Visit to the Provincial Dinosaur Park today which may still
be the world’s richest fossil field. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site. So far they have identified 58 new dinosaur species.
On the way there, rolling prairie gave way to what we know as the Badlands. They do exist outside of the US.
The formation with the hard rock on top is termed a
hoodoo. The interpretative centre has a
diorama of smaller dinosaurs attacking a big one. (I hope I have not used
overly technical language.)
We had a behind the scenes tour with a palaeontologist and
we looked for fossil fragments. We
found what looked like a sponge but it was fossilized bone marrow. We also
found fragments of bones and once you know what you are looking for, the ground
was literally covered in these fossil fragments. We did see tracks of a coyote and possibly a
moose. You can see our tour group heading back to the bus leaving tracks of their own.
In the afternoon in Calgary we walked around to have something
to eat and walked to the Olympic Park and looked at some of the sculpture
around the place. One was dedicated to
the 1920s suffragette movement who successfully campaigned for women to become
elected officials. Elizabeth is sitting
with them. The locals are very proud of their hosting of the 1988 Calgary Winter
Olympic Games.
And of couse the Calgary tower, hence a good name for a grand blog and Brooke said there was nothing to see apart from this in Calgary.
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