Museum Victoria and Monash University have conducted “Dinosaur Dreaming” digs since 1995. Originally at the Flat Rocks site outside Inverloch, Victoria, it has evolved to include localities along the Bass and Otway Coasts. Since 2008 this blog has shared images and stories of crew taking part in excavations, fossil bones recovered, and fossilly things we get up to between digs. The most recent dig took place at Twin Reefs for 3 weeks in February 2025.
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)
Monday, 23 May 2011
The old way to map the site
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.