Bay Box LbNA #46694
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Add Location| Owner: | Mother Duck  |
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| Plant date: | Apr 18, 2009 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Chesapeake Beach |
| County: | Calvert |
| State: | Maryland |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | GirlScoutMomma |
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| Last found: | Mar 31, 2019 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Apr 18, 2009 |
This box is located in the municipal park just south of Chesapeake Beach that gives the first part of its name to the box. Yep, it is a drive-by, but there are SO MANY treasures to find in this park that hiking for the box seemed counter-productive.
Bring a bucket, a plastic bag, a colander, and anything else that strikes you for treasure-hunting in the sand after boxing. This park is renowned for its Miocene-era marine fossils. The afternoon we planted this box, we found dozens of teeth, including 1-inch-long porpoise tooth, whale bones, and turtle shell fragments, among other things, and another fossil-hunter pulled a 3-inch megalodon (extinct great white shark) tooth out of the water!
To find your first fossil tooth, park in the parking lot and start walking along the paved path toward the shore. At the bottom of the hill you will pass a small marsh pond on the right. Just past this pond, take the dirt path uphill. You will go by a small tree growing inside a larger one. Where the ground levels off, the path will veer to the left, skirting another rise. Do not go this way. Instead, skirt the rise to the right and head to the fallen log lying E-W over a much fainter trail, overlooking the marsh pond. Have a seat. In the east end of the log is your first treasure.
When you’re done stamping in, go back out to the path and continue to the beach. Sift around. There is more there than meets the eye at first glance!
Bring a bucket, a plastic bag, a colander, and anything else that strikes you for treasure-hunting in the sand after boxing. This park is renowned for its Miocene-era marine fossils. The afternoon we planted this box, we found dozens of teeth, including 1-inch-long porpoise tooth, whale bones, and turtle shell fragments, among other things, and another fossil-hunter pulled a 3-inch megalodon (extinct great white shark) tooth out of the water!
To find your first fossil tooth, park in the parking lot and start walking along the paved path toward the shore. At the bottom of the hill you will pass a small marsh pond on the right. Just past this pond, take the dirt path uphill. You will go by a small tree growing inside a larger one. Where the ground levels off, the path will veer to the left, skirting another rise. Do not go this way. Instead, skirt the rise to the right and head to the fallen log lying E-W over a much fainter trail, overlooking the marsh pond. Have a seat. In the east end of the log is your first treasure.
When you’re done stamping in, go back out to the path and continue to the beach. Sift around. There is more there than meets the eye at first glance!