The Yorkshire Fossil Festival was brilliant! It was in Scarborough. This picture shows Horace the pliosaur. If you get superclose and look at the picture, then you see "pliosaur" on the side, at the top of the pliosaur. There were lots of universities and associations there, and we did loads and loads of stuff.

Here are some more pictures from the festival:

We went fossil hunting afterwards. We had never been fossil hunting in Scarborough, but we found loads and loads of good stuff - but I found no fossils. Daddy found two gryphaeas and a bivalve, and Mummy found a big plant stalk....
...at least we think it is. What do you think? (Mummy edit: picture below - about as thick as Toby's arm.)

I went on a holiday to Morocco, and I went fossil hunting in the Sahara desert. This is me fossil hunting in the Sahara desert. The picture below is a picture of the fossils that we and our guide found. The fossils we found were called Orthoceras. Morocco is really famous for fossils. There are lots of trilobites, but not where we were.

We're not sure what fossils these are. We went to Bridlington and we had to walk a long, long way to get to the cliffs.

These might be fossils, they might not be - but we think they are. They are all in chalk, and that's different from the fossils we usually find.

This is not a fossil, it is a crab claw. It was massive! It was bigger than my finger!

We've been to Port Mulgrave before. We found lots of ammonites. Last time we went, we found lots of plants, but this time we've only found ammonites and belemnites.

This was an ammonite burger.

Today we went to the Ashton Memorial. It's in Lancaster. We were taking down Mummy's exhibition at one of her follies.  As we walked up the stairs, we saw fossils! We saw shells, and one bit that might have been a coral. You can find fossils on rocks, and you can find fossils on the beach, and you can find fossils in forests, and you can find fossils on stairs!

We went fossil hunting in Port Mulgrave. We left really early in the morning, and Mummy bought some croissants to eat on the beach. It was breakfast! We found lots of fossils that we didn't take, because they were in a too-big rock. Here are some pictures.

But we did take this big, big, big one, because it was good! I held it to carry it up the hill, but Daddy carried it a lot, too. If you swipe (edit from Mummy: scroll) below, you will see the big fossils that I'm carrying in this picture.

This plant is mine, because I found it. Daddy found the fern, and Mummy found the one in the last picture. We were really happy, because we haven't found lots of plants. The lego brick is to show you how big the fossil is.

This is jet. Jet is monkey-puzzle tree that is fossilised. In Whitby, we went to an old jet carving workshop. We saw a bench and wheels to grind and smooth the jet, and one of the wheels was made of walrus leather.

This ammonite is special, because we never found one like this. Can you see the squiggly lines? We made them big in that picture below.

Daddy found this rock with lots of shells in. And he also found the shell below. Although that might be a big piece of ammonite - we don't know. It's pyrite, that's why it looks gold. Or maybe, if you look at it, it might look silver, but that's just the photo.

This is me with an ichthyosaur, but it's already fossilised. It's in a museum in York (edit from Mummy: Yorkshire Museum). It was super-big. The eye was as big as my head! There were lots of other fossils, too, like fossilised fish, fossilised footprints and some of the fossils that we found already. My best bit about the trip was seeing the ichthyosaur and walking on glass at the museum - they had a glass floor with real dinosaur footprints underneath. We're going to go back, because our ticket is good for a whole year!

We went to a cottage in Wales, and it was called Little Wern. As you can see from the title, it's called Little Wern. We went there because there was a quarry near the cottage, and in the quarry, there were fossils!

My Mummy found this rainbow trilobite. 

We stayed there for three nights and two days, and we went fossil hunting four times. It was very, very cold!!! Beneath this picture, it's a baby trilobite. It's a surprise trilobite, because we split the rock and there it was. I found all the big ones! They're not super-big, but they are big. It was my bestest fossil hunting holiday ever!!

Hello! The day when we started to come to Wales, then on the way, we went to Wenlock Edge, and we found a few fossils. We parked the car, and we put everything in our bags, and we started walking. It was a walk that was called "Lime Kiln Walk", and we'd been told that was the best one to find fossils. There was a big quarry, but we couldn't go in the quarry, because we weren't allowed. But on the side you could get to some rocks, and we looked there.

We think we found a few corals, but we're not sure. We think this is one...

...and this is one?

And we think there are some corals in there.

We think this is a crinoid stem, but we're not sure.

...and we're not even sure if these are fossils at all.

After our visit to Wenlock Edge, we went to Wales, and we're here now. I found fossils here as well, but they're all trilobites, and I'll tell you about them later.

This is my fossil shelf. It's in my bedroom, by my reading corner. Daddy made it all. We had a shelf, but we needed more shelves. So Mummy and I went to the studio, and we made some shelves. Mummy sawed them and I painted them, and Daddy screwed them in-between the shelves that were there. The top shelf is the present shelf, the middle shelf is the ones that we bought, the next shelf is the fossil-found-shelf, and then there's my grading ammonites (every time I grade in Taekwondo, I get an ammonite. I've done three gradings, so next grading is my all-green belt, and I'll get another ammonite).

One day when we run out of shelves, we're going to put some more on.

We said we would tell you what we found on our trip. These look like starfish, but they are crinoid stems. (Toby typed the last sentence all by himself!)

This ammonite is tiny! Daddy found the stone below, we think it might be from a big ammonite.

Another little ammonite.

These are vertebrae, but they are not fossils - they are still bone, and we don't know which animal they come from.

We are not sure this is a fossil.

We'll tell you more about this stone later, because it is a secret!