Peace River - love the ‘smalls’

[Done Drillin]

Jumped at the chance for my daughter to join me for a couple of days of digging the Peace and although we didn’t find anything big the smalls kept us more than busy and the variety of finds was enough to put a smile on her face. The weather on May 20th was perfect with the river low and slow and scattered rain - we decided to try a new area and found some good gravel and it did not disappoint. Lots of sharks teeth, and enough other goodies kept us busy and we put in a full 8 hours of sifting. Day 2  - what a change ! Overnight rains ended about 9 am and we found the river had risen close to a foot with the current moving at a much faster pace. Getting upstream to our spot was challenging but we persevered and had a great father daughter outing. We found a bunch of nice Hemipristis upper and lowers , a few nice tigers , and many many lemon and Carcharhinus teeth. Our best finds included several tapir caps and 1 with most of its root structure , a hoof core ,tortoise leg spurs, 2 camel or lama incisors, a number of alligator teeth, several horse teeth, deer teeth , glyptodont scutes , and couple of unknowns that I hope others will chime in with an id

[hemipristis]

What a haul!

[Shellseeker]

10 hours ago, Done Drillin said:

Jumped at the chance for my daughter to join me for a couple of days of digging the Peace and although we didn’t find anything big the smalls kept us more than busy and the variety of finds was enough to put a smile on her face. The weather on May 20th was perfect with the river low and slow and scattered rain - we decided to try a new area and found some good gravel and it did not disappoint. Lots of sharks teeth, and enough other goodies kept us busy and we put in a full 8 hours of sifting. Day 2  - what a change ! Overnight rains ended about 9 am and we found the river had risen close to a foot with the current moving at a much faster pace. Getting upstream to our spot was challenging but we persevered and had a great father daughter outing. We found a bunch of nice Hemipristis upper and lowers , a few nice tigers , and many many lemon and Carcharhinus teeth. Our best finds included several tapir caps and 1 with most of its root structure , a hoof core ,tortoise leg spurs, 2 camel or lama incisors, a number of alligator teeth, several horse teeth, deer teeth , glyptodont scutes , and couple of unknowns that I hope others will chime in with an id

You are a lucky man... hunting with your daughter on the Peace River.  She will remember these days in the sunshine forever. The River gods must love you to be so generous in their gifts.  

[Done Drillin]

Yes we were very pleased - but as you know that represents some serious labor for 2 full days - going to take me a while to recover ! There were as many sharks teeth as I have ever seen - with every scoop you could see them coming out of the pile before washing. No megs as this is a small gravel area but just a lot of nice whole teeth - very nice to add to my daughters collection - pops got nothing !