Time to share another bit of Tasmania with you.
Fossil Bluff, with its beautiful sandstone cliffs, is less than 10 minutes drive from our front door. We often dash down here for a beach fix and to collect a few more pretty rocks from the shore. (We’re a bit nerdy like that! 🙂 )
Layers of the cliffs are embedded with fossils which date back 38 million years!! You’ll see mostly shells but Fossil Bluff has yielded a fossil wombat (Wynyardia) and a complete ancient whale (Prosqualodon). Cool huh?
Its possible to walk a fair way up the beach at low tide
There are lots of nooks and crannies to explore
My favourite pastime down here is rock hunting. I am quite addicted to the amazing rocks we find at different beaches in our area.
You can find nice examples of Calder River Agate
And other pretties –
Its a gorgeous photogenic area, so I rarely go down without my camera
Its a fossickers little bit of heaven
Its the perfect place to run a visitor down to see when time is pressing, but I am just glad its a stones throw away from us to enjoy!
Cheers!
Wow, Lisa, I love all the pictures my favourite place to be is the beach. I love to go fishing mostly off the rocks. We have a few beaches here in New Zealand that have shell rock when I lived in a place named Wanganui my garden down the back had a split level garden, to hold it up we had big slabs of shell rock it looked so pretty. Not long after I had made my shell rock garden they made it law you could not remove any of the shell rock from the beach which is fair enough if everyone took some there would be none left. You have a very nice collection of rocks so pretty.You are very fortunate to have the beach so close the closest beach to us well one that you could call a beach is 30 minutes away when the traffic is good. Enjoying your posts
NZ is on our travel list for someday for sure!!
SOOOOOO BEAUTIFUL!!!! I LOVE your photography! And your love of rocks!!! At every beach I go to I collect rocks & or sand. I LOVE natural things! And it always amazes me how different rocks or beaches can be. Thank you for sharing!!!
You would laugh to see the buckets of collected rocks, shells and driftwood around our place! Its totally irresistible! You are very right – each beach has its own personality! There are a lot of different beaches along our coast here, so depending on what you fancy – rocks, shells, driftwood, swimming, gold (seriously!!), seaweed – you have a beach to choose!