...to steal the title on a postcard from Essex!
Yes, Sarah and I have just got back from a weekend away in this delightful land visiting Pat (ecologist who used to work for the Trust), and I think it can safely be said that we all had a thoroughly spiffing time (wot wot - bit of an in joke... never mind).
Saturday saw us on a boat trip around Walton on the Naze, with brilliant close up views of both common and grey seals - very cute, and alas, very photogenic (many photos were taken). We also saw a hobby eating a beetle, and some little terns, as well as numerous little brown jobbies (waders of some description - turnstones and oystercatchers mostly). The afternoon was then spent at Clacton-on-Sea, taking in the 'delights' of the pier, including crazy golf, dodgems and candy floss!
On Sunday, Beth and her boyfriend Colin came and met us for a whole day fossil hunting - very productive in that I not only found numerous shark teeth, gastropods and bivalves, but a late neolithic/early bronze age scraper, and a (badly worn) Megalodon tooth (20m long shark!) - they only find 10 of the latter a year, and no one has ever found one on this fossil trip before! I am to be featured on their website, and in their newsletter, and it was quite amusing, because he phoned back to the 'base' (i.e. the carpark) to tell his colleagues, and news soon spread, with me being accosted at several points to display the 'amazing' find (I'm sensing a bit of 'Emperor's new clothes' syndrome here...).
But now back to work, with nothing of any particular consequence to look forward to this week. The joy is palpable.
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