inslewinsle
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Post by inslewinsle on Mar 12, 2021 0:02:38 GMT -5
This week's Sunday drive took us over to the cliffs at Drakes Estero. We picked a rainy day at low tide, having been there once before when the tide was too high to make it all the way around the length of the beach. While avoiding the one male elephant seal we saw, we managed to find quite a few specimens of fossilized bone (which is all whale or sea mammal, so I'm told), and some -- to my delight-- agatized bone. Below are pics! **If you know these aren't bone and are something else-- do tell! I'm learning!** The first piece I found, with little agate eyes peeping out. The coolest of the cool, this piece of bone had what looked like a glazing of agate on it. If anyone knows more about this, I'd love to know, too! A side view of an altogether separate specimen, you can see where the agate has filled some of the chambers. And a link to the album, if you'd like to see more photos from this trip and others. (This trip begins about 10 rows down, after a sunset and a newt photo.) www.flickr.com/photos/aconybell13/51017617313/in/album-72157718561766218/
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Post by jasoninsd on Mar 12, 2021 12:02:20 GMT -5
What an amazing album to page through! I loved seeing all the wildlife and sea-creatures in there also! What a plethora of finds as well! Holy smokes that looked like a fun and fruitful hounding adventure right there!
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Brian
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Post by Brian on Mar 12, 2021 12:36:06 GMT -5
Thanks for sharing that great set of photos! It looks like a wonderful place to wander around.
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bobk
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Post by bobk on Mar 13, 2021 10:38:54 GMT -5
Those are awesome!!
Love getting out in the rain-
Thanks for sharing the link; did a google-trip to Drakes -
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Tommy
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Post by Tommy on Mar 13, 2021 10:45:10 GMT -5
This week's Sunday drive took us over to the cliffs at Drakes Estero. We picked a rainy day at low tide, having been there once before when the tide was too high to make it all the way around the length of the beach. Wonderful post thank you! My wife and I enjoyed your album - it gave us the serious itch to get back over to the coast soon. Rainy day at low tide (after a storm) sounds like the perfect recipe for some good rock hunting. Have you guys found the oil agates at Bolinas yet?
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Post by stephan on Mar 13, 2021 23:07:28 GMT -5
That’s definitely whale bone. The hollow cells are very indicative of the Pt. Reyes area. Just a few miles South in Bolinas, it’s fully agatized.
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inslewinsle
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Post by inslewinsle on Mar 14, 2021 16:25:41 GMT -5
Wonderful post thank you! My wife and I enjoyed your album - it gave us the serious itch to get back over to the coast soon. Rainy day at low tide (after a storm) sounds like the perfect recipe for some good rock hunting.
Have you guys found the oil agates at Bolinas yet? Yep! We went over to Bolinas a month or so ago and found quite a lot of oil agates. Based on some posts from others found all over the internet, I was afraid the area would be, as someone somewhere said, "completely picked over," but I found that wasn't the case at all!
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inslewinsle
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Post by inslewinsle on Mar 14, 2021 16:26:07 GMT -5
That’s definitely whale bone. The hollow cells are very indicative of the Pt. Reyes area. Just a few miles South in Bolinas, it’s fully agatized. Thank you!
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Tommy
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Post by Tommy on Mar 14, 2021 18:58:01 GMT -5
Yep! We went over to Bolinas a month or so ago and found quite a lot of oil agates. Based on some posts from others found all over the internet, I was afraid the area would be, as someone somewhere said, "completely picked over," but I found that wasn't the case at all! Right on! That's why I love beach collecting - I think all it takes is a good pounding surf and king tide like we had in January (or was that December?) to shake a lot of new agates out of hiding.
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