Finally one by one th... |
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Always something new
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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Last weekend I spent about 5 hours on a beach…About 2.5 hours on sat and sun. I had a total disregard for time of day, tides, and winds all weekend. Didn’t check any weather reports I just thought the beach would produce something.
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Good finds can come in many size
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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This day did not start out like a normal fossiling day. We were plaining on going but the weather was not the best for taking the boat out but after about 5 hours the wind started to die down and we saw it as i sign to give it a try. When we first got into the water it still didnt look good but i wasnt about to turn around and give up on this trip i had a feeling that it was gonna be good. So we finally beach the boat and get out and start to walk the beach but the waves were so big that there r... |
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Golden
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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We headed to the beach at daybreak with someone walking just behind us . I hurried down the beach picking up teeth while trying to stay ahead.The beach looked perfect but by the end of the beach ,I had one large hemi the rest of the large teeth were broken. The one large mako was missing most of the root and the megs were small pieces. I took a little more time on the way back and after only fifty feet , I spotted a large tooth in the shallow water. It was an almost perfect 2 inch meg with a ni... |
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Goodies from the Bay
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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These teeth are from two trips to the Bay this week. On Wednesday, the forecast sounded good for a blowout tide, so I headed out around noon for the afternoon low, but the blowout didn't happen. I didn't find a whole lot, but I did get my largest Bay Mako to date. It's missing a root lobe, and the tip is chipped, but it still measures just over 2 inches.
I had much better luck yester... |
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Land Mammal tooth
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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Highlight of this trip was a land mammal tooth from zone 8. It's barely 1 cm square. Will be donated to the CMM and according to the author of a soon to be published paper on the land mammal fauna of the Calvert Cliffs it is the first recorded land mammal tooth found in zone 8. Preliminary ID is a deciduous peccary tooth.
Found a nice number bunch of one inch hemmies too.
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