Otway Trip Day 1 - Mike's Team

View from the top

Fossil!




Another fossil!

Mike unpacks his lunch



Disappearing into the mist

Sean looks as he walks




Another fossil!

Pip in the background

Pretty rock!




Sean with a bit of Eric the Red



Pip and Sean

Brown river

Otway Trip Day 1 - Dave's team

The team setting out

Mary and Dave check out some nodules

Dave and Tim trek across the rocks

Dave and Mary up close on a conglomerate layer

Dean checks out a cliff

Mary and Tim forge on ahead

Mary and Tim disappear into the mist

Tim the intrepid

Mary looking...

Tim trekking

Mary deciding where to look next

Dean looks at the rock platform

Tim decides some height may help

Dave gets close to a wave

Dave treking

Dave and Tim in the distance

Everybody looking

Dean checks out some nice formations

Dave leans forward with his big pack

Photographing our fossil

The toe bone

Dave chips out the toe bone

Tim records the GPS

Tim records the GPS

The waves crash

Tim sits down to make more notes

Dean looks closely



Checking the GPS instructions

Tim checks the GPS instructions

Dean on some damp rocks

Dave chips and Tim points

Tim ready for action





Dave chips away



The diggers after the downpour

The diggers not smiling much

Our new booklet is here!

The new full colour dinosaur dreaming booklet is finally here.  It is the culmination of over 100 years of dinosaur hunting along the Bass Coast, not just the Flat Rocks site.

The book retails for $19.95, and is available right now through the Monash Science Centre.  Call in or ring 9905 1370 and Jenny will mail you out a copy (+$5.00 p+p).

Or if you're joining us at one of the upcoming dinosaur digs, you can get a copy from Wendy or Lesley.

Please tell your friends and family about the book.  It will make a great Christmas present for anyone interested in dinosaurs or fossils in general.

All proceeds from the sale of the book will go directly to funding the ongoing research into the Victorian Cretaceous.

2010 Field Report

Dinosaur Dreaming is pleased to announce that our 2010 Field Report has been published.  Friends and crew unable to attend the launch at the Museum last week should get theirs in the mail shortly.

Not that I'm biased or anything, but I think it looks great.  56 pages and over 20 separate authors.  Thanks to all contributors, to Alanna for layout, design and, well, making it all happen, and to Dave for letting us use his vollies for stapling and for giving us red wine and salty snacks when we really (really) needed them.

Note to Friends and Diggers

Friends of Dinosaur Dreaming and Dinosaur Dreaming crew past and present are reminded that the Field Report Presentation is this Saturday and the Melbourne Museum.
Where : Activity Rooms B and C, Ground Floor, Melbourne Museum
When: 1 pm to 3 pm Saturday 23 October 2010
If you are not a Friend of Dinosaur Dreaming you can join at http://dinosaurdreaming.monash.edu/friends/index.html.

Testing the new dig house

This weekend, a small group of dinosaur dreamers gave the new Cape Paterson dig house a dry run.

Big backyard for tents

The house has a big downstairs area

And a veranda

We broke rock in Lesley's driveway

Reprocessing

Anthony, Jillian and Paul work diligently

Peggy demoralises a rock.

We were a little distracted by the old newspapers used for wrapping the rocks that we reprocessed.


Andrew gets distracted by 2004

Jacqui reads an old quiz

Paul enjoys the sunshine

We did do some serious work! 

Jillian watches John and Anthony work




Mike guards a growing tower of empty boxes





My dino badge

Jacqui wins a FISH badge

Gerry shows support from the sidelines.

 

Dave feels the cold in the morning



The Field Report is coming along well.

Alanna works on the 2010 Field Report