Our fossil trip to Whitby

9/8/2012

In August 2012, we went to Whitby on holiday. It was a special trip, because we looked for fossils. We stayed in the youth hostel, it was right next to Whitby Abbey, and we went fossil hunting lots of times - every day! Actually, it was several times each day. When you hunt fossils on the beach, you have to be careful in case the tide comes in!! We always checked if the tide came in. We found lots and lots and lots and lots of fossils (and lots and lots and lots). We want to go back to Whitby another day.

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Katrin

9/8/2012 05:10:53 am

I would have loved to go to Whitby with you :o)
Congrats to all the fantastic fossils you've found.

Dianne Sandland

9/8/2012 11:51:04 am

I don't know what the earth is like where you are, so I'm not too sure what you can find but the bivalves sound exciting.

I grew up in London and then the Chiltern Hills, which are mostly chalk. When I was just a little bit older than you my daddy used to take me out fossil hunting. Mostly it was ammonites and a few shells. Houghton quarry was just a few minutes walk from my house and you could see the fossils right there on the surface!

Another good place we used to go to was Grafham Water in Cambridgeshire. Ammonites again though! And I remember a few Belemnites I particularly liked it there because there was stuff to do if I got bored looking for fossils!

Toby

9/17/2012 04:04:20 pm

Those sound really good places, maybe we're going to go there. I wish there was a place I could just walk to to go fossil hunting, then I would go fossil hunting every day! Yesterday we looked for fossils in the walls on the way to school - but we didn't find any!

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Hello, my name is Toby. I am five years old, and I want to be a palaeontologist. I really like fossils, so I'm writing down everything I do with fossils! My Mummy is doing the typing until I'm a bit older, but she writes everything I say.

Our fossil trip to Whitby

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