Trip to Scalby Bay - many thanks to Will - I think you convinced the sceptics!

Brr! wet and windy - Looking down at the Bay from the cliff top - carefully!
Meeting at the car park, well wrapped up Channel in the rocks below
Bob is giving Erika a hand down the gulley My pen gets around a lot
The gulley was voted an easier way down! Sedimentary structures everywhere
"Count the toes - " Such vandals, those dinosaurs!
Will points out the oversize footprint And here's one I stepped on earlier -
Three-toed footprints - from size, about 1.5m tall at the hip My walking stick for scale
The well-known footprint bed (also on my other Scalby page) Coal seam - eat your heart out, UK Coal!
Pen for scale Pen again
Equisetum fossil buried in the rocks Ripples in the rock
More rocks further up the beach Corals - possibly carboniferous erratic
You can see the line of the infilled channel I didn't take this one home!  Too big
Scalby Ness Gingko fossils exposed in the fallen blocks
The start of the clamber over the rocks This is what we came to see - the plant beds
Looks like Ann and Jenny climbing round the point There's another bivalve on the top of the big stone
Ah!  Back to civilization at last - this is where the sea cut comes out from its link with the Derwent in Forge Valley. What did I find?  A nice bivalve or two, a lump of carnelian, granite with quartz vein, bits of ammonites.

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