Index to “March 2026 Stone Collecting Trip” Series

On Monday 9 March 2026 I left home in Whanganui to catch a Bluebridge Cook Strait ferry in Wellington. I stopped that night in Ward in Marlborough and visited Ward Beach twice the next day. I then drove south and fossicked on a small number of beaches before reaching the south coast of Southland. I started my return journey on 29 March, reaching home on 3 April. As usual, I documented the beaches I visited and the stones I collected for tumble polishing. In this Index, you can click on a link to be taken to the relevant Post. The photos above each link give you an idea of the beaches and the stones that feature in that Post.

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Part 1 – Ward Beach, Tuesday 10 March

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Part 2 – Timaru South, Thursday 12 March

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Part 3 – Wet Gumboots and Quartzites, Seadown Beach, Kakanui, Friday 13 March

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Part 4 – Stones Appear on Kakanui’s Seadown Beach, Saturday 14 March

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Part 5 – Stones Disappear Again on Kakanui’s Seadown Beach, Sunday 15 March

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Part 6 – Lots of Sand on Gemstone Beach, Tuesday 17 March

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Part 7 – Second Visit to a Sandy Gemstone Beach, Thursday 19 March

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Part 8 – Papatotara Beach, Friday 20 March

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Part 9 – An Introduction to Tiwai Beach, Sunday 23 March

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Part 10 – A Foggy Start to a Gemstone Beach Fossick, Wednesday 25 March

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Part 11 – Maybe an Agate, and Maybe a Large Rhodonite, Gemstone Beach, Thursday 26 March

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Part 12 – Poppy Jaspers from Riverton Aparima’s Back Beach, Friday 27 March

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Part 13 – Fossick on Riverton Aparima’s Beach Past the Back Beach, Saturday 28 March

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Part 14 – Starting the Trip Back Home, A Fossick on Seadown Beach, Kakanui, Sunday 29 March

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Part 15 – Finding Patches of Stones on Seadown Beach, Kakanui, Monday 30 March

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Part 16 – An Introduction to St Andrew’s Beach, South Canterbury, Tuesday 31 March

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Part 17 – Low Tide at Ward Beach, Thursday 2 April

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