Early morning

When we got to site at 7:00 am this morning we were greeted with the sight of a pod of dolphins playing off the coast.  What a great workplace!


Setting up the pumps

Dawn

Jocelyn cleaning the "rock" rock

Rohan, Mary and Sue raking seaweed

The ornithopod hand puppet
checks out the fossil table

After a hot day rockbreaking

Mike recites a poem

Pip enacts Mikes song

Gerry kicks back

Jocelyn does some whiteboard art

Rohan plays guitar

Fossil finds

John shows off his tooth

John's little theropod tooth

Kat shows off her limb bone

Kat's limb bone

Showers

Today the tide kept us off the beach until 2:00 pm.  Just as we arrived at site at 2:14, it started raining.  Gerry was rather happy about this, since he had bet some of the crew that it would shower by 2:30, and hence earned himself a bottle of red.  So we scrambled down to the beach, retrieved the rock we'd hidden to work on down there, and brought it back to the house.  Soon after that, it stopped raining, so we broke rock for the rest of the day.  Didn't find a huge number of bones and teeth, though.
Tomorrow is a full day at the house, and then we start early mornings on Thursday.
Last night a few of the diggers decided to check out the local pub after dinner.  However, when it's not school holidays, the local pub shuts very very early on weekdays.  A walk on the beach was a bit of a consolation.

Fossil finds

John with his find

John's theropod tooth (see the serrations?)

Lesley's tooth cleaned up

Close up of Lesley's tooth

Tip of Lesley's tooth

Week 2 crew photo

Jacquie Jacqui Sue Gerry Wendy Rohan Dean Lesley
Mary Joceyn John Norman Mike John Gerry

The crew was told to "act like a dinosaur".  It's surprising how many of us decided to be carnivores.
Thanks to Lisa for taking the photo

Fossil finds

Sue with her find

Sue's little fossil under the microscope

Jocelyn admires her fossil

Jocelyn's fossil

Jacqui is very excited about her find

Jacqui's fossil

Lesley holds her tooth

Lesley's big theropod tooth

Gerry holds his find

Wendy's dense little bone

Dean's little curly thing

Gerry's curly fossil

An interesting bone from the hole

A foot bone from the hole

Lesley's tooth under the microscope

Gerry's skully bit under the microscope