rapp beach hunting

[Rowboater]

With deer hunting season started, I'm avoiding the woods area in favor of beach hunting.  We have had several windstorms from the north, which should throw up stuff on the beaches I hunt.  Gave away all my bigger mako teeth in Singapore, so need to restock!  So far, I've had several good trips for shrimp coprolite burrows (will post what I have later) but not much teeth.  Today was nice weather-wise however the water (cold and clear) was very high at low tide, so I need a blow-out wind (from SW) to get to the best spots (shell lines).  I was lucky today.  Although very few of the usual small teeth were in the wash, I spotted several "teeth" that I could barely reach and two turned out to be mako/ great white.  One ugly/great character tooth was the biggest I've found this year at over 2 1/2" (6.5 cm in photos). More of a curve to the tooth blade than other makos I've found, usually almost flat like the 1 1/2" pretty one. 

Also found a "whale bone" with parallel long indentations on one side (perpendicular to the 'grain' visible on two sides).  Curious if this is a structural feature/ specialized bone or maybe just weathering? 

 

[Fossildude19]

Very cool!

Here's hoping that conditions align for you some other day. 

The two bigger teeth are amazing.

Thanks for the report!

[Darktooth]

I like the color  on the bigger mako. Glad that you were able to get out. I think that the lines on the bone are from weathering.

[Gizmo]

Very nice finds, congrats!