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Remember the creek spot I hit in the summer in July? Went back there yesterday to Creek hunt, willing to brave the very (VERY) cold water to hunt for the shark teeth I knew were plentiful. Surprisingly, I only found a couple of teeth (probably because the water was absolutely freezing, and I wasn't crazy enough to swim in freezer water to get teeth). The best thing I found tooth wise was this decent (but tipless) little Angie: The highlight of this trip, however, is not the teeth, but my very first (and very, VERY big) whale vert: One end And the other end At 2 7/8" long and 2 5/8" wide, it's really heavy (If I wanted to I could probably even use it for weight training, lol). However, a good chunk of it is missing (though the veins where the bone marrow was is pretty cool)... The really cool part, however, is what I saw on this big guy after looking more closely: See the clean scratches? I dunno about you, but they look an awful lot like predation marks to me. If they are, then this definitely one of my coolest finds so far. Confirmation, anyone? Family photo for this trip. Yeah, it's not much, but the specimens weren't terrible either: