jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Feb 4, 2016 21:33:37 GMT -5
This coral with a unique ugly color. Encased in very dark rind. Likely spent a large part of it's life in very old organic matter. Do find ice age mammal bones in this area(giant tortoise). It was almost 2 feet long, just a silicified splinter of a much larger coral head. Sawn in thick slabs to be chipped into tumbles. Will heat treat the other half. S. Georgia  Will be returning to this location. A very smelly gray clay pocket about 10 feet long full of spiny partially silicified coral heads. Weepy clay with a spring feed behind it. Normally the death plates are in 1 to 4" sheets. Even the death plate silicified in blob like nodules. Floaters are bryozoans. Also cut to be chipped into tumbles.  Items found 8 miles apart, Withlacoochee river. |
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Post by broseph82 on Feb 4, 2016 22:00:12 GMT -5
You've seen what I will haul. Take me and I promise to fill the boat!
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Intheswamp
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Post by Intheswamp on Feb 4, 2016 22:31:40 GMT -5
<chuckle>
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Feb 5, 2016 0:11:50 GMT -5
Sink the boat ?
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Post by Intheswamp on Feb 5, 2016 7:56:01 GMT -5
It won't sink if you go ahead and build a small barge to go behind the boat...a 15 or 20 footer might do the trick...if Jimi uses some self-control that is....  |
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Post by jamesp on Feb 5, 2016 8:18:25 GMT -5
It won't sink if you go ahead and build a small barge to go behind the boat...a 15 or 20 footer might do the trick...if Jimi uses some self-control that is.... Could hook up a tow rope and bait it for gators. Jimi high in protein. |
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Post by Intheswamp on Feb 5, 2016 8:31:17 GMT -5
Hmm, I wonder if multi-color baits have ever been scientifically studied for bating gators....you might be on to something, James. Don't forget to document it all...you might get some kind of federal grant...then if you could bridge that over to hunting/baiting pythons you might really hit a homerun with the state of Florida!!! The sky's the, er, well, the river's the limit!!!!!!! (and I guess the gators). And Jimi won't mind as long as he gets to pick up a rock all along...  If you need help with the documentation I might could be bribed to come along... broseph82jamesp |
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Post by jamesp on Feb 5, 2016 8:58:03 GMT -5
Maybe all those tattoos would excite the gator. Maybe a lady gator would be a likely target.
They prefer rotting flesh. Maybe you and I are better bait.
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Intheswamp
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Post by Intheswamp on Feb 5, 2016 9:31:14 GMT -5
Maybe all those tattoos would excite the gator. Maybe a lady gator would be a likely target. They prefer rotting flesh. Maybe you and I are better bait. You're right...we're a bit on the downhill slope of things. Dang, that means Jimi gets a nice lady gator and we get a snaggle-toothed old scarred up pair of alligator shoes... |
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Post by Fossilman on Feb 5, 2016 10:44:06 GMT -5
Those are some nice colors for sure...Can't wait to see what the cooking will do with the one slab...
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Post by jamesp on Feb 5, 2016 10:53:50 GMT -5
Those are some nice colors for sure...Can't wait to see what the cooking will do with the one slab... That color is an enigma Michael. Guessing it will go to orange. may go to browner |
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Post by jamesp on Feb 5, 2016 14:44:37 GMT -5
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