WARNING: This post may contain poo!
As the second day of the weekend also turned out sunny (but not as balmy as yesterday), I had no choice but to go outside again. But this time down to the beach where some misty mysteries lay in wait:
While most of the beach was basking in sunshine, the wet bits and the cliffs weren't
The blazing sun was evaporating water from the moist sand and cliffs at a phenomenal rate
The mist cast an eerie pall as it rolled up the cliffs
There are also plenty of fossilised impressions of skin/scales, sea sponges or sea weed
For scale (because I couldn't be bothered to keep pointing), the belemnite is 4.5cm long
(that's about an inch & three quarters for those of you still living in an imperial world)
With the mist totally gone by the time I'd finished poking around, this is how Overstrand beach looked
Previous fossilisation (and less poo) - and a seal! - can be found here. I hope you all had - and are still having in many cases - a splendid weekend!
Fossil poo! You know how to live the high life.
ReplyDeleteIt was misty here till after lunch, too, and certainly wasn't sun-on-skin weather like yesterday, unfortunately... Jx
At least we got the sunshine at the weekend, for a change. Today has been misty, and dull, and cold, and drizzly all day.
DeleteUnlike some of the belemnites (and a shell), I left the poo down on the beach. It wouldn't have gone with my decor, here.
Those belemnites look like chopped off fingers! That beach looks tempting - well, once the mist burnt off, it did.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, have you changed your blog font? Something looks different.
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Fossilised fingers. How macabre. Still, the beach more than made up for it - it was glorious!
DeleteAs for blog fonts, the only one that I've changed recently is the font for photo captions. It's been Spectral for a couple of months or so (when I remember, anyway), otherwise, it's Trebuchet all the way (although, I'm starting to go off it...)
I had the same thought Ms Scarlet!
DeleteI actually didn't know that was fossilized poo. You are so instructive.
ReplyDeleteAlthough now I have this vreepicr suspicion that bellendites are fosdifossi fingers and not what we thought.
I won't ask whu you take a tape measure to the beach with you 😘
Informative and educational - well, occasionally.
DeleteIt appears that your dictaphone thingy is on the fritz. Either tha or your fingers have fossilised while you were typing your comment?
Is that coprolite? If so, from what? (And don't anyone say the obvious!)
ReplyDeleteSome of the exposed chalky bits are no unlike the ancient writing of places in the Olde World, like Mesopotamia, Babylon etc.
Uranus!!!
DeleteHee hee hee!! (Sorry, I couldn't help it)
I have missed the ocean among so many things that I've booked a place on the coast to take the family next week. Since the pandemic started we haven't traveled more than five miles from the house. The Covid numbers are fairly low right now and our brains really need the break. I hope to have some fresh new pictures when I get back. I wonder if anything will wash up from Japan. It happens sometimes.
ReplyDeleteOh, I hope you have a wonderful time away from it all! I'm looking forward to seeing your photos already.
DeleteAll very 'Billy Budd' with a bit of Mary Anning thrown in.
ReplyDeleteFab photos as always Mr. D.
Ah, thank you, Madam A!
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