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After picking Jim up on the Greyhound bus station and resting in Swift present Thursday night, we headed toward the T Rex Discovery center in Eastend, SK earliest dilemma Friday morning. The boys have been uber-excited! I am such as many pics away from your center (at the accomplish with this post) as I am specific no much under a few of you reading through this weblog are questioning once the trip away the Trans-Canada (Eastend is about one hour south) is worth it. Eastend is regarded getting merely a little local community of just much more than 1500 people, and i experienced been questioning what the T rex Discovery center will be like. Small, sure—but how small? Are we speaking a few T rex teeth fossils and an outdated farm tractor even although in the museum? I am content to say how the center exceeded our expectations—and hopes—in every one way. I extremely suggest it!

The center by itself is fair-sized setting up created in to the part of the hill above the Frenchman River valley. It is clean, bright, quite nicely laid out and professional. There are thorough displays on the broad wide range of prehistoric existence forms—it is not just about ‘Scotty’, the T rex found out even although in the Frenchman river valley nearby. (In fact, its not even largely about Scotty). many from the displays are hands-on and kid-friendly, plus they have other actions for children you can include on for minimal cost. Our boys do a fossil dig (cost: $3).

When you arrive on the Centre, you earliest mind toward the theatre to create a short film concerning the discovery of Scotty the T- rex museum. You are then offered a guided tour from the museum displays, getting a quite knowledgeable guide who, within our case, was content to customize the tour toward the boys pursuits and questions. Even I Jim and I come to understand new components (more on this within a bit). We will be back! Anyways, let’s get on to some pics, should we?

The T Rex center has two parts: the tourism side, which we enjoyed, as well as the science / palaeontology part of things. I observed this on the dusty truck even although in the parking lot:

There have been experts operating even although in the lab that people have been in a location to watch, plus they experienced some from the ready fossils on show (like Scotty’s real bones):



The local community of Eastend is within a quite panoramic spot, among the an ‘oasis of trees’ even although in the river valley, surrounded by rolling grassland / scrubland hills and badlands. The generate away the Trans-Canada (from Maple Creek) goes by method of the eastern borders from the Cypress Hills as well—not your flat ‘boring’ prairie even although in the SE corner of Saskatchewan! (The Cypress Hills certainly are a heavily treed geological oddity increasing above the prairie—in reality they will be the greatest phase of acreage among the the Rocky Mountains and Labrador for the east coast of Canada. in addition they have excellent flora and fauna as they have been not covered by glaciers even although in the last ice age).