North Carolina Shell Club Meeting
November 7 - 9, 2008
Location:
Museum of Coastal Carolina
21 East 2nd St.
Ocean Isle Beach, NC
Directions: Follow the signs from Rt 17 to Ocean Isle Beach. The museum is to the left of the main road as you come over the bridge into town on. Second St. is the road just before the ocean front road. Turn left and you will see the museum on your left within a block. It is a white building with a large parking lot that you will enter just before the museum. Entry is from the rear of the building.
Friday, November 7
Registration 7 PM
Meeting 7:30 PM
Start of Silent Auction
Feature Program: The speaker will be member Doug Wolfe presenting a travelogue slide show of his trip to South Africa in 2003. The presentation is “Some Shells and Other Wildlife From South Africa.”
A new feature this year is a preview of lots to be auctioned Saturday night will be displayed for viewing at Fridays’ meeting. The silent auction will be set up and bidding may begin at the Friday meeting.
Saturday, November 8
A field collecting trip to a marl pit near Old Dock will be offered for members and their guests. Details as to time and location will be provided Friday evening.
The Old Dock site features oceanic deposits from the Pleistocene Age, Waccamaw Formation. Finds in past years have included, Busycon (whelks), Fasciolarids (horse conchs) and numerous, huge, spiny jewel boxes (picture a Florida spiny jewel box on steroids) The site is full of mollusk species many tropical in nature. Vertebrate fossils such as shark teeth are not unheard of but scarce. This is a shell lovers paradise.
Collecting is by scavenging piles of marl and can be preformed by walking, crawling or mild climbing. No age minimum or limit.
Saturday Night Meeting
Registration 7 PM
Meeting 7:30 PM
The Saturday meeting is the fund raising auction.
The auction is fun and lively. Auctioneers John Timmerman, Doug Wolfe and Nancy Timmerman keep the event fast and lively.
The silent auction concludes at the end of the live auction.
