The Grand Strand isn't famous for fossil beach hunting — but it should be. The same offshore phosphate horizon that feeds Cherry Grove and North Myrtle drops small black teeth onto the wrack line after every onshore blow. Best at the inlets (Cherry Grove channel, Murrells Inlet) where shell hash concentrates.
Prime conditions today. Best window opens around the 1:31 PM low (0.3 ft, likely 0.2 ft above NOAA → less beach). Light S winds (4 mph) — calm surface, easy spotting; seas 2–3 ft, some stir.
Next 3 days: Tomorrow is the pick (98); Mon runs cooler at 80.
Plan around the prime low-tide window. 5.3ft swing · spring tide · low 1:31 PM · post-storm · +6 event boost.
Impact on visibility and stir-up over the next 5 days.
The Hunt Score blends tide range, lunar phase, daylight timing, recent stir, wind setup, and surf.
Exceptional. Don't sit on this one.
We are deliberate about which factors to include. These are not currently in the model:
If you think we should add one of these, log a hunt with notes — every rated outcome helps us decide which signals actually predict tooth count.
Walk the upper wrack line on a falling tide, especially the day after a 15+ mph onshore wind. Concentrate at inlet mouths and at recent beach-renourishment fill (newly pumped sand often contains teeth).
Public beach access points throughout Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle, Cherry Grove, Murrells Inlet, and Pawleys Island. All free, open dawn-dusk.
Open beach surface collection is fine. State law prohibits removing live wildlife and certain shells (whelks under size limits).
Trophy = headline find · Rare = real score · Uncommon = some trips · Common = most trips.
The beachcomber's bonus round — what else the geology gives up.
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