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 ABOUTfeatured: 30 Best Snorkeling Blogs Fun Ways to enjoy the caribbeanApr 6, 09 Comments Off
 curacao-fossils Hi Gang, our internet is still down so most of you will be getting this in the next few days. Many of you know I am in the fossil business and have asked me so many times if there was anything to be found in Curacao?? Well this is what we have, shells, and lots of them!! Unfortunately nothing rare and in most cases many of these fossil shells which are now embedded in solid limestone are still living in the ocean today and still look exactly the same, we call them extant species. For those of you interested Saint Joris is by far the best spot for finding this stuff. Most of the good specimens are about ten to twenty feet above the water line in the dark grey limestone cliffs that surround the waters edge. Your going need an assortment of chisels and a good hammer if you plan on doing some collecting, and that limestone can be as hard as concrete! I found a really nice area today that was completely loaded with these shells which are most likely tens of thousands of years old, they look pretty good for their age!
I ended up only taking Inca today because Indi started out the day on a bad note! As I was putting them in the car to leave our little troublemaker took off up the stairs to the neighbors house, ran inside, jumped on their couch and ate all their cat’s food, the lady was chasing her all over. So someone got to spend the morning in her crate. Inca and I hiked and took photos for three hours and I did find a few fossils that I myself will go back for and remove from the rock at a later date.
Our Curacao heat is finally back after almost six months, it’s still raining a little but nothing like it was.
I hurt my back yesterday lifting my dive gear into the car and today it’s really killing me. That’s about it, hope to be back online tomorrow, Sunny regards, Barry
04-05-2009
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