I visited Gemstone Beach at low tide first thing this morning, to avoid the day’s forecast hot temperatures. Fossicking conditions were difficult due to the low sun angle casting shadows from stone to stone, plus the the cliffs shaded large stretches of the beach. During my two and a half hours there, I again found a few interesting stones. The most intriguing was this one, perhaps a quartzite, maybe brecciated, with the fragments having furry-looking edges.
A couple of nice small stones whose colours attracted me, one because of the blue-green hue and fine black veins, the other because of its irregular black and white shapes:
Two of the larger stones I collected were a pink thulite and stone packed with clasts of various shapes and sizes, reminiscent of trace fossils (but probably not):
Another six of my finds:
The first Post in this Series is here. The next Post, on a fossick at a Gemstone Beach covered in foam, is here. The Index to the Series is here.
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