Thursday, 16 February 2017

Wed 15th - interesting visitors

Today some researchers from Deakin University came to visit us - they are looking at how to make a Virtual Reality education experience in a real-world environment and are going to use our site and our dinosaurs in that.  There are all sorts of challenges like waves (noisy and moving), wind, sun and cloud cover, shadows and jackhammers so we are keen to see what they can make of all the data they collected.

Today was the first day we found confirmed teeth - Mary found a lovely ornithopod tooth, Allen S found a cute little plesiosaur tooth, and Steve found a tooth that will have to wait until Lesley gets here to be identified.  I think that Alan T might have found a theropod tooth under the weeds but pretty much no-one agrees with me so we will need to wait for that outcome as well.

And the weather god smiled on us once again and we did very little digging!
Allen S finds a fossil
Mary finds a fossil
Chris finds a fossil
Steve gets interviewed by the ABC
Mel finds a fossil
Mike finds a fossil
John S finds a fossil

Tue 14th - More digging

Dean and Nova find a new rock
Digging...
Digging...
Digging...
Sharyn finds a fossil
Kylie finds a fossil
Chris finds a fossil
Dani finds a fossil

Week 2 Crew Photo

Thanks to the visiting Team from Deakin University for taking the photo!

Monday, 13 February 2017

Mon 13 - high tides

Today was windy and showers and the tide had filled in our hole overnight.  So we spent a few hours digging it out again.  Then the tide came in about 1:30 and filled it in again.  So we called it a day and started thinking about what to do about this tomorrow.
Digging...
Digging...
Digging...

Sun 12 - Sand and Wind

Chris finds a fossil
Nova's angle-grinding lesson
Grooving out with PPE
Corrie wears anything she can for warmth
Steve cuts some fossils out

Sat 11 - Changover day

Steve applies paraloid
Nova finds a small femur
Ellie finds a bone

Saturday, 11 February 2017

William Loads

William Loads (of Atlascopcosaurus loadsi fame) dropped by the dig site yesterday.  It was great to meet him and hear the tales of Dinosaur Cove days...
William and Mike