Day Three of my trip south from Whanganui, on my way to Riverton Aparima, was spent mainly on Kakanui’s Seadown Beach. (Day One is covered in this Post.) I had done a 30 minute fossick on Thursday night upon arriving in Kakanui. Then, with Tracey Kidd, I did another two fossicks today, spending about five hours on the beach. The stones in this Post come from those three fossicks.
I was lucky enough to find a type of stone I had become aware of last year, one full of tiny fossils. A Scottish rockhound, John Taylor, had noted on my previous find that it was “similar to a Danish Fossil Okkergelber Hornstein made up of bryozoan”. It is only by looking closely at it that the tiny fossils can be seen.
Again I found a number of quartzites, one of them being quite stunning, with unusual circular features. Here are three quartzite finds:
Another two quartzites, one being a yellow one with an unusual white patch, the other being brecciated in part:
Four other stones I found today:
My next fossick, two days later, was at Gemstone Beach, Orepuki, Southland. An Index to the “Southern Sojourn 2023” Series is here.
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