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What it actually looks like
Photos from Courtenay and District Museum and Palaeontology Centre's website
Our note
This is the indoors half of the fossil pair, and on its own it is looking rather than digging. If you want the children holding tools, you need Fossil B as well, and the museum prices the two together. Ask them to confirm the price in writing, because their page has carried more than one figure.
What the children do
The museum's introductory fossil program for classes, held at the museum. It opens with an interactive discussion and presentation about the formation of Vancouver Island and the warm shallow sea that once covered it, then the group tours the palaeontology exhibits or studies fossil specimens up close. The museum recommends combining it with the river field trip, Fossil B, at a combined price. The price is published against a maximum of 30 people.
Sit for a talk and presentation about how Vancouver Island formed and the 80 million year old sea that covered it, then move through the palaeontology galleries to look at fossil specimens close up.
Good to know
Held at the museum, up to 30 people, and no travel involved. Duration, toilets, lunch space and bus parking are not stated, and how far ahead to book is not published.
Sources disagree. Their school programs page has been showing two different prices, an older one of about $120 plus tax and a current one of $150 for a group of up to 30. The $150 is what the page shows now. Get the price confirmed in writing when you book.
Sources disagree. The fossil tour price has been shown two ways, once as $36.75 for a child and once as $35 with tax added on top to reach the same total. Either way it comes to $36.75 a child, but ask whether tax is included so there is no surprise.
