An old underwater hunt of fossils

[Gomer]

Looking for early grandbaby pics as I have a grandson graduating high school soon. Ran across many pics stirring good vibrations. Thought I would share this hunt.

[Gomer]

One more of my Dad just before he met the famous "Killer Turtles" on the same hunt as above...

[Gomer]

Before I quit, a few items from our Paleo site with standing beside the largest Levy point known in Florida....rothfl


A different find but his also.... this is my face on that day particular day!

[rmartin]

Nice show Gomer! I love those teeth and that point is "something else". Ray

[zachMA]

Nice, are these all from the venice beach area? I'll be diving there in a couple weeks.

[Gomer]

Yep......Right in front of the drainage discharge pipe on the main beach in front of hotel is a really good fossil bed.

You should find all the shark teeth and sand dollars as you ever want to find. Every now and then a point shows up but it is extremely rare. The locals hunt in boats and hit the submerged outcropping. Their GPS numbers are their bible.

Cool thing about there is the dolphins in hunting a fish they eat burrows itsself in the ground. The bottom can look like a fresh plowed field!

Be very careful on the tides. If your diving with gear, though it sounds like the last thing you would need to do....be sure to take a compass reading, if you go far out. If your single tanking from the beach, recommend no more than football field of distance from beach.

PS: you certainly can run into sharks with teeth still attached.

[jdneill]

Very cool pics doc...thx for sharing!

[zachMA]

Awesome, thanks! My girlfriend always brings up tons of bone fragments and sharks teeth from down the coast on manasota key, i've been wanting to get down there ever since. Not sure how I feel about the sharks and gators, though.