Left to our own devices for a few days, we did a bike ride on the Cinder Track, the former railway line from Whitby to Scarborough. We didn't make it quite as far as Scarborough, but returned to Whitby for beer, ice cream and the new playground in Pannett Park by the museum. We visited Playdale Farm Park to play and feed the animals, and we went fossil hunting on the beach at neighbouring Runswick. The coastline is strewn with different sized chunks of shale, you can peel the layers apart by hand and find fossilised shell shapes mostly, but Holly was very pleased to find her own ammonite. It's astonishing to think that this little imprint is at least 65 million years old, and we're the first human beings to look at it.
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