PrehistoricFlorida Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 I'm looking to dive the Santa Fe 2 or 3 days sometime early next month, anyone game for showing me around? www.PrehistoricFlorida.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mosasaur Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 I used to live near Santa Fe. Lots of good mineral collecting but I never encountered any fossil spots. Kenneth Quinn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mosasaur Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 Oops, I misread the message the first time. Thought you meant the city, not the river. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gatorman Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 Well I don't know a lot of good diving spots, but Cris and I would be happy to ride with ya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrehistoricFlorida Posted December 30, 2007 Author Share Posted December 30, 2007 you only snorkel? www.PrehistoricFlorida.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cris Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 Yep, Nate... The Santa Fe is so low half of the time, there's not much need to dive... I imagine some of the deeper holes around where we snorkel is still loaded, though.... Just diving down there on a breath turns up some good stuff sometimes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrehistoricFlorida Posted December 30, 2007 Author Share Posted December 30, 2007 Well, maybe I can dive and ya'll can snorkel, I have a boat and will travel to anywhere with water and fossils. Can ya'll go during the week? I hate weekend boat traffic and FWC... www.PrehistoricFlorida.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gatorman Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 Yes we can, anytime your ready let us know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrehistoricFlorida Posted December 30, 2007 Author Share Posted December 30, 2007 Sometime during the second week of January, where's the nearest town where I can get a motel for a reasonable price? www.PrehistoricFlorida.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gatorman Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 Well outside Lake City at I-75 and SR-47 theres a Motel 8, or you can try the old motels in High Springs, but I wouldn't recommend those. The Best stretch of river is probably between Hollingsworth Bluff and Sandy Point you can put in at either of these points and head towards the other, we hunt mostly closer to Hollingsworth Bluff there are shallows and also deep holes with rocks to hang onto (you need those when snorkeling the current is rather strong). There is much gravel on the bottom and lots of fossil material. pieces of mammoth and mastodon teeth are very common. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrehistoricFlorida Posted December 30, 2007 Author Share Posted December 30, 2007 man... I was just thinking about it, if you haven't even found a whole tapir tooth yet, I don't know why I want to leave where I'm diving to come down there... I find several tapir teeth every time I go, we don't even pick stuff up if it's not whole. www.PrehistoricFlorida.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gatorman Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 we don't keep much if it isn't whole, it just adds to much junk to our collections. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrehistoricFlorida Posted December 30, 2007 Author Share Posted December 30, 2007 what have you found in there this year? www.PrehistoricFlorida.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gatorman Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 We really haven't done a lot this year, and when we did go we didn't go for long and we only waded around and found a few things I found a couple deer mandibles, lots of armadillo scutes, and the common gator teeth and things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cris Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 We don't find nearly as much as some of you guys... Perhaps it's just because we don't dive, or maybe the Santa Fe is just looked over quite a bit.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrehistoricFlorida Posted December 30, 2007 Author Share Posted December 30, 2007 well... i might only want to do a day trip before I spend the money necessary for a 2-3 day trip. www.PrehistoricFlorida.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cris Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 It might be worth it for you to plan a trip to the Steinhatchee or perhaps the Suwannee... Or perhaps a location in the middle of all of them... Hunt a different one every day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrehistoricFlorida Posted December 30, 2007 Author Share Posted December 30, 2007 Steinhatchee is only tidal right now, there's not enough water in it. Suwannee is dark, I only dive it when it's clear. Ya'll ever hunt the New River? www.PrehistoricFlorida.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cris Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 We planned a trip there once and I'm not even sure if we actually made it to the right place.... We found some little river/creek back somewhere that wasn't even flowing... It had a few shark's teeth and some holes where people had been digging out the gravel on the dried up areas..... It may not have been the New River, but that's where we had originally planned to hunt that day.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrehistoricFlorida Posted December 30, 2007 Author Share Posted December 30, 2007 I've heard that it very rarely has current and because of this the divers have to go down with 5 gallon buckets, fill up with gravel and sort through it on the bank. www.PrehistoricFlorida.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cris Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 I had actually never heard of anyone hunting it... I found it on a topo map, compared it to a geo map and saw it went through the same formation as some of the Gainesville creeks.... so we checked it out.... Do you know what kinds of things these divers were hunting? I went there for shark's teeth, but now I wonder what else is in there.... Maybe I should've jumped in the old stagnant water! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrehistoricFlorida Posted December 30, 2007 Author Share Posted December 30, 2007 Only people I know to hunt it were looking for arrowheads, they probably left everything else behind. www.PrehistoricFlorida.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cris Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 There are some very tame otters there, and some quite large snapping turtles.. Lots of wildlife to see.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrehistoricFlorida Posted December 30, 2007 Author Share Posted December 30, 2007 Yeah, if it's stagnant I bet there's some of those huge snapping turtles that will try to take your arm off, I had a bad run-in with one of those in the Suwannee earlier this year. www.PrehistoricFlorida.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cris Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 There's a couple fairly good ones in the Santa Fe, still.... I remember when I first started hunting, I went back in this creek off the Santa Fe and it was a bit muddy... I was barefoot.... Stood of this huuuge "rock" and, well......... the rock moved..... and I.... I walked on water.... Ahhh, good times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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