A family outing of exploring on a privately owned ranch in February 2009 was began with high hopes of finding an arrowhead in a dry creek bottom. I actually didn't have my hopes too high, figuring if we even found a broken point it would be exciting enough for the kids to make the outing worthwhile. Actually, just getting outdoors as a family would be well worth the outing. And it was cold enough not to have to worry about the kids coming across one of the cottonmouth snakes that this area is known for. Not that these woods were free of danger, we actually ran into a pack of wolves shortly after we started walking up the creek. One of them even growled at us before turnibg tail and running!

As I've often said, you never know what you are going to find on this type of field trip!

Morhis Points are middle archaic points which are only found in the Middle Texas Coastal plains area. This creek is just an hour away from the prehistorically occupied Morhiss Mound site near Victoria, Texas. Normally this creek flows continuously, so this point was submerged for an unknown time. The droughts in the area had allowed the creek to quit flowing temporarily, completely exposing the point for Melody and Emma to find.

Congratulations to Melody and Emma on thier fine find! For the record, Melody has found several nice arowheads while packing Emma around papoose style. This is her best find yet, no doubt, with or wothout Emma's help!

I wish to thank the undisclosed property owner who allowed us to explore this ranch together, not to mention letting us use his dog. Also, thanks to the gang of explorers pictured above for getting out and having fun together!