This morning I made my last visit for this Southern Sojourn to Slope Point (I’m heading home to Whanganui in a week’s time). I went to the same beach as featured in Post 30. The weather was wet for much of the time and so were all the stones on the beach – this made spotting the interesting ones a bit easier. Despite trying to be selective, I ended up collected 9.5 kilograms of small stones, about 130 stones in all. The best of all these was this gorgeous orbicular rhyolite:
My most interesting find today, however, was a large piece of petrified wood (26 cms long, 2.5 kilograms weight). On my way to the beach where I collected my pebbles, the fact that it was low tide meant that I could nose around some rocks in an area I haven’t been to before. At one point I stopped to check my backpack. Looking down, I saw this large piece of brown petrified wood. It was partly under another large stone but came free easily. While photographing it, I kept finding little areas of agate. Even though I won’t be able to tumble-polish it, I am very happy to have such a fine specimen.
Three more of the small stones I found that had interesting detail:
Three light-coloured stones with intriguing detail:
Three more visually interesting Slope Point finds:
So it’s farewell to Slope Point for now. Until next time!
Post 51 features some “quirky” stones. The first Post in the “Southern Sojourn 2023” Series is here. The Index to the Series is here.
Love your cats’ names. I was curious, do you believe in the energy and vibrations of gemstones for healing? If not do you collect them for their beauty and interesting patterns. I you could let me know what you think about my blog about using earth’s elements as an alternative to healing that would be great. https://revivegemwaterblog.com/category/jasper/
Hi! I am open-minded about subtle energy healing though don’t consider myself personally to be conscious about the impact of such energy. It is certainly the case that spending time on stony beaches is an invigorating experience for me. My main attraction to stones is their visual appeal and the mystery of how they come to have such interesting colours and patterns.