{"id":4252,"date":"2025-07-11T21:46:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T20:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dorsetgeologistsassociation.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=4252"},"modified":"2025-07-11T21:46:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T20:46:18","slug":"field-trip-walking-with-dinosaurs-guided-walks-28-august-2025","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/dorsetgeologistsassociation.org\/index.php\/event\/field-trip-walking-with-dinosaurs-guided-walks-28-august-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Trip: Walking with Dinosaurs Guided Walks \u2013 28 August 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dorset Geologist<\/strong>\u2019<strong>s Association Group (DGAG) will host a Field Trip on the Thursday 28<sup>th<\/sup> August 2025.<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Title:<\/strong> Walking with Dinosaurs Guided Walks \u2013 28 August 2025<br \/>\n<strong>Leader :<\/strong> led by Andy Melrose (DGAG)<br \/>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong> Meet at 10 am<br \/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong> Worth Matravers village car park of Wood Henge fame.<br \/>\nThe car park is at BH19 3LE or muscular.snuggled.resist (what3words).<br \/>\n<strong>Entry Cost:<\/strong> Please note that there is a car park honesty box (\u00a33). The DGAG guided walk is free to members, and a \u00a31 fee for non-members. All ages welcome.<br \/>\n<strong>Booking:<\/strong> Email Andy Melrose at wamelrose@gmail.com to register your interest and attendance for this date.<br \/>\n<strong>Description:<\/strong> You may have heard of the great opportunities to join family friendly Dorset Geologists\u2019 Association Group (DGAG) and\/or National Trust guided walks this Summer to see the 145 million year old dinosaur footprints at the Spyway Quarry in the Purbecks. This is a lovely collaboration between the National Trust\u2019s Purbeck Goes Wild and DGAG.<br \/>\nThe DGAG walks will start at the Worth Matravers village car park of Wood Henge fame. The car park is at BH19 3LE or muscular.snuggled.resist (what3words).<br \/>\nThe walk is about 2 miles to and from Spyway Quarry and will include a visit to the Square and Compass! If you missed the June walks, we can now confirm 2 more dates in August to join Andy Melrose from DGAG. These are on 14 and 28 August and both guided walks start at 10 am.<br \/>\nKeep an eye on both the DGAG website and facebook pages for all updates on these.<br \/>\nWe will need willing volunteers to write each of the trips up and thank you in advance for this and of course to the trip leaders above.<br \/>\n<strong>Photo:<\/strong> Courtesy of J. Stiby<br \/>\n<strong>Optional Additional Reading<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>The DGAG Rock and Fossil Trail Sites (RaFTS): <\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 DGAG Rock and Fossil Trail Sites (RaFTS): RaFTS0009 on google maps<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1kM_29htsCgRsXw4M5EqvEBJabpOR5QZM\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1kM_29htsCgRsXw4M5EqvEBJabpOR5QZM\/view<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dorset Geologist\u2019s Association Group (DGAG) will host a Field Trip on the Thursday 28th August 2025. Title: Walking with Dinosaurs Guided Walks \u2013 28 August 2025 Leader : led by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dorsetgeologistsassociation.org\/index.php\/event\/field-trip-walking-with-dinosaurs-guided-walks-28-august-2025\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Field Trip: Walking with Dinosaurs Guided Walks \u2013 28 August 2025&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"Europe\/London","_EventStartDate":"2025-08-28 10:00:00","_EventEndDate":"2025-08-28 12:00:00","_EventStartDateUTC":"2025-08-28 09:00:00","_EventEndDateUTC":"2025-08-28 11:00:00","_EventShowMap":true,"_EventShowMapLink":true,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"\u00a3","_EventCurrencyCode":"GBP","_EventCurrencyPosition":"prefix","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[3105],"_EventVenueID":[4228],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[53],"class_list":["post-4252","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-dgag","cat_dgag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorsetgeologistsassociation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorsetgeologistsassociation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorsetgeologistsassociation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorsetgeologistsassociation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorsetgeologistsassociation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dorsetgeologistsassociation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4254,"href":"https:\/\/dorsetgeologistsassociation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4252\/revisions\/4254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorsetgeologistsassociation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorsetgeologistsassociation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorsetgeologistsassociation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4252"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorsetgeologistsassociation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=4252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}