February-March 2022 Fossicking Trip: Stone of the Day #12, A Slope Point Rhyolite

Today I took another trip to Slope Point. I met up with a local fossicker, Mary, a member of the “New Zealand Lapidary, Rocks, Minerals, Fossils” Facebook Group, and we made our way to a beach at Black Point, also known as Thunder Beach. We spent two hours there and collected a good bunch of stones. Today’s Stone of the Day is an interesting rhyolite:

Stone of the Day #12.

Other side of Stone #12.

It was a wet day but only light rain hit the beach from time to time, nicely wetting the stones for us to see.

Mary on Thunder Beach.

The cliff at the north end of the beach.

Slope Point beach stones.

Among the other stones I found today were these five, most of which are rhyolites, I think:

I also found one nice light-coloured petrified wood stone plus two interesting stones with green in them:

Thank you to Mary for her company and hospitality!

The next Post in the Series, on Stone #13, another Gemstone Beach one, is here. The first Post in this Series is here.

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