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Blue Beach, Hantsport

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

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Also reported: trackway viewing, fish scales with museum guidance.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

Earliest Carboniferous tetrapod trackway shore on the Avon estuary

Documented globally significant trackway site with an interpretive museum.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

extreme tides, deep mud

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