I've just got back from a day at the seaside.
I set out early this morning and decided to make for the coast because I haven't seen the sea for some time.
Half hour later and I'm on the seafront at Folkestone, parked in front of the east cliff pavilion to head down to Copt Point, a well known fossil hunting spot.
The cliffs here are mainly greensand stone.
Since the past few weeks we've had some stormy and windy weather I thought there would be a good chance the weather may have scoured the cliffs and clay and exposed some fossils.
I wasn't the only one to think that - there were two others also looking through the rock pools, exposed cliffs, and poking the clay.
Like I say, it's a well known spot for fossils.
It was also a very cold day, and being on the exposed seafront it felt even colder in the wind.
I left the cliffs alone because that's where the other two were poking around. Instead I headed out to the water's edge to see what may have been tumbled about in the surf.
And lucky me!
Here's what I came away with:
That's my freezing cold hand after it had been submerged in the even colder water.
I'm also pleased to say that my find bettered the other two chaps (we had a chat and compared findings. I was particularly pleased because they had sneered at my decision to head away from the cliffs).
There was only one way to warm up - a mug of hot chocolate.
And now home, with warm ruddy cheeks, and the fossil sitting on the 'curio shelf' in the study.
I set out early this morning and decided to make for the coast because I haven't seen the sea for some time.
Half hour later and I'm on the seafront at Folkestone, parked in front of the east cliff pavilion to head down to Copt Point, a well known fossil hunting spot.
The cliffs here are mainly greensand stone.
Since the past few weeks we've had some stormy and windy weather I thought there would be a good chance the weather may have scoured the cliffs and clay and exposed some fossils.
I wasn't the only one to think that - there were two others also looking through the rock pools, exposed cliffs, and poking the clay.
Like I say, it's a well known spot for fossils.
It was also a very cold day, and being on the exposed seafront it felt even colder in the wind.
I left the cliffs alone because that's where the other two were poking around. Instead I headed out to the water's edge to see what may have been tumbled about in the surf.
And lucky me!
Here's what I came away with:
That's my freezing cold hand after it had been submerged in the even colder water.
I'm also pleased to say that my find bettered the other two chaps (we had a chat and compared findings. I was particularly pleased because they had sneered at my decision to head away from the cliffs).
There was only one way to warm up - a mug of hot chocolate.
And now home, with warm ruddy cheeks, and the fossil sitting on the 'curio shelf' in the study.
