Prospecting The Arch

Pip gets up close and personal with a small green copperhead snake while prospecting with Mike at The Arch on Friday.
Odd that snakes are seen at the bottom of these cliffs so often.

Dredging Test



John trials Paul's dredge design

Cold wet work

Sand is moved

Constant adjustments

Gerry, Lesley, Mike, Pip and Harrion watch

Looks easy

The loneliness of a dredger

A path under the beach

Gerry & John make adjustments

Back to the white dredge

The view from the top of the cliff

Carrying the pump up the steps

Smiles in the car park

Mike's surprise birthday party





Guess what the present is!



Mike's 53rd Birthday wa celebrated on Phillip Island with a surprise party and sparkling mutton bird!

Images and fossils from the Otways March 2012

Looking at rocks

Fossil!

Fossil!

Pointing at rocks

Fossil!

Dregdes

John has now produced not one but three dredges that might be able to shift the sand for us at Inverloch.  We're pretty excited to see how they will go, and may have to start running a pool for which one works best.

Time Travellers on ABC TV

Check out the great site the ABC has developed about Australia's pre-history: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/timetravellers/#/Cretaceous.  I couldn't find a lot about the Victorian Cretaceous on there (they seem have more stories about trackways than body fossils - perhaps Dr Tony Martin influenced them?), but we're in the TV show (if you freeze frame and stare at the background you can even see me) and there are some pictures of our small-bodied ornithopods.

Sedimentology 1011

 

Alan takes us on a geologic tour
of Eric the Red West

Ripple marks

Sandstone overlaying claystone

Mike's beach find

I shall call him Squishy and he shall be mine and he shall be my Squishy.

(Lisa will ask the Marine experts at the museum what this is soon)

Where are the cups???

Seriously, if you saw this lying on
 a beach would you pick this up?

Cheers!

This is why we don't forget to
take cups down to site!

Funny crew photo




The crew acts silly on command.
Then again, they act silly not on command too.

Donation from SP-AusNet

Dean Wright, one of our long-term diggers, works for the utility company SP-AusNet.  SP-AusNet has a Cornerstone Program to promote employees' involvement in Community based activity. Any SP-AusNet employee who volunteers his or her free time to a charity or non-profit organisation can ask for a grant. Dinosaur Dreaming was one of the beneficiaries selected. Here we see  Dean presenting Lesley Kool with a $500 cheque at the Flat Rocks site.

Thanks to Dean for setting this up and SP-AusNet for their generous donation.

Otways photos from Mike

A hint?

Rib(?) from Point Franklin

Lungfish tooth Point Lewis

Scour channel at Point Lewis

Otways food update

Pip in the kitchen

Results are in for the Best Meal of the Week at the Eric the Red West dig at Cape Otway.
Jumbuck Stew 20 votes
Bubble n Squeak 15

Anzac biscuits

Dave waits for dinner

Spaghetti Bolognese 12

Jumbuck Stew

John celebrates his dredge

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Doris, Wendy and John

Doris and John

Paul the dredge expert talks to
John and Doris

Ty, Doris, Paul, John and Lesley

John and his hoses

Lesley and Dean watch John

Dredging

Wendy W finds a cool dino bone