Coastal Wildflowers

[IcyBC]

Love the shots of wild flowers and the cow, Zig! Looks like it came straight for you

 

[zigs]

Love the shots of wild flowers and the cow, Zig! Looks like it came straight for you

Ta Icy

It did

 

[zigs]

Took a video last night

If you look carefully in the centre of the first bit, you can see the moonlight dancing on the waves.

 

[Becky]

you can see the moonlight dancing on the waves.

Beautiful! Looks like a lovely evening. Did you see any meteors?

 

[zigs]

Not last night, but I think the Perseid shower is about now, i'll have a look tonight

 

[zigs]

Here's a real rock that fell out of the sky



It's got a fusion crust where the surface melted as it dropped thru the atmosphere.

 

[Beverly]

Cool @zigs, did you catch it? or find in on the ground? We have a lot of those here that come out of the local volcano, but mostly we find them on the ground

 

[zigs]

Cool @zigs, did you catch it? or find in on the ground? We have a lot of those here that come out of the local volcano, but mostly we find them on the ground

Wish I had found it, bought it from a geology shop.

You find them on the ground

Think I paid a tenner for that one, seen a slice of an iron one about 6 inches across and only a quarter of an inch wide, sell for £780

 

[Beverly]

Well, your rock is from outer space and that makes it special, my rocks are only from way down deep in the earth. Obsidian is found frequently, usually bits of tools or weapons from the Aztecs, originally from the volcano. I have a fossilized clam shell from an Oregon beach that is said to be between 40 - 50 million years old. I like this one because it will always be older than me.

 

[zigs]

Aah, I thought you meant meteorites that had been eroded out of the volcanic cone

Our predecessors used flint for tools, same conchoidal fracture pattern.

Tee, hee Think my rock is 4.6 Billion years old

 

[Beverly]

Ooooooh, 4.6 Billion years, I don't think i have anything quite that old, other than maybe some elementary particles, but they are too tiny to see.