diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 764d4ed01aa5..e45a72bc9a73 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -3588,6 +3588,7 @@ dependencies = [
 name = "cumulus-client-consensus-aura"
 version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
+ "array-bytes 6.1.0",
  "async-trait",
  "cumulus-client-collator",
  "cumulus-client-consensus-common",
diff --git a/cumulus/client/consensus/aura/Cargo.toml b/cumulus/client/consensus/aura/Cargo.toml
index f440270c9822..8b7faf110946 100644
--- a/cumulus/client/consensus/aura/Cargo.toml
+++ b/cumulus/client/consensus/aura/Cargo.toml
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ codec = { package = "parity-scale-codec", version = "3.0.0", features = [ "deriv
 futures = "0.3.28"
 tracing = "0.1.37"
 schnellru = "0.2.1"
+array-bytes = "6.1.0"
 
 # Substrate
 sc-client-api = { path = "../../../../substrate/client/api" }
diff --git a/cumulus/client/consensus/aura/src/collator.rs b/cumulus/client/consensus/aura/src/collator.rs
index b00c3952e2bc..ada79dbdb05f 100644
--- a/cumulus/client/consensus/aura/src/collator.rs
+++ b/cumulus/client/consensus/aura/src/collator.rs
@@ -226,6 +226,17 @@ where
 				block_data.storage_proof().encode().len() as f64 / 1024f64,
 			);
 
+			// Hacky print for debugging:
+			{
+				let block_data = block_data.using_encoded(|d| array_bytes::bytes2hex("0x", d));
+				let collation_data = collation.using_encoded(|d| array_bytes::bytes2hex("0x", d));
+
+				tracing::trace!(
+					target: "aura-collation-dump",
+					"SCALE encoded parachain block: {:?}, SCALE encoded collation: {:?}", block_data, collation_data,
+				);
+			}
+
 			if let MaybeCompressedPoV::Compressed(ref pov) = collation.proof_of_validity {
 				tracing::info!(
 					target: crate::LOG_TARGET,