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Peace River, Florida.

From Bowling Green, FL. Each fossil is about 1 cm across.

Does anyone know what happened to Bone Valley Fossil Farm? My family and I were looking forward to going here, but when I went to book there is no trace of this place except for a Facebook page link that has been pulled down. Thanks.

While on Sanibel Island, Florida, I decided to visit a “fee site” called Bone Valley Fossil Farm, located in Bowling Green, Florida. I ran across this site a couple weeks ago while searching the internet. I made a reservation last week to visit today. It has been in existence I believe for several months. It is located on a family farm and the owners excavate down to the fossil layer and then bring the material to the “Searching Stations” and parcel it out in sections. The nice thing with the way that they do this is that your car is 20 feet away from the section that you selected to hunt. There are a few options and I believe young kids a free, but you would have to double check. They have half day visits and you can select to collect in the AM (8a-noon) or PM (Noon-5pm). I chose to collect for a full day, which was 8am-5pm. I feel that the full day is they best way to visit and it give me you time to go through your section. If you run out of material, they bring you more. I was not the fastest searching since I was sifting for the purpose of having smaller material to search through later. I left at 6 am and made the 2 hour trip to the designated meet up area. Once there, you sign a release, pay for your visit- cash, and then you select a folded up piece of paper that has the section that you are going to hunt. The meet up area is below- The farm is a 5 minute drive to the collecting site. Driving on the farm road, the fog was terrible during most of my 2 hour drive. The first look at the site, I had section #4. I brought three sifters with me so I could take home some smaller material to search during the Winter. I did bring a small rake and a shovel, but I ended up using the ones that they provided. I believe that there is another site that has “dry hunts” and you sift or search through dry material. In my opinion, this site is better since they provide water hoses to go through the material in your section . If you do visit, plan on getting wet. It was 89 degrees (F) today and there is no shade, unless you set up a tent or go to your car, people did it both ways today, I opted to just search. Next to me I met a nice couple and the husband, Daniel, just joined the Forum today. @Meganeura, they found some nice stuff, much more than me. It is the luck of the pile. Here is the first Meg that was found and few piles away from me. Here are some more pics of the site. As you can see, it gets very muddy. CONTINUED ON NEXT POST-

Found this in a stream in Bowling Green, Kentucky along with plenty of plant fossils that were in clay like rocks