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Got out to the Peace River yesterday and a beautiful day it was! The river continues to be very low and slow moving. As I was heading east on the 1 hour drive I was listening to news reports of several Florida Mayors wanting the counties or state to issue stay at home orders. This would certainly put a damper on visits to the river, I travel through 3 counties just to get there. So I hit the river thinking this could be my last outing for a while. With very few people on the river on any week day there really isn't a reason to stop folks from getting out and enjoying a day of exercise where they won't be in close contact with anyone else. As I was approaching within a few hundred yards of my most recent hunting spot I saw a tent on the river bank and a canoe alongside. As I got closer I saw a man and what I took to be his son. We exchanged greetings and the adult said he had spent the night on the river to get his son out of the house. I continued on and shortly had to get out of the kayak due to the water level being too low to paddle. I set up south of where I saw the campers and got busy digging. Various shark teeth started turning up pretty quickly. I was also rewarded with two small sections of dolphin jaw bones, mammoth and mastodon fragments and more. Every time nice finds seemed to be dying out I would come up with another nice shark tooth or a piece of mastodon tooth that convinced me the big prize was only a shovel away. Unfortunately, these turned out to be a bit of a tease. I did have a good day with the number and variety of shark teeth, a piece of deer antler, puffer fish mouth plate, whale tooth, dolphin periotic, a nice turtle scute, some sting ray dermal scutes and a small gator tooth. About 10 am I looked up and saw my friendly 4 foot gator lazily swimming by about 20 feet away. He slid under a downed tree and left his tail sticking out. He was there for about an hour and then disappeared. We seem to have an understanding, I ignore him and he ignores me. This was backed up by his return in the early afternoon to crawl up on his favorite sandy spot and watch me for the rest of the day. He was still laying in the sun when I headed north back to the launch site. On the way back a Bard owl graced me with his presence by suddenly flying in and landing on a tree limb directly over me in the river. He patiently waited while I circled under him taking pictures. A short time later I saw a 10' to 12' alligator slide into the river a little ahead of me. When I see that it does cause me to have second thoughts about my inflatable kayak! Shot of the owl and picture of the best finds of the day are below. I will be posting the whale tooth and one other questionable find in the ID section for help with an ID. Right now the plan is to return to the river Friday. Hope the politicians don't shoot that idea down with a stay at home order.