As many say, good things come to those who wait. Well, fruition at last!
While working for an elderly couple last Saturday, cleaning up various parts of the lawn for cash, I learned that this couple once traveled the world, collecting fossils and stones along the way. The next day at church, I was greeted with a very pleasant surprise, a slab of rock literally overflowing with crinoid stems!
While many may say that it isn't that big of a deal, as an amatuer fossil hunter, and one with no luck
Everyone can remember finding their first fossils, whether they be insignifigant teeth to dinosaur finds. While I found nothing dramatic or spectacular, I did find my first fossils in the form of Oligocene shells.
Thanks to hours research and MapQuest, I found a small and relatively unknown site called Natural Bridge near Gaskin, Florida. It's a natural bridge of limestone and clay seperating two spring-fed ponds.
At first glance, it was seriously polluted and trashed. Beer bottles, fishing l
I'm sure that there are plenty of people here whom, even though you probably did as much research as possible and even tried to pinpoint the area you're looking for on google earth or some similar program, when you go looking for the site in person, it constantly eludes you with being someplace completely unobvious.
Well, even with three days of searching, the sites I've looked for have eluded me time and again. One, named the Alaqua Road-cut, which contains molluscs and shells from the Miocene
