Once over the dunes, the beach stretched out before us.

We were on the windy west coast, and boy, was it windy. And everything was on a vast scale.

Our destination turned out to be these boulders of beach rock, as they contained fossils – shells that are remnants of the sea floor that existed during the Miocene period, approximately 10 million years ago.

We also had a little surprise when we searched for fossils.

Luckily, he was having a long nap and hardly stirred, else we would have been in trouble.