Tuesday, 26 April 2011

Alanna and Wendy work on the field report

Alanna and I decided that Easter weekend would be a great opportunity to break the back of the 2011 Field Report, and retreated to the quietness of Avenel to concetrate on planning, writing and choosing images.
But first we had to pick the vegetables ripe in the garden:
Then we had to do the crossword (The Age cryptic, of course)

Then perhaps a little bubbly...
The garden needed watering...

Lunch needed assembling...
Time for a little more bubbly...
And then finally a bit of work on the report...


Perhaps some more bubbly...


Dirt needed to be shovelled (onto the garden bed that John and Nick helped build last Christmas)

Until the sun set and we had to call it a day.
We started early the following dawn...
... on a Road Trip to Koonoomoo



Morning tea at the big strawberry

We had to stop at the Cheese Factory!

And now of course, I'm updating the blog and Alanna is learning how to knit
So the Field Report is in safe hands, although we well might still be laying it out he night before it gets printed and distributed!

Saturday, 16 April 2011

A dino stood here...

Late last year Sean Wright and Alan Tait visited Dinosaur Cove and found a loose slab of rock with what may well be dino footprints on it.  Last month Alan retrieved them from site and carried 45kg of rock up the cliff and back to the museum!  We eagerly await news from the researchers.
Thanks to Sean for the great photo!

Sunday, 3 April 2011

Lisa wraps fossils

Fossils found 3 April

Cate finds a beautiful vertebra 
Lisa finds a tiny smudge
Cate finds a theropod tooth and Roger shows it to Sharyn

Otways 3 April

The crew shelters from the wind

Roger goes for a walk

... and gets stranded on a rock
Sharyn and Cate bucket rubble

The crew smiles for the camera

Fossils found 2 April

Sharyn's find
Rohan's find

Wendy's find