Monday, 16 February 2026

Monday 16th

Tim shows us his footprint replicas

Alan E gets comfortable making cheese and biscuits
Photo by Lisa

Our resident dinosaur looking for snacks

Jõrg finds a fossil

Mary gazes out to sea

Sharyn joins the crew

Carrying buckets of rock up the hill

Buckets of rock waiting to go up the hill

Bailing

Corrie and Alan wait for the tide to go out

Oops got to site too early.
Anyone want to channel their inner King Canute?
 

Sunday, 15 February 2026

Sunday 15th

Afternoon tea is serious business.
Serious diggers enjoying a cuppa,

Don breaking rock

Wendy T squeezing sponges

She spies the camera!

 

Tim measures footprints

Tim happily examining a suspect

Tim circles the footprint and draws
an arrow indicating direction of movement

Tim uses Lego Technic pieces to model the
size of the print and the angle of the toes.
He can lift the model to see if it matches nearby prints


Saturday, 14 February 2026

Saturday 14th

Today on site we were visited by former Australian Chief Scientist Alan Finkel and journalist Ella Finkel.


Alan and Ella Finkel exploring the shore platform

John looking at rock

Ella Finkel chatting to Lisa

Alan Finkel talks to Marion

John bales water

Tim finds a fossil

 

Friday, 13 February 2026

Friday 13th

Adam makes the international symbol for
“I found a dinosaur tooth!”

Jörg trade for SpongeBob action

The crew at work

Jörg’s technique for squeezing the sponge

Adam stares out to sea

Alan E’s sponge squeezing technique

 

Fossils in the field

A pretty little fish jaw.
We know it is fish by the apical cap on the tooth crowns.

 
A chunky curly bone found by John W

A pretty vertebra found by Alan T

Part of the turtle shell in the hole 


 

Domestic chores still need to happen - photos by Corrie

 

The tearowel on the line through
the middle of the rock-breaking area

The crew ignoring the tea towels.
We can work around almost anything!