First Peace River trip of the season--December 2016
With one last check of the river gauges to verify water level, we set the alarm clock for 3:30am and were rolling down my driveway before 4:00am with the truck packed with gear for our first trip out to the Peace River this season. When we left Boca Raton the thermometer in the car registered a balmy 73F (23C) which isn't too bad for the overnight low in the middle of the night. I chose the route up the Florida Turnpike to the aptly named Beeline Hwy which is a laser straight route through India
More thoughts and musings on the first mystery item from above. Looking through my accumulated collection of Peace River fossils over the last couple of days I spotted a second find that matches this mystery object. Here are images of the two of them.
I'm now pretty certain that these are both leg osteoderms from the giant tortoise that once ambled around Florida in a very Galapagean manner. The tortoise osteoderms that I'm use to finding (not the most common of find
