Ron's other interest is gold panning, and he gave some of us a demo, using gold bearing material he found in Georgia.
Ron found an unusual heart-shaped item which turned out to be a disk from a deer vertebra. It is very light-weight and recent, not a fossil.
Greg, turn around! They told me to quit taking pictures of people's rear ends!
What a group of tired, sweaty people. So where do we go to cool off and relax a while?
James had an opportunity to practice making a protective plaster jacket.
Fragments found here are still being identified. Look just above the yellow handle to see the first "rocks", then straight to the left. There are some more fragments in the upper right quadrant. Some are probably turtle.
At our second site, the water was high so a safety rope was necessary.