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Last Thursday I headed out with friends to camp at Torreya State Park, and to fossil hunt the Apalachicola and Chipola rivers. I did my homework by checking the waterlevels, and while higher by 2 feet than the last time I hunted, I knew my location was a good 6 feet above the level I had seen for my last three trips. Surprise, surprise...rain rain go away, come again some other day. By the time I had settled in to my campsite, putting up my tent, the water level on the Chipola had gone from 6.5 feet to 12.2...one afternoon. Its discharge rate from from 900 to 3150....Kayaking in water moving at 900 cu meters per second is easily doable....3150....not so easy. So I scrapped the Chipola, besides my collection locations there were at water's edge when it was 4.5 feet in depth. Eventually over the weekend it crested at 16.85 on Sat and then started coming down. Wood with a row of little insect holes , fern impression in clay, willow like leaves in sandstone matrix, and a broad leaf, dark veined plant...unknown category in sandstone also.