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Because it's only a short ferry ride away from the mainland, I often try to make a point to go to Vancouver Island when I have some time free, both to explore its natural beauty and to hunt for fossils in its rich and varied Cretaceous deposits. Much of the eastern coast of the island adjacent to the Strait of Georgia, as well as many of the smaller islands just offshore, are underlain by the Nanaimo Group - an ancient marine basin whose age extends from about 90 to 65 million years. Many of the shorelines, creeks, and quarries of Vancouver Island, where the formation crops out, can be explored for their fossil bounty. I've just come back from a solo camping trip a few weeks ago, where I spent most of my time exploring the abandoned shale pits east of Nanaimo. While this was the main purpose of the excursion, it also gave me a good reason to visit the Courtenay and District Museum to get some paperwork sorted to donate a fossil cycad seed I found on a previous trip (detailed here). That said, I'm going to cheat a little in this post, and also include some photos and finds from two previous trips - one earlier in the spring, and another from late last summer. Anyway, I hope you enjoy! First I'll start with some photos from the field. Late summer, 2021 Glyptoxoceras fragment (Trent River): Seals chilling in the distance, Hornby Island: The elusive otter: The iconic arbutus!: Sunset, Hornby Island:
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