Holiday School Fun - free Bayside fossil event

organised by the Beaumaris Motor Yacht Squadron

Everyone invited - adults & children!

When: Saturday 18th September 2021

Time: 1-2pm

Special guest speakers:

Dr Erich Fitzgerald, Senior Curator Museums Victoria,

Palaeontologist

Ella Vegh, a passionate Bayside fossil collector

We would appreciate your help to widely distribute invitation to

children, schools, clubs etc

No need to book.
Just join us at the event by clicking on the Live link below just
before the 1pm start of event:

Zoom link
For more information click here:

Fossil event
 The Bayside fossil Pelagornis
Please help by registering your vote for
Victoria's 1st Fossil Emblem
[Image credit Melbourne Museum]

Victorian Fossil emblem - we need everybody's vote - adults and children

We are thrilled to announce the Pelagornis fossil has been nominated by Melbourne
Museum for a vote to represent Victorian's fossil emblem!
There are a number of beautiful Victorian fossils nominated but the Pelagornis fossil found
in Beaumaris will put Bayside on the map.
Every individual, child and adult can vote.
Feel free to widely circulate this email to include in local school and club newsletters etc.
Click here to place your vote:

https://museumsvictoria.com.au/melbournemuseum/state-fossil-emblem/pelagornis/

The 5-million-year-old fossils of Pelagornis from Bayside, Beaumaris, were

discovered more than 150 years after it was first named and proved this bird had a
worldwide distribution. For more information click onto the Age article:
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/can-you-dig-it-vote-for-victorias-
first-fossil-emblem-20210818-p58jsk.html