About Shore Find

I'm Laura, a local here in Wrightsville Beach, and about a year ago fossil and shell hunting became something I found myself quite fascinated by. My partner and I began hunting together — long walks on Wrightsville Beach, Surf City, Myrtle Beach, and everywhere in between, eyes on the sand hoping to find what everyone dreams of finding: a Megalodon tooth.

The problem was, every find came with the same question: what kind of tooth is this? Is this even a tooth, or is it slag, a weathered rock? I'd come home with a bag of "maybe somethings" and no good way to find out — no easy tool, no local reference, nothing built for the specific beaches we were walking. I used other apps but often found myself questioning the results.

So I built one. I'm not a developer by trade, so I found whatever resources I could to make this happen, because I wanted the app I wished existed — something that could look at what I found and actually tell me what it was, right there on the beach. Geotag it, let others know where common finds were, update me on tide times so I didn't have to Google every day. Even give weather updates.

Shore Find is for the locals who've hunted these shorelines for years and want a tool they can trust. It's for the experts and collectors who know more than any app ever will and who I hope will help make this a truly powerful resource and educational tool. And it's for the tourists and first-timers who have never picked up a fossil in their life but might, after one good find, become fascinated with it the way I did.

Because the more people who understand what's beneath their feet, the more people who care about protecting it. Every fossil tells a story about our coastline's past — and every person who learns to see that is one more person invested in keeping our oceans and wildlife healthy for the future.