Make a Date with Slate and Linger Longer in Willunga
Sunday 23rd Marxh

Slate was big business in the 19th century. It was used extensively in the building trade for roofing, walls, water tanks, drains and in the memorial stone business as gravestones. We will visit the Willunga Slate Quarry, the Slate Museum and Old Willunga Courthouse. At the Quarry we will be hosted by quarry staff and will be able to explore the quarry site and learn about the transition from mud to the hard, layered stone that is slate. After lunch we will be guided by the volunteers through the Court house and Slate Museum.
 

How to become a geologist and what to do with those pesky journals?
Thursday 3rd April 2025 at 7:00pm

     I feel I've always been a geologist. Down the street from my childhood house in western Toronto was a creek that cut into a massive cliff, and there were lots of rocks with fossils and sedimentary structures lying in the creek bed.  When I was old enough to take the subway, I began visiting the Royal Ontario Museum and started my own collection of minerals. I was enchanted and hooked, and we must pass on this enthusiasm to our kids and grandkids, or civilisation as we know it will end.