This was another fun Lafarge hunt. I took my little brother and we were ready to find some teeth. Through out the day as I hunted I met a few nice people that are fans of BRFC which is always awesome! I did run into da fossz in the quarry and witnessed the ground shot of a nice ric that he found. It wasn’t long until I would bag a nice small ric of my own.

This past week, I've been hunting with the Dutch guys on their vacation. I couldn't stay with them all day long, but I tried to hunt with them some everyday. During that time, I saw many awesome finds and enjoyed watching my new friends dance with joy over some of the spectactular fossils they found. On their last day fossil hunting, I snagged the weezling out of school so he could meet my guests who had come from so far away. I hoped he would gain learn something from the school of lif...

As I sit in my hotel room, I can hardly wait to hunt Lee Creek tomorrow morning with Bullshark and a few more friends all the way from The Netherlands! Anyway, I was just looking at photos and I realized that I have a post from February that I never made. So now I have something fossil related to do while I wait to do more fossil related things tomorrow.

This trip was from an old location. Its not very productive, but a...

This is a trip from a few weeks ago. I met up with Weez and his boys who were already digging away at the spot. It was a great day with awesome cool weather, but I can’t say the same for the teeth. Every shark tooth seemed to be thrashed at this spot and incomplete, but it was nice to be finding a good bit of quantity for digging.

Today as I was cleaning the fossils from my latest shark tooth hunt at the yellow ditch, I looked upon the masses of teeth with whimsy and I wondered what it would be like if I weren't there to pick them up?

Only briefly could I bear to think of the sadness of these rocks with no one to appreciate them as they sat and slowly weathered away to nothingness in the dingy recesses of the creek. Rampant pollution of the waterway and prolonged exposure to the toxin...

I have been hunting a lot, even though I haven't been posting a lot. This is the sum of 5 hunts - about 15 hours of digging. I've known about this spot for a while, but the layer is so deep and the digging is so hard that I haven't hunted it for years. But I'm in famine mode now, so its back to the old spots.

The good thing about this place is the colors on the teeth - they are amazing!Plus there are big teeth there, but then comes...

We had a quick rain shower the other day so I drove down to my favorite ditch after I dropped the weEzlinG off at school. There weren't any footprints so I knew I had a chance at something good. About halfway through the hunt I spied a reef shark tooth fully exposed in the bottom of the ditch. Sweet. Its nice to rack when there is still more ditch to scour.

This place is hit or miss, but its better where the oligocene formations are exposed so they can erode so the b...

I called up DW earlier in the week to see if he wanted to do some collecting. I arrived at his pad on time today! The first place we checked out was void of fossils. Then we headed back to an old trusty spot that we both knew had potential. This is probably my favorite spot to dig because when it comes to finding teeth with a combination of about a hundred different colors. This is the spot that never fails to produce them. It’s not ...

Like clockwork, the dry season has ended and the rainy season has started. The lowcountry of SC gets all kinds of rain this time of year, and even though it kills diving, it makes land collecting great. This hunt is from the beginning of the month, after the first really big rainfall.

I dropped the weezling off at school and he reluctantly got out of the truck because he knew where I was going. I loaded up on the bug spray because the mosquitos are the wors...

After the big Williamsburg trip, we hit Moe’s to celebrate the hunt. While there, we surmised that it might be a good time to check out a rumor about an old site with all the rain during the day. With the blessing of my wife, we were off to hunt the evening away.

We arrived to a freshly dug pond without footprints. I cannot describe how fantastic that feeling is! The prospect of big megalodon teeth just lying out in the open made me smile. We walked piles, fields, an...

It was the worst of collecting, it was the best of collecting. OK, it was not a Dicken’s novel exactly, but it sure felt that way at LaFarge today. I spent the first few hours watching the other collectors rack in the fossils while I saw layer devoid of fossils. I met up with the PhatBoyz who had made a one-day journey from Maryland, and they were bagging teeth at a madding pace. Due to the large mass of collectors, the ne...

The Fosslin' Floridian himself, rivrdigr, is living the dream fossil hunting in South Carolina non-stop for the next two weeks while he vacations. There will be diving galore, but today, the official first day of the fest was Lafarge day.

I ran into my fossil hunting friends pretty early in the day. I saw da fossz, rivrdigr and his new dive buddy, the phat boys (who racked!), and many other friends who I only see when their eyes are on the...

Just around the corner from my house there has been a building boom. Back in 2005 when the first retention pond was dug, we had a really good hunt where I found my first and only purple megalodon tooth and my son found his largest meg still to this date! We were the only ones to dig that pond, and we only got one day because it was finished and filled up so quickly.

Luckily for us, another lot of land was cleared and a little pond went in right next to the one from a...

I just returned from a wonderful week of vacation with my family on Hilton Head Island.  We had great weather and good times,  plus my wife even let me go fossil hunting on a few occasions!  

I was told that Hilton Head was a relativly new island (geologically speaking!), but I still wanted to take a look in the mornings for teeth.  I managed to get out out twice, and...

The second ‘07 hunt at LaFarge was set for this Saturday and boy was I primed. We had two good rains a few days before the dig so I envisioned my fossil bag laden with rics. I actually arrived on-time for the first time in about 5 years and the news was we could park near the active mining area. I shimmied out of my truck and hit the open pit to find nice overburden spread-out in a small area. All the collectors ransacked ...

I found a new spot that was only open for 3 days. The crew was peeling off some clay and replacing it with sand to improve drainage in preparation to build a new building. They had to dig a little deeper on one side and they hit the layer. That was Thursday, and the kids and I showed up with only an hour of daylight. Friday, we were a bit more prepared and we arrived to find a large trench with layer exposed the whole way. We dug until dark with the intent to dig all weekend if necessar...

Hi Everybody! I've been talking about the new site for almost 2 years, and its finally finished. This is the first post I've tried to make so forgive me if something seems amiss. But enough of the boring Web Site banter, its time to talk about the fossils.

This trip was from about a month ago. My kids and I got the low down on some new fossil hunting turf and this is the third time we hit it. There was some rain on Monday or Tuesday and we hit i...