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Let's Rock => Rockhounding Tips, Maps, Trips Etc. => Topic started by: Helene Fielder on June 07, 2015, 06:13:43 PM
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A fun trip with my Friend Elizabeth hunting shark teeth along a river near Baldwyn Mississippi. For two people who didn't know what they were doing we found some. Ours were not as big as many that were found from a group of younger hunters. We learned much from them.
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Looks like awesome fun had by all! :headbang:
You might not have found the best teeth, but you got to learn something, enjoy the great outdoors, and each other's company - that's the best part. :icon_sunny: :thumbsup:
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that looks like alot more fun than i had this weekend.
I just ruined cab after cab.
I did manage to make my bad cab pile a little bigger though. :LOLOL:
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Two time honored traditions , the wet fieldtrip and the grinding rocks to death. Ruining cabs is familiar to any busy stonecutter and wandering wet for me is the best of summer. Glad to hear you had fun.
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Will we be seeing these in your tea pots? Looks like you were having a good time. :WEEEE:
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What a beautiful place to go tooth hunting! I am glad you two had a good time AND found something! LOL Two great things that go great together. :D
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Not good to hear you have had one of those days were nothing goes your way.
Amanda it felt good walking on the river and it was beautiful. Surprisingly Frank the mosquitoes were not a problem.
Inspiration for a teapot, maybe. The teeth are crisp with sharp details and their shape is interesting.
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Helene...
Perhaps you could make a texture stamp for the side of your teapot using the sharks tooth? Some kind of all-over design? Make matching mugs with it? Maybe a matching sugar and creamer set too? Food for thought. :headbang:
I bet it would sell well in one of the galleries your work shows in.
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Hi Amanda, good ideas. I did give many away to visiting kids. They are attracted to the teeth, it is pretty cool.
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You gave a bunch away and to children no less. What were you thinking? It is not your job to make children happy, it is your job to make old people happy. Let me think, I may have that turned around. Yup yup I think I have that turned around. Amazing what kind of crap your mind will cough up when you are trying to get off morphine but that's a hole nuther story.
I hope you have that much fun often. I know that feet in the river (as long as you are not in Texas) is a great place to have your feet especially if it is covered in sand and not rocks like here. Here it is better to dangle.
Jim
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Hi Amanda, good ideas. I did give many away to visiting kids. They are attracted to the teeth, it is pretty cool.
Kids love shark's teeth. I remember as a kid when someone brought some into school it seemed to be the coolest thing!
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Sinking my teeth into a nice fillet of shark is as much fun as finding their teeth I am sure. Locally they net small sharks for fish and chips in Britain. They are a little tricky to process but they filled a hole in our diet years ago in the summers when the salmon were difficult to catch. The biggest shark we caught was about 13 feet long and the smallest person lithicstrings caught it. After watching it swim below us for a while we cut the line as it was just too big to use. Here on the island we get big sharks that come right up to shore. I have been on big boulders and had the sharks banging their noses on the rock. They are salmon sharks and they will strip 30 lb test line from a heavy surf cast rod , all two hundred yards of it in about 15 seconds if you mistakenly hook one which we do by mistake when fishing for skates which are very big here also.
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The Phoenix Metro Area is a long way from any decent ocean fish market area but occasionally one of the stores would have shark stakes and my wife would buy them when marked down to half price and I would cook them on the grille, they were sure good. They seem to have disappeared from the local markets the last few years and been replaced by bison and farm raised salmon. :icon_scratch:
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Whatever you do don't touch that farm raised salmon! If it's farmed along our coast it's still bad for the fish are fed soy in their feed. Otherwise I've noticed on packaging, "Farmed in the USA or Canada, packed in China." DO NOT buy that crap! :shocked:
I've also run across wild caught fish that is packed in China or Vietnam. It pays to read labels.
Any fish farmed in China or Vietnam is also a no-no, they raise the fish in ponds that they dump their household waste into - raw sewage, food scraps - you name it.
Of course just to make things worse, the USDA is slated to approve GMO salmon in the near future to be farmed. It hasn't gone through rigorous testing to be proved safe, don't touch it!
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You make me smile Jim. So right, walking the river was sandy with warm water that felt good on the feet.
I try to be careful when purchasing fish. Catfish is also a problem bought overseas.
I've done some deep sea fishing in Tampa Bay and have seen many fishermen catch hammerhead sharks. Just like in the cartoons, fishermen often catch a fish off of squid bait, then a red fish grabs that, then a jack, finally a shark snacks on the jack. Seen it, not a tall tale or fish story. I've got to see little itty bitty lithicstrings catch a shark. love fishing, even when I don't catch anything, which is most of the time.
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Eggs from California and Washington are being sent to China to be washed and packaged and sent back to the us to be sold. Insane.
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No kidding. Now that's something I didn't know. Thank G_d we live in the sticks and I know lots of people with chickens, so I usually get fresh eggs for free. Could have our own chickens, but then I'd have to take care of them! :toothy12:
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I often wonder how anybody makes money off of shipping fruit from Chile to the USA but then we have plowed most of the orchids under for single family homes and labor costs have gone sky high so we now companies take the growing off shore to find cheap workers. Many years ago when my father was in the hospital with terminal brain cancer his room mate's family were catfish farmers from the South and millionaires but were already having trouble with imports of suspect fish products and that was the year before the OPEC oil embargo. Seems like now almost every thing is imported to save us from despoiling our fair land we despoil some place else on the planet.