Day two at Seadown Beach, two fossicks, nearly 200 stones collected. This morning I spent just under an hour there, in cold but fine weather, just prior to low tide. It was six degrees when I started, 12 degrees when I left. My second fossick started at 1 pm and lasted two hours. It was around 14 dgrees but a cold wind was blowing down the beach. I collected three times more stones in the afternoon than the morning.
In the morning, the tide was low enough for me to venture further southwards than usual, so I climbed some rocks to visit four small bays in that direction.
In the afternoon, with the tide a little higher, I fossicked initially at the south end of the beach. I then walked north for maybe 600 or 700 metres – very few stones on the beach there but the occasional beauty. I then returned to the south end for more fossicking, the tide having come in a little further, the waves wetting new stones.
Today I found a number of nice jaspers. Here are three of them:
Again I picked up a number of quartzites, mostly yellow ones but some red. The following six finds illustrate some of the variations of Seadown Beach quartzites:
Fossilised sea floor stones that I found today included these three:
The occasional beach agate can be found on Seadown Beach. Today I found three quite interesting ones:
Right at the end of today’s fossicking I found a stone that could have fossil bryozoans in it. I have been keeping an eye out for this type but had not found any until this one caught my eye:
I discovered my first bryozoan fossil stone in mid-2022. This Post provides some background on them.
I found this nice green quartzite this morning:
This afternoon, I found this unusual stone – it appears to have a brown layer over a black and white interior:
Other finds today included these three white stones:
I also collected quite a few small stones, around 1.5 to 2 cms in size. They are useful in the tumbling barrel, increasing the surface area for the grit. Many of them are small smooth white quartz stones. Others are like these three:
Part 4 is another fossick on Seadown Beach, with quartzites being featured. The first Post in this Series can be found here.
love your blogs you really could publish these into a book. All the rockhounds would love all the photos to compare their own finds.