I live in arcadia Fl. I have noticed about 8 or 12 people with expensive vehivles digging fossils just south of the HWY 70 bridge on the peace river, for quite a few days.
I dig about 600 yards further downstream, I have talked to the group several times about finds. Today I talked to the same gentle man again. I mentioned a book I have called " Fossililing in Fl., a guide for diggers and divers" By Mark Renz.
He ask me how I liked it, it was pretty good ,I said.
He goes in his truck and produces a book and points to a pic in the inner jacket, ask me if it looks familiar?
It is you, I said!
Small world! He gave(gratis) 2 books to me. Giants in the storm and desert sharks, about his trip to peru to hunt fossil sharks in the Peruvian desert.
An all around great guy! I need to email him to see if he needs a grunt of a guide in arcadia! He charges about 60 $ for guide services. I bet he makes about 4 to 5 hundred a day guiding vacationers to fossil hunting grounds!
What a great guy to meet!