Ammonite Falls
"Ammonite Falls is named for the fossils that inhabit the stack of sedimentary layers of rock kept slick by the falls. A brief foray into the rock matrix in the Benson Creek Falls Regional Park reveals a vast number of concretions, ball'o'fossils that can be broken open to reveal ancient life. Most concretions contain merely a protean speck, while others house ammonites, snail-like creatures similar in shape and form to the modern Nautilus. These were very common in Paleozoic and Mesozoic oceans, 400 to 65 million years ago."
The above quotation is from "Nanaimo Information" which sums up these falls better than I can. Certainly worth the 40 minute hike. But be prepared for a hair raising embankment descent in order to see them from this angle.
