imafishingnutt
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- Sep 30, 2007
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- Whites XLT, Tesoro, Whites DFX, Nokta Impact Pro, Ace 400.
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
one day we had a big storm on the beach and all the sand washed away even up close to the banks
i was finding sinkers and a 1935 quarter a gold chain and even some chunks of pirite in the bottom of the tide pools way up near the bank where the water doesnt get to very often.
as i was enjoying myself finding these treasures i noticed what i thought was a piece of old drift wood but after a closer look i noticed a dark spot in the center of it and it was kida a creamy white color dark spot in the center like a bone .
i thought i had found a whale rib, so i dug it out and its was kida like hard but soft like a hard wet clay, it had been sitting in the wet for a long time.
i took it home and the next day we decided to take it to the marine center so i went out on the porch to get it loaded in the car and to my sad suprise there was nothing but a pile of white goo
my removing it from the watery wet hole it was in was a huge mistake,
all those years of wanting to decay caught up with it in one night.
we did take a piece of the tusk in and was told it was a mammoth tusk...
what a bummer.
the funny thing is when my father helped build the alaska pipe line years ago
they were cutting into the frozen ground when my father found a mammoth tusk
whats the odds of that.
Like father like son....except his in in a museum in alaska where he donated it too.
i hope this is a good lesson for you all
if you ever find an old bone and its in water or a very wet spot,
dont move it unless you can keep the wet ground around it with the move,
if i had known this they would have been able to preserve it for me.
Live and learn
Rick
i was finding sinkers and a 1935 quarter a gold chain and even some chunks of pirite in the bottom of the tide pools way up near the bank where the water doesnt get to very often.
as i was enjoying myself finding these treasures i noticed what i thought was a piece of old drift wood but after a closer look i noticed a dark spot in the center of it and it was kida a creamy white color dark spot in the center like a bone .
i thought i had found a whale rib, so i dug it out and its was kida like hard but soft like a hard wet clay, it had been sitting in the wet for a long time.
i took it home and the next day we decided to take it to the marine center so i went out on the porch to get it loaded in the car and to my sad suprise there was nothing but a pile of white goo
my removing it from the watery wet hole it was in was a huge mistake,
all those years of wanting to decay caught up with it in one night.
we did take a piece of the tusk in and was told it was a mammoth tusk...
what a bummer.
the funny thing is when my father helped build the alaska pipe line years ago
they were cutting into the frozen ground when my father found a mammoth tusk
whats the odds of that.
Like father like son....except his in in a museum in alaska where he donated it too.
i hope this is a good lesson for you all
if you ever find an old bone and its in water or a very wet spot,
dont move it unless you can keep the wet ground around it with the move,
if i had known this they would have been able to preserve it for me.
Live and learn
Rick
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It's interesting that both you and your father have found one though.
