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The Other Drumheller Museum
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While in Drumheller we passed "The Other" museum. This is a rock/mineral and dinosaur museum that capitalizes on the signage guiding tourists to the Royal Tyrell - I have every suspicion that they waylay a substantial portion of the people on their way to their museum who think they've prematurely arrived...
Let me assure you, this is not it. I mean, interesting - "Animatronic" dinosaurs, most of which had all the veracity of that motion-activated Halloween Zombie you got at dollarama, the only exception being the T-Rex (I think?), which was well done. The others - well...not so much. Laughable even. The exhibits, good, clearly it cost a lot to set up, and it perfectly balances the cheesy with the very-lightly-informative, and a hint of the owner's anti-climate-change or "all this is perfectly normal" agenda. The daughter and I, we had our laughs, were quickly in and out, 30 minutes is plenty of time, they probably do a great business in the summer, glad we stopped but really no need to go here twice...It would be fun for families with smaller children, but it annoys the heck out of me that people visiting might stop here and think they've taken in the Royal Tyrell and wonder what all the fuss was about...
My Calgary
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Gonna start an image blog of Calgary, the city that's perpetually under-construction and never, ever there. A melancholy day made worse by the landscape...
They're everywhere these, the roadside-flattened-squirrels; Calgary should make a giant welcome mat out of them, if only to protect you from the needles...
I should print up a bunch of Artists Cards and leave them at these little extemporaneous found-art discoveries...
Watch Porn
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On my list of YouTube recommendations, sometimes it gets it right. 20 minutes of watching somebody unbox a shit-tonne of treasure - some absolutely fantastic finds - including the Digital Bulova Driver, The Vintage Rolex, Hamilton Electric...kinda makes me want to go garage saling real bad. I'm definitely going to check out his shop next time I'm in Edmonton.
Drumheller
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Today, quite possibly, quite likely given the weather, the last chance to go fossicking in Drumheller with the daughter.
A cool day, but better than weeks to come, we try a couple of new areas and find a new bonebed. The weather; cool, rainy, generally shit, and there's no climbing, the bentonite is far too slippery. But very shortly into the new bonebed I find this:
A reasonably large chunk of bone with a tooth embedded in it:
More clearly visible - the tooth at bottom indenting into the bone, just guessing but maybe Spinosaurus? The tooth measures approximately an inch, although I'd need to get a dental pick and clean it to be certain. What is cool - that something attempted to eat something else and left a bit of itself behind...
A piece of turtella, or fossilized shell accretion. Might polish up and look quite pretty.
And a couple of other smaller bones, more definition than most, one - maybe both - appear to be toe bones.
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