Northwest Bay is located
just south of Parksville on Vancouver Island. It is a lovely place to go for a fossil day trip. Purchase a local map to help with
directions. Turn east off the Island Highway onto Northwest Bay Road. Continue
for 3 km and then turn left onto Wall Beach Road, which ends in a parking area
up a short hill. Take the trail to the beach.
The first beds you'll encounter are yellow-brown sandstones with trigonid
bivalves. Overlying these beds are
fossiliferous, gritty blue-grey shales with bivalves, gastropods, ammonites and
crustaceans. You’ll want to check the tide
tables to arrive for low tide.
