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Tuesday, 28 February 2012
The day was not as rainy as we first thought
Because of the inclement weather, today we decided to break rock at the house. We found what we believe to be the first mammal jaw from this site in 3 years! John Wilkins made the actual find, but some controversy exists because the bone was immediately behind a blue circle which we think Mary made. We await with some excitement a preliminary identification once Dave gets it back to the museum.
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| Wendy's great butterfly hat |
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| Lesley and Dave discussing mammal jaws |
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| A sauropod gazes over the ocean |
Monday, 27 February 2012
Rain
It's beginning to look like we will break no rock at all today...
When diggers can't dig...
When diggers can't dig...
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| The artistic types get busy |
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| We entertain guests with a cup of tea |
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| The mechanical types refurbish the pumps |
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| The crew tries to understand the cooking roster |
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| The tenters try to get everything dry |
Week 2 Bones of the day
Saturday 18th - Kat's lovely thing
Sunday 19th - Jocelyn's verty cross section
Monday 20th - Lesley's lovely ornithopod tooth
Tuesday 21st - John W's theropod tooth
Wednesday 22nd - John S's theropod tooth
Thursday 23rd - Mike C's small ornithopod tooth from rock collected in 1995
Friday 24th - Jocelyn's lovely ischium
Sunday 19th - Jocelyn's verty cross section
Monday 20th - Lesley's lovely ornithopod tooth
Tuesday 21st - John W's theropod tooth
Wednesday 22nd - John S's theropod tooth
Thursday 23rd - Mike C's small ornithopod tooth from rock collected in 1995
Friday 24th - Jocelyn's lovely ischium
Sunday, 26 February 2012
After work
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| Pip enjoys two drinks whilst Rohan and Mary tackle the crossword Thanks to Mike Cleeland for the image |
Friends' Day
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| Beautiful weather |
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| More beautiful weather |
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| My parents came to visit |
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| Wrapping fossils |
Today over 70 Friends of Dinosaur Dreaming came to visit us on our annual Friends' day. We ran a couple of geology tours (thanks Rohan and Roger), a talk about "Noddy" an articulated partial dinosaur skeleton (thanks Dave) and a table full of fossil specimens (a special big thanks to Lisa who worked there all day).
Fossil finds
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| Wendy T is excited by her find |
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| Wendy T's fossil |
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| Gerry finds another one |
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| Gerry's vertebra |
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| Turtle humerus from hole |
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| Wendy W's fan shapedbone |
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| Limb bone from hole |
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| Lesley and Mary stabalise the limb bone |
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| End of limb bone |
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| Middle of limb bone |
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| Vertebra |
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| Bone found in shore platform |
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| Catherine's first bone |
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| Catherine's first bone |
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| Nalani seems happy that Doris has found something good |
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| Doris finds a skully frag |
Another spontaneous overnight sculpture
Mixed media: Jenga tiles, ballons, dino puppet, sunglasses.
Artist: unknown
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| Left view |
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| Right view |
Artist: unknown
25 Feb Fossil finds
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| John with his find |
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| John's find |
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| A limb bone from the hole |
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| A big turtly bone |
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| Another limb bone |
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| A dark curly bone |
Friday, 24 February 2012
Fossil finds
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| Big limb bone from the hole |
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| The limb bone fell out of the rock! |
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| Jacquie Smith shows off her bone |
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| Jacquie's complete bone |
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| Curly bone |
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| Jacqui Sanders' find |
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| Jacqui Sanders finds another one |
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| Jacqui's find |
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| Mary finds a limb |
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| Mary's limb |
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| Jacquie Smith finds another fossil |
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| Jacquie's find |
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| Jocelyn's possible ischium |
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| Jocelyn with her precious find |
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