Dinosaur Dreaming: May 2011

Tuesday, 24 May 2011

Mice

Lesley reports that mice broke into her shed and ate all of the stored Inverloch supplies. They especially liked the toilet paper. Apparently, they ate all of the tinfoil off some leftover chocolate eggs, but left the chocolate behind. Which does beg the question - how on earth did we manage to have leftover chocolate at the end of a dig?

Likely dig dates

We have discussed some likely dig dates for the 2011/12 Field Season.

Field Report day in mid October (maybe the 16th)
Training day at Flat Rocks early November (maybe the 6th)
Flat Rocks dig 3 weeks in February (maybe starting the 11th since that gives us the best tides)
Eric the Crayfish dig 10 days in late March (maybe the 24th but we'll need to check with Bimbi)

Regular volunteers and Friends of Dinosaur Dreaming should hear from us shortly.

Monday, 23 May 2011

The old way to map the site

As part of his project, Dean has us reconstruct the old way of taking position readings at site. Here are the photos.

Mary uses a direction disc

Mary adjusts the disc

Dean holds a height stick

Mary measures

Sunday, 22 May 2011

Flat Rocks mapping weekend - Day 2

Sunday involved more digging as Dean maps the outline of the old "main" hole, the position of Gerry's Rock, and the Footprint.

Mapping the site

Dean uses the total station

Alanna digs

Gerry on his rock

Stuart stands on a rock

Dean takes a reading

Dean confers with Lesley

Dean takes another reading

The crew

Flat Rocks mapping weekend - Day 1

Dean was able to borrow some surveying equipment from the TAFE, so we took the opportunity to help him and his friend Stuart produce a detailed map of the Flat Rocks site.