It's summer.
That about sums it up.
Considering the ferocity of the daily thunderstorms we've been having in the Orlando area, I'm surprised that the Peace River gage isn't reading higher, but it's still 3 feet higher than a depth I can dig in. And, of course, it's wicked hot. It was around this time last year that I spent a day in Jacksonville avoiding snakes on Quarantine Island and rabid locals on Ponte Vedra Beach. I'm thinking JAX again but someplace different...
I've pursued a couple of Jacksonville-based members on The Fossil Forum and one responded with a few coordinates of known fossil locations so I'm going to line up a weekend in August to explore.
I also remembered that my brother's first wife is a geologist and she used to hunt the Kansas road cuts for cool fossil specimens. Google brought her up on the first try and I contacted her for the first time in many years. She is still the same intelligent, kind person I remembered, and she's still a geologist. Hopefully, I will be able to tag along on one of her student fossil hunts in Kansas sometime soon and she also told me how much she enjoys visits to the Wyoming quarries. As usual, all I need is money! It's nice to dream about, though.
I did some arranging of my fossil cabinet and peaked into the box of Apollo Beach finds for the first time in 2 years.
I forgot I found these awesome little armadillo scutes.
I need to pull everything out of that box and take stock.
I finally made it down to a fossil club meeting in Ft. Myers and bought 4 more riker boxes with the goal of laying out all the shark teeth that I have deemed to be particularly beautiful.
These are the best of my best.
I ran out of riker boxes before I got to the lemon shark teeth and I keep megs and makos in my little curio cabinet but it's wonderful to be able to store these gems in a way that makes them so visually accessible.
If only I didn't have to work!
I need time to explore the rivers to the north and west of me, too.
I need to dig!!!
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