Timaru South beach. Lighthouse in distance.
Timaru South beach.
Entry onto beach at Scarborough Road end.
Small quartzite, Timaru South beach.
It was in June 2021 that I first visited Timaru South beach, at the Scarborough Road end, on my way south on a South Island fossicking trip. On my way back north, I stopped off at the Ellis Road end of the beach, on a foggy South Canterbury day. The following are Posts on TumbleStone Blog describing my visits to the beach to date, listed in chronological order:
- “FB Group Posts: 5, 6 & 7 June 2021 – Birdlings Flat Stone, Timaru and Moeraki Village Fossicking” – See entry for Sunday 6 June, a short Post.
- “FB Group Posts: 26, 27 & 30 June 2021 – Kakanui, Timaru and Ward Beach, Then Home” – See entry for Sunday 27 June (Ellis Road Beach end), a longer Post.
- “S” is for “Slope Point Stone” and “T” is for “Timaru Today” – The short Timaru entry features a green quartzite. September 2021.
- “January 2022, Stone of the Day #21 – A Dark Quartzite(?) from a Timaru Beach” – Includes mention of a craftsperson who works with Timaru South stones.
- “February-March 2022 Fossicking Trip: Stone of the Day #3, Timaru Beach Stone” – Features a handful of finds from a three hour fossick.
- “February-March 2022 Fossicking Trip: Stone of the Day #24, Kakanui Multi-Coloured Quartzite” – The second half of this Post features some Timaru South stones from a hour-long fossick. Six more stones from this fossick are described in this Post “February-March 2022 Fossicking Trip: Stone of the Day #26, Quartz-Veined Quartzite(?) from Timaru”.
- “June-July 2022 Fossicking Trip: 3) Timaru South” – An account of an hour’s fossick on a sunny winter’s day on a short stretch of the beach.
- “Southern Sojourn 2023(2): The Trip South – Thursday 19 January, Timaru South” – A 2 1/4 hours fossick walking north from the end of Scarborough Road, past the ruins of the first wharf to the end of a recently built floodbank which protects the railway line.
- “Early 2024 Fossicking Trip – Part 1, “So Many Miles…” Ward Beach, Timaru and Kakanui, Tuesday 13 February and Wednesday 14 February” – On Wednesday, I stopped off at Timaru South and spent just over an hour walking south towards the lighthouse and back.
- “March 2025 Stone Collecting Trip – Part 2, Lunch at Timaru South, Friday 28 February” – I collected 32 stones walking south from the carpark at the end of Scarborough Road to Mutu Mutu Point and back.
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