May 20, 2009 12:03 by
megWith a mounting collection of rocks and minerals on the Discovery Centre enquiry shelves awaiting identification, Museum Victoria geologists Bill (below left) and Dermot (below right) paid us a visit to impart some of their rock-solid (hilarious pun by me) wisdom...
Photo: Meg Lomax Source: Museum Victoria
Now, change of scene for a moment - earlier in the week, one of the Discovery Centre volunteers was kind enough to bring in some tasty snacks for us, including cheese and biscuits, dried apricots, almonds, and also some special chocolates... these chocolates were covered in a sugar coating and shaped and coloured to resemble pebbles. Novel and tasty.
Photo: Meg Lomax Source: Museum Victoria
Being the wacky funsters that we are, we thought we'd offer up a couple of these rock-chocolates to Bill and Dermot for "identification".
After weighing, and inspecting, and consulting with each other, and mumbling something about garden variety river pebbles, Jo took the identification process into her own hands and bit the "rock" in half.
After a lot of "ha ha's" and "very funny's", the parting message from our expert geologists was "don't tell my colleagues about this!"
So I decided to post it on the web...
Photo: Meg Lomax Source: Museum Victoria
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