Richmond Fossil Hunting Sites

Searching for and finding heaps of fossils that were 100 million years old!!

Exciting, fascinating and educational! We were digging for and easily finding fossils that were 100 million years old!! The site has so many remains - small and large. Kevin, the curator from the muse...

You’re not a pro palaeontologist…

It’s just really cool to be digging around on a seabed millions of years old…so, lower you’re expectations of what you will unearth. The chances are, you’re not going to discover a new species or a pe...

Fun day

Excitement of finding fossils. Then researching what they were. Hot day but still a good time. Kids would love to do this.

Worth the short drive

Not much to see unless you are interested in getting your hands dirty. Still interesting to find out where the dinosaurs roamed

This was my 6 yr olds highlight of our whole trip

We found shells, shark tooth, turtle shell parts and fossilised plants. No dinosaurs unfortunately. Big space, plenty of room for lots of people. Easy digging at fossil site 1 for families.