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Well once again, what is becoming an annual trip to St. Mary's cement in Bowmanville Ontario Canada was an absolute winner this weekend. This is a world class collecting locality that unfortunately is generally not available for regular collecting. A number of forum members were present but a big hats off thanks to our very own Northern Sharks (Kevin) for leading and organizing the trip this year. This is the only day in the year that the very active quarry with 5 levels is open for collecting. Approximately 30 collectors took advantage of this and made it a very special day. The weather was amazing for late October and not a drop of rain unlike some other years. The quarry was quite muddy as it had rained non stop the previous day but that is a good thing because all the rock piles were nice and clean. I only saw what a few collectors found as Quarryman Dave from the forum here and myself were too busy making then most out of our limited collecting time (9:00 to 4:00PM). We are all here for the trilobites...... I did see complete isotelus, ceraurus (2 species), thaleops and flexicalymenes that were found by people. My saw got a fair bit of use cutting mostly isotelus and a few ceraurus out for people on the 3rd level. I think Dave and I did reasonably well, though we only found isotelus and perhaps a thaleops that were keepers. We did find a lot of partial ceraurus but nothing worth bringing home. Dave found two double isotelus plates and we found a number of complete iso's.... Everything that we found was on level 3 and 4 of the quarry. We did not have time to look at levels 1 and 2 and level 5 seemed a bit too wet and muddy for my liking. From what I heard from a few others nothing of note was found on level 1 or 2 this year. I know Peter Lee spent some of the day up there and he did not find anything but partials from what I recall. Here is the group picture of what we found all unprepped at this point (the trip was only yesterday) We should get a few nice ones out of this batch once I get them prepped. I will try to post some pictures as they get completed but that will not likely be for a while as I have a large backlog of material to prep for myself and others. Other members of the forum that were there please jump in and show us some of what you found. ..........