jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Oct 17, 2013 18:56:55 GMT -5
Been on a 6 day hunt and left Georgia to check out a site some Jacksonville rock hunters told me about the day before. They drove up from Florida to get coral from the Georgia stretch of the Withlacoochee. We hung out that day collecting coral. They were hunting psuedomorphs and artifacts. Found 3 scrapers. Here is the quick trip they sent me on yesterday and boy did i score on silicified oysters. they sent me for coral but i got into a vein of oysters. Other fossils too, i believe petrified mangrove root, finger coral and a few black mammal bones that puzzled me. And a good bit of pottery shards by the ancients. What a beautiful spot on earth. The oysters are spectacular (on the inside (too me))  Cannot wait to heat some, tumble some and saw single cab sized slabs out of the bigger oysters. This is a piece of a tumbled oyster with worm holes  Walking in from the road i see a deep cut w clay vein below the sand and rock sitting on top yeah  Looking back toward the truck  Set up a little sluice. Goodies were under 4-6 inches of sand  The dark stuff on the right is silicified, the white on the left is limestone  Silicification colors were above average. Coral seemed picked over  Darn turtle kept teasing me. backed out of site every time i got close enough to take a photo  I think he planted sand spurs around his burrow to keep 2 leggers away  |
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Post by Thunder69 on Oct 17, 2013 19:28:42 GMT -5
I have got to come hunt with you some day....Nice finds ....John
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Post by jamesp on Oct 17, 2013 19:53:16 GMT -5
You got sand spurs over there John. You will be ready if you know how to avoid those devils.
Those guys said this spot was 3/4 mile west of the truck weigh in on I-75. Little roads scurrying all over, it was a wonder i found the spot. The exit was 20 miles away. I made 5 turns on nothing roads to
get there. The spot was 1 mile as the bird flies from my best spot on the Suwanee River.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2013 22:01:51 GMT -5
Ha! Rockhound as a seed dispersal vector!
Plant evolution at it's finest!
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Post by rockpickerforever on Oct 18, 2013 8:55:27 GMT -5
James, looks like you found some mighty fine stuff!
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Post by pghram on Oct 18, 2013 9:55:06 GMT -5
The scenery is almost as nice as the coral.
Rich
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Oct 18, 2013 12:37:52 GMT -5
Those little jungle creeks are real pretty. The 4th photo shows a little spring in the upper left. It was coming straight out of the ground 20 feet up the slope.
Typically those are perfect drinking water and from the amount of pottery the ancients left i will guess they were scarfing it up.
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Post by quartz on Oct 18, 2013 13:18:01 GMT -5
My first ques., naturally: How does that mangrove wood look polished up? Are those trees and stumps in and along the river mangrove, the ones with the flared butts, and the pungee sticks? I've never seen one in person. Thanks for the show, very different than here, nice tour and good finds. We have a similar little sticker bush here, grows close to the ground and looks to be about as grabby; high top shoes a must. Larry
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Post by Fossilman on Oct 18, 2013 14:31:41 GMT -5
Totally awesome trip James,and to find goodies too! Those oysters look kool,with a K dude!
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Post by rockpickerforever on Oct 18, 2013 14:33:54 GMT -5
Those are cypress knees, aren't they? Yeah, bad place to put down your parachute, lol!
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Oct 18, 2013 19:50:44 GMT -5
My first ques., naturally: How does that mangrove wood look polished up? Are those trees and stumps in and along the river mangrove, the ones with the flared butts, and the pungee sticks? I've never seen one in person. Thanks for the show, very different than here, nice tour and good finds. We have a similar little sticker bush here, grows close to the ground and looks to be about as grabby; high top shoes a must. Larry Those are either bald cypress or pond cypress trees Larry. The wood will last forever in the water. About all boats were made of cypress in the old days. One common design was a boat made out of 5 boards. And used 40-90 HP outboards . The boards were all 18 inches wide. 3 for the floor and one for each gunnel. They still make them especially on the large shallow lakes that get so violently rough. Shallow lakes have rolling surf waves and sink boats w/ease. Cypress gets a bacteria causing voids. It is called 'pecky'. You can find logs floating that were rejected by timber people in the ax and saw days. They had an axed out pyramid looking for pecky damage. They were rejected if infected. Now the pecky wood is highly sought after. Check it out  |
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Post by grayfingers on Oct 19, 2013 14:46:40 GMT -5
Great peek into your jungle! It is great to see such a place chock full of man's and earth's history. That dark orange chip is very colorific.
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Post by jamesp on Oct 20, 2013 8:45:21 GMT -5
Colorific is the goal. Thanks Bill.
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Post by beefjello on Oct 20, 2013 14:22:26 GMT -5
Very cool Jim. You should have your own reality show  |
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Oct 20, 2013 16:28:04 GMT -5
I can be Jim if you will be Mr. Perkins. We could call it 'Agates of Omaha'  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2013 12:54:44 GMT -5
Marlin Perkins was a herpetologist. St. Louis Zoo, Buffalo Zoological Park and finally Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. He survived the bites of a Timber rattlesnake, a cottonmouth and a gaboon viper. Dude was my hero.
Can I be the Perkins? lol
Brian is a better choice. Far more handsome.
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Oct 21, 2013 18:57:03 GMT -5
If both of you would take the job one could serve in a 'special' project w/the gators.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2013 19:00:30 GMT -5
'gators are my bitches
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Oct 21, 2013 22:00:21 GMT -5
I wasn't talking about aquarium gators.
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Post by ash on Oct 22, 2013 10:54:43 GMT -5
Gaboon viper? I bet that hurt. Are they the ones with the huge fangs? Not that the other vipers are small lol. That is an awesome looking creek. I have to admit, I did not even notice any knees lol, and I live in SLA. I guess you get used to looking at them, now they are just background noise...until I run over one with the lawnmower! Then I see them for sure.
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Cannot wait to heat some, tumble some and saw single cab sized slabs out of the bigger oysters.
