Good to hear from you Nathan and Joyce.
Tin Cup Mountain isn’t as challenging or as imposing as Lankin Dome but it also has fairy shrimp in some rock pools. There are other rock pools there but I didn’t have a chance to observe them when they had water. Coincidentally, I was there 3 weeks ago finally collecting GPS coordinates for more accurate locations of the Tin Cup Mountain rock pools. My previous map-based estimates were off by 24-132 m. If you’re interested, you should be able to find them now. I hope to have the new data uploaded within a week (check the “Updates” page). The pools were dry at the time so I didn’t have a chance to explore for more fairy shrimp. At Tin Cup Mountain, you can also enjoy viewing horses and pronghorns, as I did on this trip.

Have you heard of fairy shrimp near Stone Mountain? In 1991, Denton Belk wrote me the following. “During the Crustacean Society/American Society of Zoologists meeting in Atlanta this next month, I am going to try to collect specimens and pond soils with eggs of Branchinella lithaca. This is a fairy shrimp described from Stone Mountain rock pools in 1935 and never again reported on. I have unconfirmed reports from a biologist in Georgia that there may be other populations on a similar granite dome in a state nature preserve near Stone Mountain.”

I’ve been lucky. It has rained at opportune times so my pond hasn’t dried up. Now I seem to be in deeper water with few worries. May you always be blessed with adequate water depth.