kap Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 Went on my first coral collecting trip last weekend on the Withlacoochee River near the Florida – Georgia border. Had a GREAT time and I am hooked! Here are a few pics Thanks for looking! Keith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanNREMTP Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 Um, wow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattalic Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 Amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmaier Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 (edited) Agatized coral... the Florida state fossil. http://www.paleoportal.org/index.php?globalnav=time_space§ionnav=state&name=Florida Beautiful. EDIT: Ooppss... it's the "state stone". We don't have a state fossil. Our government officials still don't believe in fossils. Edited August 14, 2014 by tmaier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sacha Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 You did well Keith! I want to see what you do with a couple of the monsters you guys carried and ferried back with you! How did they clean up? I've been cutting some of my load, mostly much smaller heads and have got a couple decent ones, but nothing like yours. Of course, I didn't work as hard as you guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old bones Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 Those are gorgeous! I really like the first one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbshark Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 Really beautiful pieces you found there, congrats ! Every once in a great while it's not just a big rock down there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 Spectacular! "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hashemdbouk Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 those are stunning! gorgeous finds! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brewcuse Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 Really beautiful specimens! And here I thought I was doing good when I found a Devonian layer that yielded 1" horn corals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kap Posted August 14, 2014 Author Share Posted August 14, 2014 For the first time I think I did good! I learned a lot and know I tossed back a lot that I should have kept! (but I know where they are) The problem is now I am HOOKED! Looking forward to heading back down! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kap Posted August 14, 2014 Author Share Posted August 14, 2014 Sacha I have the 2 big ones soaking now to get the moss and black off I will post pictures after I get them cleaned they look good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kap Posted August 14, 2014 Author Share Posted August 14, 2014 Old Bones that was the very first coral that I cut! Nice way to start! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jahom15 Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 Nice pieces!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tethys Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 Very cool! Thanks for sharing. I would be hooked too, that's beautiful gemmy stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 Stunning pieces. I got back home from that trip and had just enough time to unload my truck and get some dive gear packed the next morning for a week long fish surveying class I was teaching in Nassau, Bahamas (I'm sitting in the airport and my delayed flight has finally arrived to take me back to Ft. Lauderdale). Haven't really even had a close look at the chunks we brought back with us. Hoping for some good ones but as this was our first trip as well I'm sure we will end up with some interesting ones and a lot of so-so pieces. As it is all new to us we will enjoy all of them. I see some stone cutting & polishing tools in my future. Isn't it fun when hobbies involve specialized tools that we can buy? Here is our haul as it left my truck bed and ended up in a mulch bed next to the driveway. Looking forward to seeing what prizes we might have been lucky enough to have plucked from the river bed. Thanks to all who organized the trip (coralhead and Sacha). Cheers. -Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sacha Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 Ken, you and Tammy did well. I know it's hard to tell at this stage, but once you get a look at the inside of the best of them, you will be back for more. My flat lap has been running non stop and I haven't gotten half way through my load yet. No great monumental finds, but plenty of just plain beautiful material. I'm still resting up after 2 trips in 3 weeks and Jim is already trying to schedule a Suwannee excursion. I need my vitamins!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 Amazing!! Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lissa318 Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 (edited) Those are awesome!!! Looks like you stumbled across some real beauties! Edited August 17, 2014 by lissa318 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kap Posted August 18, 2014 Author Share Posted August 18, 2014 Sacha here are a couple of the big ones after cleaning. And I like this one the bottom half did not Agatize like the rest and is black/brown strips looks cool with the white Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sacha Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 They freshen up pretty well. I haven't hit mine with a pressure washer yet. I wanted to make sure they were worth it before calling out the big guns. Time to get a really big saw! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kap Posted August 18, 2014 Author Share Posted August 18, 2014 I am working on getting my 20" saw going busted the split nut on the feed. I have a few that it needs to cut! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munchie Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 (edited) I hope you don't mind Kap. Here is a few more pieces from the same trip I just got some of them cleaned and started cutting. Edited August 19, 2014 by munchie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Russell Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Woooow!! Those are absolutely amazing beautiful! That last piece pictured in post # 20 is just spectacular! Thank you for sharing them with us, and I look forward to seeing others you guys may find! Finding my way through life; one fossil at a time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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