House-hunting

A few hardy core volunteers checked out a couple of houses that may be suitable for the 2011 dig (in Wonthaggi and in Harmer's Haven).  Those who were there have, of course already determined which rooms they would sleep in.
It's going to be tough to find a house that will sleep enough people (8 inside is probably a minimum) and has room for tents and rock-breaking areas.  And we really want sewerage and town water connected.  Any digger who has a good idea about where we could find this sort of place please get in contact with Lesley or myself (or leave a comment on the blog and we'll contact you).

Australian Geographic

Check out the latest issue (Jul - Sep 2010) Australian Geographic for an article on Australian dinosaurs including some photos and stories from our dig.

A couple of snippets of Victorian Cretaceous are on-line focusing on the "T. Rex cousin":
http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/trex-relative-turns-up-down-under.htm
http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/first-illustration-of-australias-trex-cousin-revealed.htm

Planning Meeting in Tooradin

A few of the core crew got together in Tooradin today to talk about 2011, the Bass Coast Booklet and the Field Report.  It's beginning to look like we may have to find a new house to stay at in 2011.  We had rented the same Inverloch house since we started, so that would be a big change!

Jacqui and Andrew get married

Jacqui Tumney and Andrew Stocker, dig volunteers since 2007, got married in a quiet ceremony on Friday May 14th. I twisted their arms so they have shared a few photos. Congratulations!

2011 planning

Good news for our regular readers - After much discussion about whether it was time to have a break from Inverloch, we will probably have a dig in February 2011. We still have a number of details to work through, but here's the general outline of what we are planning:

• it would be a smaller than usual dig, with experienced DD volunteers only
• we would dig at Flat Rocks unless Dr Tom Rich finds another site in the Strzelecki (maybe inland?) that we should explore
• it might be a shorter dig - maybe 3 weeks instead of 4
• we'd have a Friends Day as in previous years (remember you can join Friends of Dinosaur Dreaming at http://dinosaurdreaming.monash.edu//friends/index.html).

I'll blog more information as it comes it hand.

Tony Martin's Great Cretaceous Walk

Tony Martin, an American ichnologist, is walking the Victorian Cretaceous coastline looking for trace fossils. Follow his journey on http://greatcretaceouswalk.blogspot.com/

Sci Am talks about our Tyrannasaur

Here's a link to the Scientific American article about the tyrannasaurid from Dinosaur Cove:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=new-australian-dinosaur-fossil-show-2010-03-25