This Post features ten stones from today’s (Tuesday 28 June) fossick which started at Riverton Aparima’s Back Beach. I was there for 90 minutes in the late morning, temperatures hovering between 1 and 3 degrees. After looking for stones at the small bay at the western end of the Back Beach, I took the track over the sand dunes to what I call The Beach Past the Back Beach. There was bright sunshine with the sun low in the sky so lots of light/dark contrast made taking good photos a challenge.
In general, the stones here are not quite as good as Gemstone Beach ones but careful fossicking tends to be productive (as you can see):
I spent summer holidays in Riverton Aparima when growing up, and my first batch of tumble-polished stones (completed in April 2016) came from its beaches. For an introduction to Riverton Aparima and its beaches, see the second entry in this Post. For an account of a March 2021 fossick at The Beach Past the Back Beach, see Day 14 in this Post. For a batch of polished stones from The Beach Past the Back Beach, see here.
A shortened version of this Post first appeared in the Facebook Group “New Zealand Lapidary, Rocks, Minerals, Fossils”. The next Post in this Series features my second day’s fossick at Gemstone Beach. The first Post in this Series is here.
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