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Post by jamesp on Oct 8, 2017 12:24:24 GMT -5
Day 1 was all about collecting some coral with polyps for tumbling. A big shoal about a half mile down stream from bridge, 3rd pin upper left. Has a boat ramp. This 1st half mile section of river is easy to collect if you have a canoe or kayak. Lots of fine coral. The whole 1/2 mile length of the river is totally paved with coral. Best during warm season so you can get in the water to access it. It has been targeted for years but is still very productive because it is underwater for the most part. I ended up going down to the 3rd small red pin. Maybe 5 miles. kapParking vehicle at remotely located boat ramp. Been leaving truck here for 15 years. Note lack of gun control lol. Never worry about thieves, too many folks w/guns. No discharging firearms at most US boat ramps. I love Georgia. This is the shoal 1/2 mile down from bridge. Has been moved around a bit by high water. picked over by rock hounds many times. Most people do not pursue tumbling material. So out comes the hammer to do some dissection for polyps Poorly formed corals. Common. River bar full of corals way down stream. about every one of them poorly silicified. Not 200 feet downstream were excellent corals. River current too slow to displace rocks much at all. Had to steer to far right to get past this shoal Another, about 8 total on this trip Limestone bedrock dissolved by acidic river water Large Ogeechee Tupelo tree. Source of the worlds finest honey so they say. Red fruits from Ogeechee Tupelo View of table above river. Tree line in back ground is river bank trees. Selective cutting by 'plantation' sportsman club named River Bend. Must be several thousand acres. Cow chilling in a Karst pond. Background tree line is river bank trees. Farm owner building fire pits, dang copy cat. Looks like a linear pipeline project. Need to check diggings for coral Coral hunting rig at hotel. Full moon rising soon behind truck
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Post by fantastic5 on Oct 8, 2017 12:36:18 GMT -5
So did you go almost to the Florida line the first day, then all the way back upstream???
You did 'take one for the team' with that trip.
Do you still think an overnighter through trip is worthwhile? Or did this show otherwise?
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Post by jamesp on Oct 8, 2017 14:05:31 GMT -5
So did you go almost to the Florida line the first day, then all the way back upstream??? You did 'take one for the team' with that trip. Do you still think an overnighter through trip is worthwhile? Or did this show otherwise? I did go almost to Florida. You know the water level effects the trip so much. In an attempt to go so far down I did not sample coral veins much. Passed dozens. Found a spot at bottom of trip that had white clay w/hollows, so I collected there. I believe this shoal known as 'rapids #6' is going to kill a Jon boat passage at low water levels. I have come to it from bridge 31 and it stopped me dead in tracks. Yes, OK for a kayak/canoe portage. Doubt a mud boat or Go-Devil boat can be passed or portaged passed it. This one rapid kinda kills a Jon boat over nighter from 376 to 31 I believe. The blue line left to right is GA/FL state line. You can find this on GE. GE photo is there. Me and my neighbor attempted an overnighter on kayaks back in 2006. We got to rapid #6 and found the river totally impassible due to 2 foot high water hyacinth. Had to drag kayaks several miles thru the forest. Got back to truck at 4AM. She(did marathons) thought it was an adventure. Not me. Just saying, you never know if someone sprigged water hyacinth in the river. Never saw that one coming.
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Post by captbob on Oct 9, 2017 9:17:26 GMT -5
Great thread and pictures! Thanks for taking the time to post it all. These poorly formed corals ... Is this just because they haven't had enough time to finish cooking yet? Would another hundred thousand years make a difference, or are they just what they are?
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Post by fantastic5 on Oct 11, 2017 14:49:36 GMT -5
jamesp I've seen this trip report for days 1 and 2. And the trip report for Day 4. Where be Day 3?
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Post by captbob on Oct 11, 2017 15:19:26 GMT -5
Maybe Day 3 was the day after he met up with all those wild college girls that needed him to fix their bong.
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Post by jamesp on Oct 11, 2017 19:13:49 GMT -5
Maybe Day 3 was the day after he met up with all those wild college girls that needed him to fix their bong. jamesp I've seen this trip report for days 1 and 2. And the trip report for Day 4. Where be Day 3? 3.5 hours each way ! Day 3 was travel day. I had to ETA lol. I rented room tues wed, thurs, fri, so 4 nights. Traveled on Tues and Sat. I was only on river 3 days. So day 4 was day 3. My wife would have seriously asked me the same question lol. You know, ladies do pay attention to that stuff. Guess we do too. And I would have given her the smart ass answer that day 3 was the travel day. For a minute anyway. I don't think she cares right now, she left for 2 weeks to Hawaii yesterday.
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Post by jamesp on Oct 11, 2017 19:51:13 GMT -5
Great thread and pictures! Thanks for taking the time to post it all. These poorly formed corals ... Is this just because they haven't had enough time to finish cooking yet? Would another hundred thousand years make a difference, or are they just what they are? Hard to say. Not only that it is hard to say when they silicified. If you were to dig down 20 feet down to the coral vein say a distance from the river you will likely find silicified coral where it occurs. It occurs in ground water rich clay or damp sand on limestone bedrock, conditions favorable for silicification. My guess is they may be forming to this day. Check out coral in photo below. Notice the (silicified)tubes have broken off. Then druzy crystals covered them. Some destructive event had to break the silicified tubes. And then they got glued down with druzy. Tubes formed from silica. Tubes broke. Tubes glued back down with silica. Look thru your Withlacoochee botryoidal coral and you will find these re-silicified broken tubes. Never known for a geologist to address this. No conclusions, it's just peculiar. Like a water line agate with fortifications at 2 different angles. check out center bot, it broke and re-coated. same with one at lower right
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2017 20:31:31 GMT -5
Tubes formed from silica. Tubes broke. Tubes glued back down with silica. I could see pieces like that snapped up by the decorator market. They love interesting larger mineral pieces mounted on a base. Yours are much more interesting than the dyed and mounted Brazilian agate nodules that one normally sees in the fancy mineral shops and decorator stores.
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Post by jamesp on Oct 11, 2017 21:02:18 GMT -5
Tubes formed from silica. Tubes broke. Tubes glued back down with silica. I could see pieces like that snapped up by the decorator market. They love interesting larger mineral pieces mounted on a base. Yours are much more interesting than the dyed and mounted Brazilian agate nodules that one normally sees in the fancy mineral shops and decorator stores. I used to sell them rocks2dust. Saw and polish, mount on lucite. They always wanted larger specimens. I just never did buy a big saw for soccer ball and basketball size specimens.
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Post by fernwood on Oct 12, 2017 9:10:29 GMT -5
Thanks for sharing. Looks like quite the rewarding adventure.
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Post by jamesp on Oct 12, 2017 10:20:44 GMT -5
Thanks for sharing. Looks like quite the rewarding adventure. Old stomping grounds fernwood. Spent 26 years working collecting planting in wetlands in SE US. Kind of surprised me when I ran up on this fossil coral years ago. It was known about and collected by others for many years before.
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Post by captbob on Oct 12, 2017 16:00:20 GMT -5
I don't think she cares right now, she left for 2 weeks to Hawaii yesterday. I'd be checking all the gas line connections. Stove, furnace, water heater ... Don't forget to feed the dawgs.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Oct 12, 2017 16:10:52 GMT -5
Kinda looks like the innards of a spaghetti squash!
Nice report James, just seeing it for the first time now. Looks like you brought home some nice small chunks to tumble. Love your photo adventures.
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Post by jamesp on Oct 12, 2017 16:26:09 GMT -5
I don't think she cares right now, she left for 2 weeks to Hawaii yesterday. I'd be checking all the gas line connections. Stove, furnace, water heater ... Don't forget to feed the dawgs. She would have cussed me out and called me a fool if I had not taken advantage of an opportunity with one of those young thangs. And then cut the gas line after the deed was done. You know their logic. Dogs fat and happy. Look like carrion passed out on the couch. Buzzards roosting.
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Post by jamesp on Oct 12, 2017 16:35:38 GMT -5
Kinda looks like the innards of a spaghetti squash!
Nice report James, just seeing it for the first time now. Looks like you brought home some nice small chunks to tumble. Love your photo adventures.
Lot of that spaghetti squash formation Jean. They have a super hard silicified thin shell. One tap of the hammer and it's opened, kinda like an egg. They make striking specimens if you saw them in halves and then blast the innards out with a pressure washer using a zero tip. The solidly silicified shells often have more striking colors from internal and external metal salts absorption. Heat treat them and colors magnify. Many laying on the shoals out of water during winter will freeze crack. Dumping there noodles right on the spot they lay. Another one from years gone by closer in Alien apartment building a shame, this one was twice this size but fell apart when sawing The ole killer clams bored the 2 holes in this one. Lots of them with clam borings pseudomorphed
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Post by zzyzzyx on Nov 7, 2017 14:14:29 GMT -5
Thanks. We don't have places like that out here.
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Post by jamesp on Nov 8, 2017 5:21:42 GMT -5
Thanks. We don't have places like that out here. Where is out here z ?
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Post by fantastic5 on Nov 8, 2017 7:54:53 GMT -5
Thanks. We don't have places like that out here. Where is out here z ? I think he is from a town in California with the same name.
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Post by Garage Rocker on Nov 8, 2017 8:09:16 GMT -5
I think he is from a town in California with the same name. "I'd like to buy a vowel."
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