![]() Once you've picked your best ones, you can ask for them to be polished up real quick. (They weren't super thrilled when we first told them about it.) When it was time to go guess who was the last to leave the pit? The husbands! In fact, both of them commented on how cool they thought it was after visiting. Stephanie said, "This is super zen, I could just sit here listened to everyone chip away at the rocks." She's right it was actually super peaceful. Some were still in huge chunks of rock, so you might want to chip them down a bit. We probably spent 1.5 hours and pretty much everyone had found a bunch of trilobites. Steph found a sweet spot and didn't move the whole time. Farah just sat and crawled around by me and while I had to keep a good eye on her, I felt she loved being one of the big kids. While I'd say it wasn't our smartest move to bring babies, it worked out fine. She loved being able to find her own trilobites. It seemed like every couple minutes someone said: "Mom, I found a trilobite!" It didn't matter how many we found, we loved finding every one of them. Usually, the softer rock is what's been sitting in the weather for a while.ĪLLL the kids and parents loved searching for Trilobites. Some of the rock is really hard to break apart and some literally needed a little tap and it split right open. It's right next to the office and it's just piles of shale everywhere! Once you've got your bucket and hammer you head out to the pit. I don't want to say you are pretty much guaranteed to find a trilobite, but it really wasn't hard to find them.Įveryone gets their own bucket and rock pick. While we were waiting for instructions we literally found trilobites just laying on the ground. We met Beven and his wife and Bevan had worked at U-Dig for like 14 years! You can just show up during the designated hours, someone is always out there. There are a few rolling hills on the dirt road and it's SUPER fun to speed up while on those! We saw some wild horses and they were magnificent.īe sure to read out tips below before you head out on your own trip! U-Dig Fossils is quite the destination and you have to commit to the drive. I follow a few random rockhounding facebook groups and somehow facebook kept pushing U-Dig ads at me. I've been waiting to go to U-Dig Fossils in Delta for YEARS! Years. ![]()
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