I knew when I got excited
over a stack of buckets at Lowes
that it was time to move.
We've loaded our trucks are are headed north
where it's not freaking raining all the time.
Hopefully we'll find some pretty pieces of coral but either way, it will be good to get back into a river and dig.
It's already been several months
since I last touched my river gear.
There were no rat nests in the kayak when I took it off the rack which is a great start.
Had I not left my screen out all summer in the Florida sun I probably wouldn't have had to replace the pool noodle floats but I did so I did. Done!
A kayak crate, organized and ready to go.
Sweet!
It's the usual cast of characters so I'll let you know how it goes.
And a few distractions...
A new lounging shirt from a high-end store called Ross.
Tom found me 2 rolls of the coolest packing tape ever.
Are you kidding me?!
Stegosaurus tape!
And I finally found a FaceBook page where the members will help me ID my non-fossil minerals.
It's not that a group like that is hard to find. I just hadn't done it.
This is agatized barite that I found in the Yellow Cat region of Utah. I initially thought it was petrified wood and then when I realized it wasn't, I still picked up some samples for my rock collection.
Here's some fun information about stegosauri from a website called newdinosaurs. I think the first fact is funny because walnuts don't have brains. They missed the words "the size" in the middle of that sentence.
Contemplating this animal's weak bite and slow movement, it probably would've been safe to approach and pet it. Alas, we'll never know.
Quick Stegosaurus Facts
- Stegosaurus had the brain of a Walnut
- Scientists call the Stegosaurus’s spiked tail a thagomizer
- It swallowed rocks to aid in digesting plant matter
- Stegosaurus means “roofed lizard”
- This dinosaur’s bite was weaker than a human’s bite
About Stegosaurus
Stegosaurus is a dinosaur that lived around 155 million years ago—during the Jurassic Period—in the Western portion of North America and parts of Europe. It was an herbivorous quadruped known for its rounded back and its double row of back plates that end with a a double pair of spikes on this dinosaur’s tail. This dinosaur was first discovered in 1877 by Othniel Charles Marsh during the Great Dinosaur Rush—also known as the Bone Wars. Because this dinosaur had armored plates that seemed shingled, it was given the name Stegosaurus, which means “roofed lizard”.
An interesting fact to note is that of all of the dinosaurs, Stegosaurus had one of the smallest brains. Although the actual anatomy of this dinosaur’s brain is currently unknown, it is known that it only weighed approximately 3 ounces—which is extraordinarily small for a creature that weighed over 5 tons. As such, it is believed that this dinosaur was very simple and slow moving.
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