busyeagle Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 The annual family beach vacation! There have been a few teeth to pick out of the shells there ever since the reclamation several years ago, when they dredged some fossiliferous material to build up the beach. The supply has dwindled recently - these were the result of a few hours of hunting a day for a week. Did manage to pick up one decent GW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 Cool. My daughter and her family lives there. I grew up all along Bogue Banks spending lots of time from Fort Macon to Atlantic Beach, Salter Path and Emerald Isle, and that is the most teeth I have ever seen from that area. I am curious, were your finds down near the point along Bogue Inlet? The only dredging I ever hear about is when the Army Corps of Engineers dredges the inlet. In all of the past dredging there have been very very few teeth found. Interesting. 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...
busyeagle Posted September 16, 2013 Author Share Posted September 16, 2013 Hey Sixgill - that's awesome that your daughter and her family live down there, I love that area. These teeth were all found between 4th and 21st Streets in Emerald Isle. I haven't tried collecting along Bogue Inlet, we usually just walk from the beach house we are staying at. My Dad has been vacationing there since he was a kid, and I believe saw at most a few small teeth come out in all the years before the reclamation - so I'm not surprised that you didn't see many growing up. I don't have much information about the dredging, but what I do know is that the beach had eroded enough that the high tide was splashing against the stairs of many of the oceanfront houses in that area, and they made a major effort to build up the beach. The first summer we were down there after the reclamation it was painful to walk on the beach because the shells were so thick in the new material. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcoSr Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Nice specimens! It is a really good family vacation when you can also get in a little fossil hunting. Marco Sr. "Any day that you can fossil hunt is a great day." My family fossil website Some Of My Shark, Ray, Fish And Other Micros My Extant Shark Jaw Collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busyeagle Posted September 16, 2013 Author Share Posted September 16, 2013 Nice specimens! It is a really good family vacation when you can also get in a little fossil hunting. Marco Sr. Thanks Marco, and I heartily agree. We did also leave the beach to go on a separate fossil hunting excursion one morning - I'm planning to post a report for that within the next couple of days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moahunt1 Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 nice group. thanks for sharing. like the GW havent found one before. Hunted for fossils in:UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips) Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammalsNew Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilcrazee Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 good looking GW and a pretty Carcharhinus too (1st tooth in the third row) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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