Beach Combing at Hunting Island, SC

[ResearchandRecovery]

We went to Hunting Island, SC today to soak up some sun rays along with searching for some Shark Teeth for segment on the upcoming show. Within 10 Minutes of getting there and getting everything straightened out, I was able to walk right up on one! My first ever....

About an hour later I was able to retrieve 2 more!

Anyone know anything about Shark's Teeth? Any Good Books? I'm wanting to learn more about them!

From what I gathered, 1 and 3 in the pic are from a Lemon Shark and the middle is from a White Shark, or at least that is my guess... Anybody else know?

Thanks,
Ian

 

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[DebbzInNC]

Those are great! I don't know much about them, but I think they are beautiful.
Congrats on the finds!

 

[Felinepeachy]

WOW, those are great eyeball finds!!

 

[bronco]

Nice, Hate to tell you now have another addictive hobby. I think you're right on your ID. Out of respect for this site I don't want to post a link- But google blackriver and fossils. There is a good blog out of SC. Probably the only site you'll need. South Carolina is blessed with a lot of natural history related opportunities. Last fall my son and I found a mammoth tooth (not a big shark tooth but the wooly variety) in a local creek. Yet to find our first whole Meg. FYI Lafarge quarry in Harleyville allows unsupervised hunts quarterly, open to the public. Call their office for details.

 

[ResearchandRecovery]

Nice, Hate to tell you now have another addictive hobby. I think you're right on your ID. Out of respect for this site I don't want to post a link- But google blackriver and fossils. There is a good blog out of SC. Probably the only site you'll need. South Carolina is blessed with a lot of natural history related opportunities. Last fall my son and I found a mammoth tooth (not a big shark tooth but the wooly variety) in a local creek. Yet to find our first whole Meg. FYI Lafarge quarry in Harleyville allows unsupervised hunts quarterly, open to the public. Call their office for details.

Thanks Bronco! Are you from SC?

I've always been intrigued by fossils, teeth, etc and today was a good first day for me to get out and experience finding OLD stuff!

 

[Nana40]

Super finds! You might pm Rob. (rtde3) He's got the Shark Pit!

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,139683.html

Nana

 

[Ocean Oso]

3 might be a Lemon, but 1 isn't. It looks like Hammerhead. Lemon are not so wide and more of a cone shape.

Lemon above.

 

[SoreKneesDayton]

There color indicates very old?

SKD

 

[bronco]

Well I'm not at liberty to say

Shark toothin is a great way to spend a day. I guarantee you anybody on this board would take to it immediately. Just go look at that web site and you'll be pointed in the right direction. You did well to find those teeth on your first trip. You'll find more and more as your eyes get trained. Here's a tip. "stuff" of like size and weight tends to get deposited together on the beach. Look for round flat pebbles as you walk the beach- sure sign of teeth. Stay away from the lightweight shell material like oystershell.

Look for black pebbles as well alot of that is worn bone or gum fragments. Teeth on the beach tend to orient themselves with the point facing downhill so search from the down hill side to get your eyes trained.

Take a kid with you. I can't tell you what hunting teeth with my 5 and 3 year old has meant. It was the first thing my 4 year old and I could do together as equals. Its even better than fishing with kids at that age. Kids are lower to the ground and they have better eyes. It's an amazing thing to watch a five year old learn to recognize all the patterns and develope an eye for it. All the high fives and hearing them say "good sign Dad"

Freakin' amazing. The kids even came up with ther own verbage for stuff we commonly find.
"sponge bob rocks". We yell "oscar" instead of "tooth" to each other when other people are around to keep our finds secret. You're walking along and your 4 year old says "darn, just another ballyhoo beak" or
Nice manganese nodule dad" It's awesome. My oldest even decided to take a notebook with him in his pocket to draw/ catalog his finds and this is before he could even write! Then there's all the reading and learning about sharks they do when they get home. He had the his whole class finding sharks teeth in the playground sand at school. Just an amazing thing that I think most any kid would love. But the most amazing thing is how good they are at it naturally. You can relate to them as equals at that age is really cool. Oh yeah and if you have more than one you can see first hand how your kids learn and the differences in their personalities/ patience- everything. You can actually see when and how the lights come on for them as they figure it all out. Its amazing how different they are.

Good luck!

 

[goldencoin]

Very nice, I used to spend all my time hunting for shark teeth on the beach before getting an MD....but is i still keep an eye out for them. Here is a bit of my collection

HH
-GC

 

[allen]

those are so cool....

 

[Pentico]

goldencoin, you have enough shark teeth there to make a good set of dentures for an old shark.
We don't find to many shark teeth in Colorado.
Chris & LeeAnn

 

[limitedthoughts]

I thought treasure net is about finding treasure. I think thoes teeth are cool treasure..

Specialy since i have days where im getting skunked with can tabs and a ladys kid looks at me and says mommy what is he doing and she says finding treasure..

So personaly. Thats some nice Treasure.

LT

 

[Urban Grund]

Those teeth are neat! I wish I could hunt by the Ocean.