Very cool...I'd be interested in a group day!

 

Susan and I would love to do this. Just saw a Travel Channel special about this.

 

we need to go in a decent shallow section with some meanders in the river the more turns, the deeper the erosion into the bank and hopefully more material

Fltsfshr I trust you on the location scouting

it has been a few years since i have been down there.

I am going to get my mom in on this she has contacts that do "teeth" expeditions down on that river so I may be able to get some good locations from her, and she may want to come along.


Finally....a "s" group of people not afraid to get their hands dirty I kid, I kid but this is the first down and dirty cool nerdy type event I have come across on these boards.

I am in on this foe show!!!!

 

I know just the place. We've been going here for a long time, theres always more. Rivers shallow and meandering, we just wade and scoop. I usually don't dig banks but I'm interested in them when it's shallow.

I make a frame of wood, usually 18 by 24 or so, nail a float noodle to it so it floats easy and put small mesh wire on the bottom. Then i put a rope on it to pull it and we just shovel or scoop into it.

Honestly though you can find just as much stuff with a colander. We should get Dean to come along and he can provide ongoing biologic commentary.


fltsfshr

 

say when.

this weekend = bad with the SPGP and the weekend of the dragon = bad but any other weekend should be OK as long as we plan ahead a little

 

Jillian (My +1) is a Geologist and led a bunch of field expeditions for fossils when she was teaching at U of F. One of our very first dates was fossil hunting up N of Gainesville. (Yes, we are BOTH dorks). we would definitely be up for a fossil hunting/identifying trip.

 

Are there any conch fritters in it for me?

 

Yes.....you all know how nerdy me and the first mate are. She would love doing that. Let's plan it soon.

On a similar note, would anyone be up for a peace river cano trip?

 

Yep Fossilized ones.

Seriously mostly what we'll find is little sharks teeth and maybe a couple good sized ones. Some fossilized bone fragments occasionally. I know about 10 years ago one of the schools was excavating a mammoth skeleton just upstream from there.

If you get real lucky you may find a 2" or bigger shark tooth.

Stuff like the a mammoth tooth and megladon teeth are very scarce. That's the first mammoth tooth we've ever found and we've been going there a long time. The guys who get the really big shark teeth dive the gator holes in the everglades. Not me.

I'd be into a day of doing that how the Saturday or Sunday after Easter? We all meet in arcadia. Maybe the Capn's wife knows a better place.

Where I go is no big secret, it's just N of arcadia by where the airboats launch.

fltsfshr

 

you will get a myriad of lesser shark teeth and maybe some Dugong and Ray teeth too

I am in

let me know when and where