Blue Beach ... new adventures.

Introducing a friend to a place that is special to you is a doubly wonderful experience.  You get to see the place through fresh eyes and remind yourself of why you like it so much in the first place

If you like rambling beach walks, exploring and fossils; Blue Beach ticks all the boxes; so that's where Donna and I went on Wednesday.

We went looking for an old tunnel I'd heard about.  I don't know it's purpose; I suspect it's for drainage.  We tramped a couple of kilometres down the shore and found it.  

  

The walk was made slower by us stopping to take photos of all sorts of beautiful things: driftwood roots; rock formations; silly dogs leaping onto rocks ...

That was the rock formation and this is the silly dog.

We stopped for a picnic lunch.  Sooki had gone for a swim near the tunnel and had begun to shiver.

Hence her getup.  That's MY sweatshirt she's sporting.  

The fossils on Blue Beach are not dinosaur fossils, but are from 350 million years ago.  Ms. Wiki tells us that the cliffs are soft shale and sandstone.  They erode rapidly because of the high tides combined with winter freeze-thaw conditions, creating continuous opportunities for new discoveries.

Most of the fossils are ripples, mud cracks, worm tracks, rare plant impressions and traces of foot prints or tail drags.

  

Pretty rock formations were around us,

above us, 

and below our feet.

We wandered down the shore, where we caught a glimpse of the now abandoned Horton Bluff Lighthouse.

We'd spent six hours walking, keeping an eye on the tides and scouring the ground.  Donna made the best find of the day.  We think it's the impression of the bark of a tree.  The bark of a tree that had died 350 million years ago !

We had a fabulous day.

Before we left we were already talking of returning to Blue Beach.