Swim O'clock Offshore (Sun Mar 21) - photos by Dean

 

The crew spaced out on the beach

Setting up

What a view!

Mary on her rock

Ankylosaur Point (Sat 20 March)

View from site

Nick, Alison and John clean rocks

Partial Lungfish tooth found by Alan

Interesting fossil found by Lesley

Lesley with her fossil find

Melissa searching the rock that John washed

Melissa searching the cliff

Melissa and Lesley discuss tactics

Melissa, Mary and John

Alison finds a good sitting rock

Miklos finds a probable turtle limb

Noddyland redux (day 2)

Crew at work (photo by Fotini)

Melissa finds a great curly fossil

Melissa's curly fossil

An interesting tiny fossil

Hollow shaft

Noddyland

 Today we sampled Noddyland. Not a lot of bones found...

Nick and Fotini discuss angle grinder options

Fotini trims a fossil

Rohan, Mike and Melissa plan next steps

Ruairidh and Tom refine strategy whist Rohan breaks rock

Melissa and Mike looking at rock

Rohan finds a fossil

Ruairidh wields a sledgehammer 

Rohan’s fossil

Mary Anning

Today we sampled the Mary Anning site (between Inverloch and our Flat Rocks site). Not a lot of bones, but better than yesterday. What we called site C (our third sample) is rather promising.

Lesley looks happy with her “bone of the day”

Lesley’s ankylosaur scute.

Melissa’s Mine

Today we sampled the Melissa’s Mine site near Inverloch. It was voted “Meh” by most of the small crew. We found turtle scraps and only one nice bone. But it was good to be out on the beach again!

Mike’s bone (best of the day!)

Mike shows off his find

Melissa with her find from further down the beach

The beach is beautiful

Joerg with his find

Honey locality

 Since Melissa found 19 bones in one small layer, we needed a to mobilize a small crew to extract them.

Whilst down there, we found a few more bones including an ornithopod jaw fragment.