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Re: Mullet ,Bonepile and jcinpc score some coral
« Reply #30 on: May 25, 2010, 10:14:44 pm »
eddie, call me tomorrow. Took my son there after school for awhile but the rains hit pretty hard. The area you had noticed and mentioned has a trail camera up in the trees

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Re: Mullet ,Bonepile and jcinpc score some coral
« Reply #31 on: May 26, 2010, 12:54:45 am »

     OOOOh.....uh oh!  The hills hve eyes...... :o

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Re: Mullet ,Bonepile and jcinpc score some coral
« Reply #32 on: May 26, 2010, 12:14:32 pm »
Shucks! That ain't right. Oh well, I guess it's still a boat trip.
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Re: Mullet ,Bonepile and jcinpc score some coral
« Reply #33 on: May 26, 2010, 06:18:57 pm »
Here's a point from some of raw coral,that stuff is as hard as woodpecker lips.It will be on an arrow soon

Can't wait to dig in to some of the cooked stuff,stay tuned for points
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Re: Mullet ,Bonepile and jcinpc score some coral
« Reply #34 on: May 26, 2010, 07:00:11 pm »
 SWEET! I haven't had time to unload the wheelbarrel yet.
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« Reply #35 on: May 26, 2010, 10:01:03 pm »
U guys are lucky ducks!  How did u find that in the first place?

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Re: Mullet ,Bonepile and jcinpc score some coral
« Reply #36 on: May 26, 2010, 10:06:56 pm »
 Russ,  rocks are kinda scarce down here. The ones in the river is limerock and really smooth, unless there is fossil rib bones stuck in it. We just found this spot dragging the canoes through a rapid area when I felt a rough rock. I pulled it up and it was a coral head.

 It was just luck of the draw. For 10 years I've just stumbled and dragged through this area without checking on what I had been walking through. Kinda like not fishing at the boat landing; It's got to be better away from where you put in.
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Re: Mullet ,Bonepile and jcinpc score some coral
« Reply #37 on: May 26, 2010, 10:32:39 pm »
also we find rocks in our creeks and other deeper cutting rivers. Its kinda shallow here in Fl. so alot of fossils and corals are exposed, you just have to find the area

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Re: Mullet ,Bonepile and jcinpc score some coral
« Reply #38 on: May 27, 2010, 01:58:17 am »
Wow thats cool its not like me using Google earth finding a vein then going to look for it.  That is amazing how u found that and also much prettier rock than what I have here in NY.  The GOVT just shut down the Normanskill quarry and no ones aloud near it!  Aint that a pile of crap!  Now I gotta go and search outcrops and rivers again.  I wonder how much is down there?  Im gonna have to give u a shout next time I get down that way.  I think rock hunting is almost more addicting than Knapping isnt it?  Maybe its me..lol  Great story and awesome coral!

Have a good day!
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Re: Mullet ,Bonepile and jcinpc score some coral
« Reply #39 on: May 27, 2010, 08:05:54 am »
That's a fine little point there Roger - course everything you make is fine ;D. Russ, I'm the same way. Have more fun I think finding the rocks than I do turning them into something. If I ever get around FL again....
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Re: Mullet ,Bonepile and jcinpc score some coral
« Reply #40 on: May 27, 2010, 10:39:39 am »
the best luck I have had in finding coral WAS to follow the construction sites in different counties that I knew were ancient coral beds. When that slowed down so did my collecting of coral at that time. I found a killer coral site that covered about 60 acres, I found it when they dug for the water mains, I got about 5 tons of good coral there.About 3 ft down inthe trench was a 2 ft thick wall of ancient spalls that ran over 100 yards long.fire pits dotted that place, they were everywhere. I miss stuff like that. I took Claude and his girls there and we had a blast.

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« Reply #41 on: May 27, 2010, 12:56:46 pm »
Fantastic rocks, I don't even knap (yet) but those are pretty just to look at.
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Re: Mullet ,Bonepile and jcinpc score some coral
« Reply #42 on: May 27, 2010, 08:32:51 pm »
 I spalled some of mine this afternoon, I'll cook it up this weekend. And raw coral is sharp.

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Re: Mullet ,Bonepile and jcinpc score some coral
« Reply #43 on: May 27, 2010, 09:14:14 pm »

     Well if you were to wear real shoes, instead of those shower shoes........ ::)


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Re: Mullet ,Bonepile and jcinpc score some coral
« Reply #44 on: May 27, 2010, 09:39:39 pm »
haha, I do the same thing, I was just out back spalling in my flip flops, Roger does too. Its a Fl thing I guess. HEY EDDIE, isnt  your sand wet?