My four hour fossick on the Te Waewae Bay coast today, starting and ending at Gemstone Beach, was timed to catch the waves wetting stones further up the beach. I arrived one and a half hours after high tide, and I collected more stones than on any of my previous fossicks, six kilograms in all.
This Post features ten of today’s finds. The first is very unusual, seemingly orbicular, with interesting colour patterns.
The next two stones are also of unknown types. The first has intense purple veins which caught my eye on the beach, and the second is maybe a type of argillite and I usually find one on most fossicks.
The following three have quite different colouring:
The next three stones all have veins but of different thicknesses and colours:
The final stone has really interesting colours and shapes. John Taylor, a Scottish-based member of the “New Zealand Lapidary, Rocks, Minerals, Fossils” Facebook Group, commented that this stone included “nice mossy epidote” (the green).
The next Post features a stunning brecciated quartz-jasper stone. The first Post in the “Southern Sojourn 2023” Series is here while the Index to the Series is here.
Oh my I would need a bigger rock box to display all the stones you have collected 😉
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