I went to Summerville SC a couple of weeks ago with my dad and one of my fossil hunting friends. We spend two days in SC and had a very nice haul. We left at 6am and got there at 10:30 am. It was a long drive, but we talked about teeth to pass the time. First, we went to one of my friend's sites. It was probably the best site of the whole trip. I found my first angy there and I was pretty happy. I found a couple more surface collecting, but they were mostly broken. Next we went to...

It is hard to believe my fossil hunting hobby only began in earnest May of this year.   I am now hooked and spend much of my time looking.  I have graduated from land searches, having been SCUBA certified a few months ago thanks to lowcountrydiving, and have joined the ranks of murky river divers.  I have met some great new friends to enjoy my searches with.  I have searched hard in Charleston, Dorchester, and Colleton Counties and have had m...

da fossz, my kids, and I went fossil hunting in the Edisto river in South Carolina a couple of weeks ago. I found the usual assortment of angustidens, megalodon, mako, tiger, sand tiger, hemipristis shark teeth, ray plates, all of which I was glad to get. I also got a sailfish rostrum - an uncommon find. I also got two whale teeth. My best find came when I found a sand area a few inches deep and fanned to the ...

I arrived pretty early to this particular ditch, but not early enough.  Even though there was at least one set of foot prints, I pressed on in the hopes that something was missed.  For the most part I found a lot of broken teeth, though some were a decent size.  Then I spotted a 2 1/4" angy with great color and lightning.  This one also has more curve (see side picture) than any of my other an...

When I was a kid I used to curse the rain. What was I thinking? Rain is great! It poured again yesterday so guess where I went? Besides Moe's. Yep, the ditch. It makes me glad to be alive, Teeth everywhere and all I have to do is pick them up. My best find today was a stunning little angustidens right out of the layer. Beauty of a ground shot too! It still amazes me every time we go to this spot just how much there is to be found. It just keeps on producing and we keep on finding the fo...

I have been salivating at the sight of heavy equipment parked at a build site for weeks. I hoped they would dig because I had hunted a spot just 50 yards away with success in the late 1990's. One day on the way home from running errands, I saw the excavator in action digging a trench. As soon as the crew left, I was clear to hunt. First I scanned the entire trench for layer. The far end hit some chalky garbage, and that was where I was most hopeful for some fossils. I found a decent out...

Same story.  Heavy rain last night = I wake up early to hunt shark teeth

I never like the waking up early part, but I always like the hunting shark teeth part. As soon as I got to the creek I knew it was going to be a good day. I could tell the water got high from how bent over the weeds on the banks were. There was no part of the creek that would not have been rinsed by such a volume of water.

The deep parts were still cloudy, but for th...

Summerville had another big storm last night. I didn't think the weatherman could top the storm from two nights ago without some kind of tropical influence but I was wrong. Rain like that always calls for a trip to the creek near out house. Unfortunately I had a mid-morning meeting again so we had to get there early. I don't like getting there early because the mosquitos are bad and its too dark to see into the deeper spots of the creek so we always miss teeth. Regardless, early fossil ...

We got quite a thunderstorm last night that dumped over 2 inches of rain. The weezling and I were excited to finally get out and hunt - this waiting for the rain stuff is terrible but its all we have for now so we're going to enjoy it. With regular sticks in place of rakes we walked down into our favorite spot near our house for a great fossil hunt. The finds started almost right away. We always find a lot of shark's teeth here, and...

The weezil clan is going crazy with the fossil hunting lately. We're hitting old spots and having a great time, even though the finds aren't the best. We are really excited lately because we heard a rumor that a good new fossil hunting location is going to open up in the near future and the only way to pass the time is to hunt. It was an overcast day and it was hard to see into the water but megamouth and I still managed to do pretty well. The two right teeth on the to...

After a bountiful feast at Moe's, DW and I desided we needed to quit sitting around and go hunt fossils.  It was a few days after some heavy rain so we hit up a piece of ditch rarely visited by us, due to its lack in fossils.

DW was also pumped to film another one of his vids, so I humbly agreed to ajoin him on his quest. It was slow, fossils here and there but eventually we managed to aquire an exceptable amount of fossils. We left, never to return... until...

Megamouth and I got tired of sitting around the house so we decided to go down to the local watering hole and see what the rains washed out earlier this week. This spot takes a while to clear up enough when we get a lot of rain and today the deeper parts were still murky, but the shallow areas were accessible for our racking purposes.

Although we found a bunch of teeth, very few were complete. There are a number of reasons why - because of the initial excavation, bec...

Fossil hunting in Summerville isn't what it used to be. Now we're barely surviving, living on bread and water. When it rains we sit and stare out the window hoping that the shower will last long enough to wash out our ditches. We don't dig, we only surface collect so conditions have to be right to make it worth going. Well, today conditions were right and the weezling and I decided to go to a new spot we found a few weeks ago. Its actually not a new spot, but its new to us so we call it...

It was hot, mid 90s and with a heat index reportedly over 100.    This reminded me to invest in some summer hip boots / wa...

I got together yesterday with Sharkdentist and Aeromike for one last hunt before returing to Pennsylvania. Verts were the fossil of the day, 2 whale and a number of shark and fish. A piece of petrified wood is the first item in the top row and a piece of coporite takes center stage in the bottom row.

Bye for now to all my South Carolina friends, I'll be back for LaFarge in July.

We pulled into my driveway after the long ride home from Aurora last Sunday night. As soon as we got there, I saw a terraced look to my front yard caused by a torrential downpour, the kind that makes collecting fossils fun and easy if you know where to look. I knew then that I would be collecting the Yellow Ditch first thing Monday morning despite all the work waiting for me from a long weekend of neglect.

Monday was frigid for SC. The high was only in the upper 30s ...

In keeping with the Super Bowl Week football theme, I was going thru my box of Summerville booty and found some interesting things that I forgot to post. Asmall fish vert that has a tumor attached. When I found it looked like a phosphate nodule was stuck to it, but it was part if the vert. The other good items were coporite, a little piece of jaw bone and a large Barracuda canine tooth.

This was the coldest day I’ve hunted teeth on. I was told that they had dug out a new area and that is where I spent the day walking around. I ran into da fossz and showed off my sweet invertebrate finds! Then we started looking for good places to dig. After some trial and error we finally located some quality green cap to dig in. The green cap in this area was the thickest I’ve ever seen it in the quarry. I witnessed da fossz dig up...

My work recently brought me to Charleston, South Carolina and I thought to myself, “Isn’t there another ‘famous’ city down there…. Hmmmm…. Summerville…lol”.  So I got in touch with Ditchweezil to see if he was up for a dig.  Luckily our schedules worked out so I arrived Friday, late-morning at a gas station he designated to meet at. 

After being “patted down” for any GPS devices, I put on the blindfold he brought, spun around ten times and...

Sorry it took so long for me to get this post up but it’s better late then never. 

The day started off with us getting to the mine about 45 min before going in saying to ourselves that it was going to be a mud pit in there with all the rain that ...

The rain has been falling without end here in Summerville, South Carolina. I've been taking every opportunity to get out and hunt for shark teeth in my favorite dank holes. The yellow ditch is at the top of my list after a good drenching and the mosquitoes know it. As soon as I opened the door of my truck, I heard their buzzing descending on me like bombers. I was fully prepared for their onslaught with long sleeves and a dew rag under my hat to protect my neck. I began picking up handf...

I was cleaning out my My Documents folder today and I came across a neat photo that I never shared. Remember last year when I had the contest to design a t-shirt? I tried myself before the contest to come up with a design but I never succeeded. One of my ideas was to arrange teeth from every shark species I had from South Carolina en masse on a piece of posterboard. A couple of t-shirt designers took a look at the photo and said there was no way it would turn out becau...

Tropical Storm Hanna was bearing down on South Carolina as I sat with my family at Taco Bell in awe of how hard it was raining. We couldn't see my wife's car parked just across the sidewalk. The streets were flooding everywhere. Then the band of showers passed and the sun peeked through the swiftly moving, low clouds. And the rain had been falling off and on like that all day long!  The weezling and I drooled in anticipation of finding large serrated objects in the morning afte...