By Roxanne Reid
Just around the corner from the more famous and weirdly compelling Owl House in Nieu Bethesda, near Graaff-Reinet in the Karoo, is the Kitching Fossil Exploration Centre, which depicts the fossil history of the area.
Just around the corner from the more famous and weirdly compelling Owl House in Nieu Bethesda, near Graaff-Reinet in the Karoo, is the Kitching Fossil Exploration Centre, which depicts the fossil history of the area.
You can go fossicking about with a guide in the riverbed nearby to see actual fossils still embedded where they were found. But I particularly enjoyed the fossil centre’s display on ‘how to become a fossil’.
1. Live in a lowland area.
2. Die where you get buried.
3. Avoid being eaten.
4. Get buried quickly.
5. Get mineralised (preferably in 50 000 years).
6. Avoid earthquakes and volcanoes.
7. Get uncovered and discovered, preferably by someone who knows what he’s doing.
Such an original and simple way of teaching how fossils are formed!
More about Nieu Bethesda
17 things to do in Nieu Bethesda in the Karoo
The Owl House Nieu Bethesda: a world Helen Martins created
Ganora Guest Farm, Nieu Bethesda: Bushman rock art and fossils
Copyright © Roxanne Reid - No words or photographs on this site may be used without permission from roxannereid.co.za
1. Live in a lowland area.
2. Die where you get buried.
3. Avoid being eaten.
4. Get buried quickly.
5. Get mineralised (preferably in 50 000 years).
6. Avoid earthquakes and volcanoes.
7. Get uncovered and discovered, preferably by someone who knows what he’s doing.
Such an original and simple way of teaching how fossils are formed!
More about Nieu Bethesda
17 things to do in Nieu Bethesda in the Karoo
The Owl House Nieu Bethesda: a world Helen Martins created
Ganora Guest Farm, Nieu Bethesda: Bushman rock art and fossils
Copyright © Roxanne Reid - No words or photographs on this site may be used without permission from roxannereid.co.za
