NickG Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 I’m down in southern Maryland for the weekend. With the blowout storms earlier today, would Purse State Park or Flag Ponds State Park be better hunting tomorrow morning? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizmo Posted March 24 Share Posted March 24 You'll find many more shark teeth and fossils at Purse. Both will probably be crowded and the waves will be at gale force on the bay, go very early. 1 November, 2016 April, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickG Posted March 24 Author Share Posted March 24 Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcoSr Posted March 24 Share Posted March 24 I've been to the BLM property (Blue Bluff) just upriver from Purse Park during a crazy blowout with the water hundreds of feet from the cliffs. It literally looked like in movies when Moses parted the Red Sea. I had visions of croc skulls, turtle carapaces/plastrons, large Otodus, but I found less than on a normal tide. There was sand/mud not even rocks out to where the water was, and without the wave action close to the cliffs less than normal was exposed there. That was years ago, so maybe the bottom has changed, but if I went to that area on a blowout I would enter Purse State Park, follow the trail to the Potomac River, and then head down river as far as I could go. There might be rocks down that way with trapped fossils rather than just sand/mud. Marco Sr. 1 "Any day that you can fossil hunt is a great day." My family fossil website Some Of My Shark, Ray, Fish And Other Micros My Extant Shark Jaw Collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickG Posted March 24 Author Share Posted March 24 Ultimately I had a nice two hour morning at Flag Ponds. It was cold and windy but I enjoyed myself. A few samples of shark and ray teeth… it was a very good day for coral lovers though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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