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South Carolina Fossil Fair
Saturday, October 29, 2011
A great opportunity to speak with collectors and
learn about this educational hobby
presented by the South Carolina Fossil Association and hosted
by Ocean Lakes.
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The Annual South Carolina Fossil & Shell Fair will be held on Saturday, October
29, 2011, 9 AM until 3 PM at the Ocean Lakes Family Campground's Recreation
Building, Myrtle Beach, SC (only 160 feet from the Atlantic Ocean). Admission
to the event is free, as well as free fossil identification and a fossil hunt!
Photo: A fossil mastodon teeth (related to the elephant).
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Experts will be on hand from the Smithsonian Institute's
National Museum of Natural History for free identification of your fossils! Museum
Specialists from the Department of Paleobiology include Robert W. Purdy, Museum
Specialist, Fossil Fish; David J. Bohaska, Museum Specialist, Fossil Whales; and Frederick
V. Grady, Museum Specialist, Pleistocene Mammals.
Photo: Museum Specialists from the Department of Paleobiology
at the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of Natural History. (left to right)
Frederick V. Grady, Pleistocene Mammals; Robert W. Purdy, Fossil Fish; David J.
Bohaska, Fossil Whales.
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Many fossil collections will be on display by members of the Myrtle Beach Fossil
Club, the Grand Strand Shell Club and more. The fossil displays will include shark
teeth, whalebones, sand dollars, horse teeth and other fossils from this area. Collections
will also include fossils from the South Carolina Lowcountry area, North Carolina
and Florida. Shell collections will also be on display!
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Participate "hands-on" in our mock archeological dig site.
David J. Bohaska, Museum Specialist - Fossil Whales, will demonstrate how to prepare
a plaster cast to move a specimen from the dig site to a museum. Then learn
how how a fossil is removed from the plaster and prepared for display - help clean!
Located on the beachfront inside Ocean Lakes near the 3 Crosses. This activitiy
is hands-on for ages 6+ with no charge. There will be two mock digs: 11 AM and again
at 2 PM.
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Visitors will have the opportunity to hunt for sharks teeth
in material from the PCS Phosphate Mine! Located inside the Ocean Lakes Recreation
Building. Open all day - no charge.
Awesome Halloween Fun! Even though Halloween has come
and gone, there's something spooky about all those bones. Hang out with The
Skeleton Sandy Starfish in his lifesize form. (He'll be standing by the black
Cadillac hearse inside the Rec. Building.) Fossil Collector Bob Johnson transports
his ol' bone in style.
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TO DISPLAY: Collectors
interested in displaying at this year's show please contact Ocean Lakes Marketing
Department at (843) 828-4833.
Fossil collectors welcome!
If you need a place to stay just call Ocean Lakes for reservations:
To reserve a campsite: 1-877-510-1413, rent one of our 300 rental houses:
1-800-845-2229
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