Field Trips

Join us on fossil-hunting field trips! Florida's prehistoric land mass has been often underwater and without eruptive geological forces such as volcanoes or mountain formations, so developed few collectable minerals. But Florida is rich in fossils from the time when mastodons, mammoths, saber cats, giant sloths and Volkswagen-sized armadillos roamed the land, and sharks, whales and dugongs (related to today's manatees) swam over the parts of our state then underwater.

We travel to several sites along the Peace River, near Arcadia and Wauchula, Florida, for fossil collecting in the river shallows.

We go to phosphate mines, for dry-land collecting of fossil shark teeth, horse teeth, whale and dugong bones, and petrified wood.

We go to the beaches for shark tooth collecting. However, other fossils, such as horse teeth, are found. However, artifacts have been collected by sharp-eyed rock hounds.

And we're always looking for new places!

Please check out the articles on the recent club sponsered field trips.

All field trips are for members only. Please check Events Calendar for upcoming field trips.