Crab "fishing"
Each person gets a long pole with a piece of what looks like bacon attached to the end of some fishing line. Most of the instructions are in Chinese so there is a certain amount of guesswork involved. The trick is to drop the bacon into the little holes in the mud below the walkway and wait. In some of the holes, a crab is waiting for a tasty morsel to drop by. When it does, you pull him/her (who can tell?) in! Thanks go to Bryon, another one of the fossil teachers, for the pictures of the second day. Our camera battery died.
For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more 
