In the footsteps of Mary Anning!
I took off to Charmouth yesterday (Saturday) with Emma, a very good friend of mine, to go and walk in the footsteps of Mary Anning and look for some fossils. It was a beautiful day and we took a very leisurely drive down, arriving in plenty of time for the talk and guided walk that was booked. I've never been to Charmouth before, been past it so many times, but never stopped off there. So glad that I have now and will definitely be going back again; and soon! The talk at the Heritage Coastal Centre is very family orientated but no less interesting for that. After the talk it was down to the UNESCO World Heritage Site to see what we could find. Apparently most of the fossils on the beach at Charmouth are the result of a very large cliff fall in 1956. After a slow start we were soon finding lots of bits of belemnites, a type of squid, that lived over 100 million years ago! There is also and incredible amount of sea glass on the beach there as well. As the time...