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These photos are from my Instagram feed and get updated every week.
One of the signs is up! Painting takes sooooo long π
I'm so excited to be part of the book launch of the latest title by @nz_writer ! Come along Sunday to the TΕ«ranga library in , I'll be bringing some fossils along as well. Ε«ranga
Some late night work on the new sign for the workshop. It's open Sundays 10am to 2pm at the Old School Collective in Waikuku π
Some functional fitness training at @thistlefit_ to show me the correct way to lift those heavy fossils without hurting myself π
New video is up! I found this awesome fish skull and retrieved it in a storm. It'd been CT scanned and I try and flip it over without breaking it π
We have both jaws!!! And so many teeth!
The skull has some teeth! An update photo on that fish skull I found over the weekend
I found a section of fish skull, heading out to retrieve it in the rain π
The big sign for the workshop is starting to take shape, now for the teal topcoat π
How long should I put it in rice to fix it? I forgot my camera at the beach and only realized it a few days later. π Looks like it's time for a new one! At least I got the SD card with the footage back. Thisnis the second camera Ive broken making YouTube videos, the first I drowned while I was crossing a river. @panasonic_nz does the warranty cover this? π€£
The billfish skull is back and not radioactive anymore after being neutron scanned at @ansto, thanks @dr_joseph_bevitt for all your efforts!
A huge thanks to everyone that visited the fossil workshop today, it was great meeting so many fossil enthusiasts! The kids prep area was super busy π
This Sat 25 May and Sun 26 May. Come and check out some of my fossil collection, there's a kids area for digging as well. I will have the turtle skull, massive crab, penguin, plesiosaur bones and many other fossils on display. It's in Waikuku, about 30 min north of Christchurch at the Old School Collective. There's a great cafe as well if you fancy a coffee.
I just got back from an amazing 6 day field trip into the hills near Culverden for Geo240. We mapped the area, made cross sections, found faults, found mice, and hit many, many rocks with our shiny new rockhammers. I learned so much in such a short time and met some really great people.
I've started setting up my fossil workshop and display area! It's a beautiful old school building at The Old School collective in Waikuku.
I had a great time talking about fossils at Te Papa tonight, thanks to everyone who came out to listen! A huge thanks to the team at Te Papa for organising everything and to the sign language people for doing an amazing job.
I'll be talking fossils this coming Thursday at 06 30pm, Level 4 Te Papa. I'll be bringing a number of fossils along including the turtle skull, giant crab and much more!
Such beautiful patterns in this bit of Cretaceous bone I found today.
Some beautiful fossil coconuts from Nortland in New Zealand, they are roughly 15 million years old. They are Cocos zeylandica and show New Zealand used to be quite a bit warmer. I visited a fellow fossil hunter and she kindly gave me these, I'll have to go find some myself one day The scientific info is from the GNS website
Yesterday, I braved the rain to go have a quick look for some fossils and found a large concretion that had just fallen out the cliff. It has some bone sticking out, which looks like the beak of a bony toothed bird (pelagornithid)!!