The customers were just De Anne and I. The guides were two senior geology students from a local college. The male guide was obviously enjoying the trip more than us and, while a bit more reserved, the woman guide exhibited signs of pleasure being in the field. It is very enjoyable to watch people who love their work.
Of course, two college students in their element had no problem scampering over rocks and across slippery mud flats. De Anne, as always, can keep up with anyone. I worked hard not to fall too far behind.
Our guides were regularly picking up rocks and exclaiming "Oh look! Here is proof that ....". The general gist of last 200 million years is that Nova Scotia was once attached to Morocco, broke away, drifted north, was at the the northern end of Appalachian Mountains, and a lot of coal was formed, and a lot of dinosaurs died in the red rocks seen in the picture above, and then we showed up and paid $20 to leave our footprints behind.
The guide climbed the cliff a bit in his excitement to point out some crystals exposed since his last tour. I declined the opportunity to join him; however, did take him up on his offer to take our camera up for him to get the shot using his hand as reference.
Now, you and I may not be impressed, but this was the high point of the day for him.
They even knew the names of the two islands - called (with great economy and efficiency) Island One and Island Two.
We ended our tour where most of the fossils were found and both our guides were able to find several embedded fossils in less than a minute searching through the fallen sandstone rocks.
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