Belated Fossil Post
Two weeks ago (April 5 to be exact) our Cub Scout pack went to Lilydale Brickyards in St. Paul for the annual fossil hunt. It's not much of a hunt - more like fossil-picking or fossil-tripping, because the darn things are all over the place.
The park is the site of an old brickyard (hence the name) and you can still find hundreds (probably thousands) of cast off bricks and pieces of brick lying around. The old kilns are also visible.
Before it was a brickyard - way before - the area was buried under an ancient sea. Now that it's high ground, and very clay-like, you can just kick the ground, or scrape the side of the cliff and find fossils. You need a permit to dig and take fossils home.
Nature (and St. Paul) also offer ice-climbing on the cliffs. Ice is still visible, as it's in shade all day. I wonder when that ever melts?
As usual, I forgot the camera. What kind of blogger am I? Luckily other bloggers visit and take even better pictures, with better cameras. Here's the BirdChick with some pictures. Link to yesterday's post for more pics on the fossils and the cool Indian Mounds park in the heart of the city. True confession - never visited the Indian Mounds. Add another to the growing "To Do" list.
[Not my pic. Source]
The park is the site of an old brickyard (hence the name) and you can still find hundreds (probably thousands) of cast off bricks and pieces of brick lying around. The old kilns are also visible.
Before it was a brickyard - way before - the area was buried under an ancient sea. Now that it's high ground, and very clay-like, you can just kick the ground, or scrape the side of the cliff and find fossils. You need a permit to dig and take fossils home.
Nature (and St. Paul) also offer ice-climbing on the cliffs. Ice is still visible, as it's in shade all day. I wonder when that ever melts?
As usual, I forgot the camera. What kind of blogger am I? Luckily other bloggers visit and take even better pictures, with better cameras. Here's the BirdChick with some pictures. Link to yesterday's post for more pics on the fossils and the cool Indian Mounds park in the heart of the city. True confession - never visited the Indian Mounds. Add another to the growing "To Do" list.
[Not my pic. Source]
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