Today the region of land surrounding
Canada’s James Bay is heavily wooded wetland bog. Known as the James Bay Lowlands, this vast northern wilderness is marked with hundreds of anonymous lakes
and is blanketed with a thick pelt of evergreens and peat moss.
Some 375 million years ago, though, this
same environment was submerged below the surface of a shallow, semi tropical ocean teeming
with prehistoric life. Now, thousands of centuries later, the curious can still find the
fossilized remains of these long extinct creatures at rare sites along the shores of the
little-known Moose River.
Two Bay’s rustic Fossil Island
expedition involves a journey up the Moose River aboard sturdy, 
24-foot freighter canoes to one
such site: an island with a rugged shoreline strewn with fossil rich limestone deposits.
Once on the island, visitors are invited to scrutinize these shale-like rocks for notable
fossils while our guides build a camp fire and brew a traditional pot of tea in a manner
perfected long ago by first inhabitants of the Great Muskeg, the Native Cree. Later, when
the tea is served, visitors are also treated to a taste of authentic Cree bannock bread.
Click here for an
authentic bannock bread recipe
Note: this expedition departs at 2:30
pm and returns to Moosonee again at roughly 4:30 pm. It serves to occupy your first
afternoon while leaving the evening free to explore Moosonee and the next day open for the
popular Wilderness Excursion.
The 2007 Rate for the FOSSIL ISLAND
expedition is as follows:
$22.00 Per Adult /
$11.00
for Children 12 and Under.
(Plus 7% Goods and Services
Tax)
Note: prices are in
Canadian funds.
