By Curtis Galbraith

Dinosaur Museum

Jet boat tours among fund-raisers planned by PJC Dinosaur Museum

Aug 2, 2019 | 5:30 AM

The Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum thinks it has found a unique way for people to see some of its bone bed sites.

It will be offering jet boat tours August 10.

Museum curator Corwin Sullivan says the idea came about because this area is rich in fossils and they are almost always found in river beds.

“Because that’s where rock is exposed. So, to find fossils you need to move along a river somehow, and one very efficient way to do that is by jet boat. So, we thought we would use jet boats to show interested members of the public some of the sites where we have been working.”

He adds five sites are included on the tour.

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“It’s a series of sites that are basically located along the Wapiti River. They do include the Pipestone Creek bone bed , but that’s just a little way up Pipestone. We have two other active fossil sites that we now like to take people to. They’re respectively called Spring Creek and the DC Bone Bed.”

The cost of the tour, lunch and supper included, is $450.

The museum is also hosting a fund-raising barbecue at the Pipestone Creek Campground today from 11:30 to 2:30.

The Museum’s coordinator of events and communications Brittany Westbury says one-hour walking tours to see dinosaur bones will be held at 12:30 and 1:30.

“They help showcase the Pipestone Creek Bone Bed Tours because that is currently where the paleontologists are doing field work, so it’s always great to go down and ask them some questions. They should be able to see some paleontologists working, hopefully, weather permitting.”

More information on these and other museum events ais available on the museum’s web site.