Miserable winter hunt

[6ix]

Oh yeah, thats right - its summer here!

Tinbum, @mamlambo @6ix @Doctor Mud and the Little Girl team up to hit the beach again - for a beautiful day of over 25 degrees of awesome.  Doctor Mud cheated and beat us all there... and was a little quiet about how heavy his pack looked on the way back 

 

The place needs a good storm to come through - sand is high and the crabs are buried deep, but there are other mysteries to solve there.

 

Didnt stop some awesome finds including Moa and Shark teeth (and a few small crab "pickers" ) - - oh and more Penguin,  winged bird, some nice corals and Little Girl found a small shell that was crystallized inside so she was stoked!

 

Its 9pm now, and still 21 degrees outside, man I love summer!

 

I didnt take my camera, so only have phone snaps but perhaps the others have some more to add!  Was a great day guys, cant wait to meet you again.

 

Some careful extraction ....

 

Summer - how many fossil hunters can you spot?

 

@mamlambo in his natural habitat!

 

I found a couple of nice balls.... will be interesting to see if they were worth the carry.

 

[Dave pom Allen]

nice finds looks like @mamlambo been cleaning up and @Doctor Mud came a long way to fill his pack mt cass always produces

 

[Al Tahan]

I’m very jealous of the weather and fossil collecting grounds . Hopefully those turn out to be winners  

[Fossildude19]

Looking forward to see how you all made out.    

 

Thanks for the report and pictures.

[FossilNerd]

Looks like a horribly miserable time... 

 

Now if it was 25 degrees Fahrenheit instead of Celsius it would be a different story... 

 

Glad you all were able to get out and enjoy the weather, the beach, and the fossils together! Can’t wait to see what’s in those big concretions. 

 

 

[RJB]

Only wish I could have been there!  Some really nice looking concs too!!! 

 

RB

[fossisle]

Great photos of a fossil crab hunt with friends, awesome!!

[6ix]

Thanks everyone yeah, we're pretty lucky here, NZ is pretty well known for being strikingly bland with the natural resources - nothing like the geodes etc that I keep seeing videos of from USA anyway - but we have a few things we do well!

 

Just gave the concretions a blast with the hose and one is ready to POP!  Its got some Flabellum visible on the surface so its probably an empty one but I'll give it a gentle bit of persuasion.

 

[mamlambo]

@6ix @Doctor Mud It was a great hunt! I found a nice contemporary penguin skeleton, extracted by @Doctor Mud, which I will use for reference and a broken shark tooth 

 

 

[Doctor Mud]

On 27/12/2019 at 9:26 PM, 6ix said:

Doctor Mud cheated and beat us all there... and was a little quiet about how heavy his pack looked on the way back 

I camped on the beach overnight to blow out some cob-webs. Had a nice fire and clear skies this time with a marvelous view of the stars. Even saw the space station! 

 

It still gets down to 10 degrees C at night, but I was all wrapped up cosy in my sleeping bag. A nice sunrise, ferried the camping gear up to the car and switched it out for hunting gear!

 

Another glorious Glenafric sunrise!

 

 

The others arrived around 10 AM to catch the tides. Our packs were light this time out (except for @6ix ‘s balls) but we had a blast. Always something new to learn!

 

@mamlambo sure has a keen eye for the fossils and picks up on things others may just walk by! He was calling out to me that he had found some more moa bones and I rushed to look. We had a search around the area and I was lucky enough to find the distal (lower) end of a moa tibiotarsus (shin bone). Wouldn’t have found it if @mamlambo hadn’t called me over!

 

Here it is after prep. @manlambo has some in situ and before prep shots.

 

 

 

 

Ah, I remembered @mamlambo sent me this picture of me holding it in the field.

 

 

Thanks! This is a new thing for me at this site and @mamlambo started this ball rolling with a neat find which I think he will announce later?

 

We are working out the exact layer where these come from, but suspect they are 70-100,000 years old. Much younger than the crabs. The oldest moa remains found so far in NZ are 2.5 million years old.

 

 

[6ix]

Aww bugger, first one was a little boring - popped easy and man its some soft material too.