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Geopark Festival - Let's Go Geo-parking!

28 May

Play Torbay - Indigos play & Ecology Centre, Packhall Lane, Brixham, TQ5 0EQ

 Wednesday May 28th 2025: 11am - 3pm

Join Play Torbay for a fun-filled family day at the English Riviera Geopark Festival! Discover the extraordinary geology of Torbay with activities like:

• Time-period treasure hunt & fossil digging
• Nature trail scavenger hunt
• Mini-beast hunt & craft
• Seed planting
• Volcano making

£0.75- booking fee

A chance for families to find out about one of the most extraordinary places on Earth - Torbay! Geoparks are all about rocks and landforms that tell stories about the past such as caves and fossils. This will be a day outdoors in a lovely play area with chances to:

. Take part in a time-period treasure hunt which would include digging up a fossil (plaster of Paris) to take home
. Join a nature trail scavenger hunt
. Look for mini-beasts and make your own mini-beast to take home
. Plant seeds for the summer to grow outdoors. Children will be able to find a favourite place in the playground, or take them away and plant them in their chosen place nearer home
. Bring a picnic, and enjoy refreshments that will be available too
. Make a volcano
. Understand how fossils developed - making your own moulds and casts.
. And last but certainly not least - Continue to develop the Indigos Geopark Gateway we started last year. The willow gateway depicts the four geological time periods which have made up the story of the Torbay for the last 400 million years starting with the Devonian period, followed by the Carboniferous period about 300 million years ago, then the Permian period approximately 280 million years ago and finally the Quaternary period, with a time of major climate change and the advent of humans which continues today. This year we would like to add examples of the different invertebrates, amphibians, fish, reptiles, birds and mammals that inhabited the different time periods and we are asking a local Brixham sculptor, Elisabeth Hadley to support the children and grown ups making them so that they can be fired, and will be waterproof, long lasing inhabitants of the Geopark Gateway.