This fossick on Seadown Beach started at 12.45pm, an hour before high tide, and involved a careful search of three stone patches just north of the parking area.
Nine of my finds are featured below. The first is a dark-coloured bryozoan fossil stone – some of its fossils seem a little larger than ones I have seen previously:
On both sides of the stone, a fragment of lace-like (grid-like) material can be seen, typical of bryozoa.
A fossiliferous limestone stone, which could also contain many tiny bryozoan and other fossils:
A stone similar in colour to the first one above but having some small light-hued features, though lacking in tiny fossils:
A quartzite I picked up today:
This stone is very similar in colour and I thought it also was a quartzite but it appears unusually becciated:
A red quartzite:
Occasionally, it can be difficult to distinguish between quartzites and jaspers. I initially this small stone is most likely a jasper but closee inspection reveals the occasional tiny clear quartz fragment that you find in the local quartzites:
This could be another type of quartzite, very smooth and hard, but not as colourful, though in this case with an interesting vein:
Finally, a quartzy stone with layered mineral clouds:
The next Post in this Series features a Ward Beach fossick, the last one for this trip (Post not yet available). An Index to all the Posts in this Series is here.
