ROCK!?!? are you hiding a fossil NO!!!

Last week we went to Castlepoint for a fossil hunting trip. It was really exciting because dad came with us. It was really cool. Dad and I climbed up Castle Rock it was really high. Here is a picture of the view, you can nearly see South America. Just squint!

We found some barnacle fossils, oyster fossils and scallop fossils. There were so many it was like a cheese grater. This reef was pushed up above the sea level about 2 million years ago. So sort of baby fossils but still pretty cool.

We now have 4 collections going:

the Hurupi Stream collection (5-7 million years old)

The Grands' Collection (Neale and Diana's rocks from their travels)  about 80 years old

The Cave collection (all the rocks and stuff from around our house. (about11 years old)

The Castlepoint collection, about 2 million years old

I am getting sooooooooooooo excited about my trip to the South Island with my best mate BAS! I have been reading two books that are mysteries that take place there Frog Whistle Mine and Shadows in the Ice by Des Hunt. I can't wait to see and hopefully walk on Franz Joseph Glacier and see a mine and smell Cape Foulwind and hopefully see a whale at Kaikoura.

Please vote in the poll this week and thanks to everyone who did the past 2 weeks. I am making graphs from the results. I need to organise a big rubber boat to take everyone down the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon (that was the most popular field trip)

Today is the anniversary of the Christchurch Earthquake. 185 people died, heaps of people were hurt, pets got scared and lost and houses and businesses crumbled. People have worked hard to clear up the city and make plans. But the after shocks keep coming. There have been 1000s of aftershocks.

See you later, hope the Earth hangs together for another week.


THE-O