Today was my sixth visit so far to Gemstone Beach during this trip. Another sunny day with practically no wind meant I spent another very pleasant three hours on the beach. Stone #14 is a jasper found when I was about halfway back to the carpark. It immediately commanded my attention with its bright red speckles:
The stone is not a perfect one for tumbling, having some small holes and being convex on one side and concave on the 0ther. It is 5 cms long and 4 cms wide, 0.5 cm thick at one end and 1.5 cms thick at the other end, big enough to allow some shaping while tumbling.
That makes it three Gemstone Beach jaspers that have featured as Stones of the Day in this Series, all three quite different in character:
Gemstone Beach seemed to have a bit more sand on it today as I made my way northwest along it. I suspect it’s not because the stones have been transported elsewhere by the waves but mainly that they lie buried under the sand. There were plenty of drifts of stones to investigate as well as the banks of stones towards the northwest.
The stones I have selected to include in today’s Post illustrate the diversity to be found on Gemstone Beach:
Some of the stones are quite small, between 1 cm and 2 cms long:
And the final three today:
The first Post in this Series is here.
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