Today, Saturday 26 February, I made another visit to Slope Point. This was my fourth, and last, visit here this trip, arriving mid-afternoon. Low tide was at 6 pm and it is best to fossick at Slope Point during the last couple of hours of the outgoing tide – the sea can be wild here, with nothing but ocean to the south until you get to Antarctica. I have now been able to collect an interesting set of Slope Point stones to tumble polish over the next few months. Today’s stone is a medium-sized reddish rhyolite, 6 cms wide at its widest, 4.5 cms high and 2.5 cms at its base:
Being this kind of volcanic stone, it is starting out as not very smooth, with small holes and furrows, but its interesting character means it is well worth trying to smooth and polish in a tumbler.
I was in the company again of local fossicker Oliver Simpson.
Three small rhyolite stones I found today:
Three non-rhyolite stones I collected, the first being petrified wood, I believe:
The last five stones from today, all being volcanic in origin, with most (if not all) being rhyolites:
The first Post in this Series is here. The Index to all the Posts in the Series is here.
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