DownNDirty
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The AT Pro is at the Garrett service center getting a much-needed warranty repair. For those of you who are not aware, Garrett's customer service is second to none! I broke the tabs where the screws run to attach the housing to the shaft (my fault). I sent it to them and they have repaired it, no questions asked and it is on the way back to me at no cost. You can't beat that-and they are an American company.
In the mean time I have been having serious withdrawal symptoms and was in need of an adventure fix. Before I got addicted to metal detecting I spent a lot of time hunting for shark teeth and other fossils in the creeks of the Lowcountry of South Carolina and I decided to revisit one of the creeks last weekend. This area is 15-20 miles inland and the creeks are freshwater. Millions of years ago the ocean covered the area and all sorts of marine creatures roamed the ocean.
In preparation I built a new sifter. Because I would be sifting in the water I attached pieces of swim noodles for floatation
Well last Saturday morning I made the 90-minute drive down and was in the water by 8:30. The drill for the next ten hours (yes it was a long day) was as follows: Walk the creek, look for patches of gravel, scoop gravel into the sifter, sift and extract the fossils. The best shark tooth of the day was a 4.5 inch megalodon tooth. Unfortunately the left side is broken off, but I'll take it
Here it is with other smaller megalodon teeth I found Saturday
Angustidens shark teeth; they pre-dated the megalodons by millions of years
Here is what I'm pretty sure is a partial vertebra from a giant ground sloth
Here it is next to a partial giant ground sloth vert I found in the same creek a few years ago; it was id'd by the Curator for Natural History at the South Carolina State Museum
I also found a fragment of a giant ground sloth tooth
Giant ground sloths weighed up to 4 tons and grew to a maximum size of 20 feet tall
Other fossils I found Saturday-three alligator teeth
A sting ray barb and dermal plate pieces
A small mammal claw and giant beaver tooth
Turtle shell fragments
Dugong rib bone pieces (dugongs are close relatives of manatees)
Whale inner ear bones
Petrified wood and fossilized bones
I ended a long 13-hour day with the 90-minute drive home. Long day but a lot of fun. The AT Pro is due to arrive Friday so this weekend I will get my fix lol.
In the mean time I have been having serious withdrawal symptoms and was in need of an adventure fix. Before I got addicted to metal detecting I spent a lot of time hunting for shark teeth and other fossils in the creeks of the Lowcountry of South Carolina and I decided to revisit one of the creeks last weekend. This area is 15-20 miles inland and the creeks are freshwater. Millions of years ago the ocean covered the area and all sorts of marine creatures roamed the ocean.
In preparation I built a new sifter. Because I would be sifting in the water I attached pieces of swim noodles for floatation
Well last Saturday morning I made the 90-minute drive down and was in the water by 8:30. The drill for the next ten hours (yes it was a long day) was as follows: Walk the creek, look for patches of gravel, scoop gravel into the sifter, sift and extract the fossils. The best shark tooth of the day was a 4.5 inch megalodon tooth. Unfortunately the left side is broken off, but I'll take it
Here it is with other smaller megalodon teeth I found Saturday
Angustidens shark teeth; they pre-dated the megalodons by millions of years
Here is what I'm pretty sure is a partial vertebra from a giant ground sloth
Here it is next to a partial giant ground sloth vert I found in the same creek a few years ago; it was id'd by the Curator for Natural History at the South Carolina State Museum
I also found a fragment of a giant ground sloth tooth
Giant ground sloths weighed up to 4 tons and grew to a maximum size of 20 feet tall
Other fossils I found Saturday-three alligator teeth
A sting ray barb and dermal plate pieces
A small mammal claw and giant beaver tooth
Turtle shell fragments
Dugong rib bone pieces (dugongs are close relatives of manatees)
Whale inner ear bones
Petrified wood and fossilized bones
I ended a long 13-hour day with the 90-minute drive home. Long day but a lot of fun. The AT Pro is due to arrive Friday so this weekend I will get my fix lol.
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Those fossils are awesome and thats a nice way to pass the time before the AT Pro gets back to you. I really enjoyed reading this one man.
