Fossil hunting at Runswick Beach

Fossil-hunting at Runswick Beach, Yorkshire UK on holiday with my uncle and his family – yes, we went fossil-hunting on holiday. (Twice, actually, since the afternoon was high tide and we had to come back in the morning – my 9yr old cousin woke me up. Have I mentioned how much I love my family?)

That would be me holding the ammonite and that would be my brother having a lie-down amidst the boulders and sea-weed. The cute kids would be my cousins – the one in the hat doesn’t know it yet, but he’s going to be a geologist. (Oh, and then there’s me trying to ID the finds, pretending to be a palaeontologist, making a pre-coffee face.)

Runswick Beach is amazing. If you make it at low-tide, you can just walk the cliff edge, climb through the tidal pools, strolling along (my brother didn’t even get his shoes dirty. Although his hair did smell a little like fish) and finding fossils. So very cool! (But put some back! I almost feel guilty letting the secret out, don’t want the beach to get plundered…)

[Photographs are, unfortunately, not mine! Taken by Sam & Sarah Van Wagner.]