Another Lunch Break Hunt, Aust Cliffs.

[Tom_]

With a spare few minutes at lunch time today Pork Chop and I went for a nose at Aust. There has been some huge tides this week so I hoped some new things had been washed from the cliffs.

The beach is only very short but crammed with rocks that have fallen from the cliffs over the years. Within a few minutes Porky decided he needed to dig.

And he turned up a small bivalve shell!

Sadly for him there are hundreds of them on the beach in huge slabs, some of them over a ton in weight.

The quartz formations are quite spectacular

All I managed to find was a nice scallop shell

And a large rock containing a Hydrobont spine impression, scallop shells and possible pieces of teeth and bone.

Not bad for less than 30 minutes of mooching around!

[caldigger]

Next time you know to take a hammer and chisel on you lunch break.

[PennyT.]

Mooching and pooching around. Hmmm, wonder if I could train a pup to find trilobites? As always, love the scenery. Could you indicate the high tide water mark against the cliff? Way above the quartz? Just wondering....

[Fossildude19]

Thanks for the leisurely stroll, Tom!

Nice report and pics - enjoyed them both.

Regards,

[RyanNREMTP]

Nice finds. Looks like a great place to explore.

[Tom_]

High tide is about 3 feet up the cliff, most of the fossils come from the dark layers at the very top. A good high tide washes silt off the exposed rocks on the beach and moves them around, hopefully exposing more!