Guess where we went today? Bet you can't, bet you can't. We visited the dinosaurs.:) You heard me right. We went to visit the dinosaurs. Did you know:

In 1992 Steve Hutt, curator of the Museum of Isle of Wight Geology, was walking
along the cliffs on the south-western side of the Isle of Wight when he spotted
what looked like a small fragment of bone. Working on instinct he scraped the
earth away to discover a more substantial bone, one that belonged to a creature
that had fallen where Steve stood, 120 million years ago. This resulted in the
excavation of the Island’s largest dinosaur: Brachiosaurus.

This, and many other discoveries has led to the Isle of Wight's nickname of
'Dinosaur Island' and resulted in the recent dig with the BBC along the Island's
south coast.

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Remember Jurassic Park? Well you will be one step closer to seeing Pterodactyls at
Dinosaur Isle. The Isle of Wight is the richest source of dinosaur remains in
Europe and Dinosaur Isle is to be Britain’s first purpose built dinosaur
attraction and aims to reconstruct the 125 million year old giant reptiles and
place them in their natural habitat, using life sized models (in some cases
moving ones), sounds, smells and computer technology.


Some of the things we saw. This was a great place and a really fun place to visit.

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Now wouldn't you liked to have lived back in pre-historic times and walked
among those giant creatures? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

The museum was great. I just wish we could have stayed longer. But not enough
time. We still have lots to see before we leave Monday morning.

Shan <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/alien.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />