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June 5, 2010 Barry held his camera barely two feet away from the back of an Agkistrodon piscivorus. Although a small snake, it was still very dangerous and he positioned his camera based on years of experience with these reptiles. Known more commonly as a Cottonmouth or Water Moccasin, the twelve inch juvenile snake had coloration similar to the closely related Copperhead. However, its patterns were muted by late afternoon shadows in a remote location that was not favorable to an easy medical evacuation. So, we slowly moved away and eased our paddles back in the water to complete an adven
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The creek was good to me yesterday. On a rocky shoal at a bend in a creek in Austin (Travis Co. TX), I found not only my first shark tooth, but a nice creek-worn dart point with a broken tip. The gravel also gave up the big tooth pictured below, which I guess to be either Equus or Bos/Bison. The shark tooth is presumably from the Cretaceous marine layers that the creek cuts into. A friend has found shark teeth in the matrix nearby, but this one was in the wash atop a sand bar. If more/better pictures would help identify it, just let me know. Super excited to have found it. For the flint to
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March 6, 2010 It was time to paddle one of my favorite places. The water had finally receded from recent rains to make the trip manageable. It was also a test for a shoulder injury that I had been working back into shape. So I waved to my wife and slipped the boat into the cold water. As I negotiated the twisted channel, I noted many changes to familiar stretches of water. A new tree down here, a missing log jam there and fresh, untracked gravel soon became part of things behind me. Yet the water still had its surprises as I dealt with the first of four major, new logjams. Slippery mud bank
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