Monday, 9 February 2026

Monday antics

Jon E finds a fossil

Mary finds a fossil dinosaur tooth

John S finds a fossil

Lisa finds a fossil

Adam H finds a fossil

Amber finds a fossil

Lisa agrees to have her photo take 

Amber shows why she is the Rocksaw Queen.

Rohan looks at a rock

A fossil toe.

John W, Alan and Corrie

Tim working

Alan T and Corrie

Alan E and Rohan squeeze sponges

We are not yet good at being a bucket brigade

Rohan looks for birds (modern dinosaurs)

Alan’s geology talk

John W and Doris

Rohan and Corrie

Alan’s geology tour

Alan’s geology pointers

Marion sweeps

John W and Doris get wet

Alan’s geology drawings

 

Day one fossil haul

Fossils on big rocks we carried from the beach

Other rock we carried from the beach

A little dinosaur vertebra that Alan E found
The “hole” you see is the neural canal.

 

Pretty plant fossils

 At Twin Reefs, we find more plants in our main fossil layers than we did at Flat Rocks. Here are some for you to admire. All scales in cm.

A 3D leaf

Cross section through a cone
(or just a weird coal splodge)

Little seed pod

Long thin plants

Leaf


Sunday, 8 February 2026

First Day at Site

 

The crew at work

Tim and Amber

John S and Noah

John W, Corrie and Alan T extract a rock

Claudia as Sponge Bob

Doris taking notes 

Fabulous Fossil Finders

Noah

Rohan

Alan E

 

Fashions by Marion

 Photos by Doris


Jon E rocks purple pants

Alan T as a grey puffer fish

Mary in flamboyant flamingo

Saturday, 7 February 2026

We’re here!

 The 2026 dig has started.

The tree in the back yard

Noah’s first fossil find

Jack designs our notice board

All set up and ready to go!