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Although we didnt realy plan for a fossil field trip, we did go to Boulogne sur mer yesterday to visit the aquarium "Nausica". and since the chalk cliffs of cap blanc nez are only 20min away from there we did make a stop for a couple of hours at the beach at the cliffs.

I can recomend a visit to the aquarium to enyone who visit's the are, it is definitely worth a visit, although the entrence fee is quite expensive.

 

On our visit at the beach we were only equiped with a small hammer, but lots of boulders  shore were already broken through the waves and still deliverd quite a lot of fossils.

I also picked up a pice of chalk with a bone fragment in it. this was something I haven't found there before, we are still prepping this to see what we can make out of it:

 

 

Visit at the aqurium:

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the vieuw at the top of the "Grand Blanc Nez", You can see the UK from there 

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Vieuw on the coastline:

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ammonite in the boulders:

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the finds:

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the mystery bone:

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Thanks for showing your aquarium visit and location pictures,your finds are good as well, made for a perfect day.

 

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Nice day out and some beautiful ammonites too. Thanks for sharing. Bobby 

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Nice trip report :)

Both the modern aquarium and the "Cretaceous aquarium" looked really cool!

As usual, excellent fossils - especially the mystery bone

-Christian

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I love the ammonites (as usual!)!!!  It looks as though you two had a great day out :)

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Thanks for sharing! Looks like a fun time. 

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Thx for all the replies :)

 

I've been clearing out the bone , I'm almost done:

 

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