International Rock Flipping Day
2 09 2007Okay, I didn’t realize there were some rules for international rock flipping day until I started this post, but I did spend part of my day flipping rocks where my older brother and I used to spend hours when we were kids, in LaFayette, NY. I wasn’t disappointed. There were tons of fossils! What, you were expecting me to go out and try to find insects under rocks? Well, I did that, too, but there wasn’t anything too exciting going on under the big rocks I flipped. And for these fossils, I didn’t really”flip” rocks, I peeled rocks carefully back in layers to find the fossils. Update: Here’s a link to my I Love Fossils post I wrote last year.
I didn’t flip or peel any rocks back to find these next fossils, but I had to take photos of them anyway!
Fossils are cool. We never meant to imply that folks couldn’t post about fossils! Thanks for participating in IRFD.
Dave - They are cool! People who know me know I wouldn’t go purposely looking for insects because I try to keep my distance from them!
You found more than I because I forgot to flip. I don’t even know what day it is…
I’ll flip tomorrow, just for the fun of it.
Beautiful fossils!
Love these rocks! Some of those fossils look like they might have been alive UNDER rocks one time.
No fossils close to home, but,as the eagle flies, I’m not so very far from Muttaburra. Lovely photos.
Mary - I almost forgot to flip! Can’t wait to see what you find under your rocks!
Rose - Thank you!
Marjaleena - Thank you! Me too! I added a link to my post above to a post I wrote last year about fossils in this area. This whole area was under water at one time, so the fossils here are from fish and other water creatures.
Dinahmow - Thank you! I don’t find many fossils where I’m living now, but it’s always fun to go back home and flip a rock and find a dozen fossils! I just looked up Muttaburra - cool - and I’m headed over to your blog because I’m fascinated with Australia!
Fossils are what I would hope to find under rocks. After Dave posted his warnings about snakes and spiders, I decided to leave the rocks alone…not that we have poisonous ones here. I loved looking for fossils as a child. There were lots of them in the Toronto area.
I think I would rather find fossils than insects. Your post gave me an idea that perhaps I should do some nature rubbing’s of fossils.
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Yep i did some rock flipping a year a go with Rob (Bug Man) and Bruce (Plant Man ). I think I still have the fossil books we used. We spent three days in different areas around east side of Canandaigua Lake. The area we went to dated back thirty, forty thousand years. People look for these things for a living BIG $$$$$$ In finding some of these fossils, on the first day we found a rare fossil that Bug Man took back with him. Well I have to go but to let you know that those are nice pictures . If I go there again I’ll take some pictures for you.
Ruth - Fossils are mostly what I found under rocks at home! Pill bugs and stinky flying ants were big there, too. I’ve never seen a snake under a rock, but I wouldn’t be afraid here, either. Glad you enjoyed looking for fossils as a child, too! They’re so cool.
Toni - Me too! I’d love to see your fossil rubbings.
James - well, lookie who decided to finally sit his butt down and write me a comment!! LOL!! Thanks for the comment, by the way. I loved going out in the woods with bugman and plantman - two of the biggest characters around! Yeah, aren’t you a freakin’ stitch “If I go there again I’ll take some pictures for you.” If you go by yourself, hmmmm!
P.S. to anyone who reads my response to Jim’s comment - he and I are very good friends!
I have never heard of such a holiday and sounds like a good one for sure! Love your fossil shots!
Oh Pam - Those are so cooool. Lucky, lucky you! I think I’d have to dig down a mile here in NW Ohio to get near rock. We are sandy, sandy, sandy.
Hmmmm . . . though I guess there’s a quarry just west of us with tons of trilobites. But with liability issues - NO ONE is allowed in. Now that really . . . . . stinks.
Mon@rch - I think it’s new! Thanks!
Cathy - Thank you! Oh yeah, come to NY and you’ll get frustrated just trying to dig a hole because there’s so many rocks. That’s too bad you can’t get into the quarry!