What a great trip with the kids! We put-in at the Gardner boat ramp on the Peace River. John and I took our singles and the boys took the tandem.
The river is pretty wide and the current is not too swift for the half mile upstream paddle to Charley's Creek, the place to find all the fossils.
The high banks are a good place to stop for lunch. Watch out for fire ants and keep an eye out for other wildlife.
John made us screens to filter through the gravel at the bottom of the creek bed with materials from Lowe's. They worked perfectly. We used the boy's beach shovels to scoop up the gravel and sift through the screens. We found lots and lots of small shark's teeth. We are still looking for a Megalodon tooth. This trip was done in January based on the photograph dates..I do recall another trip we made to this exact location before when it was during rainy season and the creek was too flooded to do this. We saw a huge cow in the water and a floating ant colony..also the water was moving much faster.
The creek is shallow enough to let the boys wander and explore..they had so much fun looking for fossils. We can't wait to go back when the water gets lower again.
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