lapal_fan Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 4 minutes ago, bickster said: I found Crinoids (and Trilobites for that matter), not big ones but lots of smaller ones, not on a beach though.... I wouldn't advise going to this location though, it's like a jungle out there.... Wrens Nest in Dudley Bloody dangerous, not sure if the school is still there as it was years ago but there's us on a school field trip and there's the caged black country animals throwing rocks down on us from the school at the top Wren's Nest is weird. Before I went last year, I did a bit of research on it, all the pictures looked nice and rural. Then you put the post code in your sat nav and my face quickly dropped when I saw the surrounding... "vistas" It's not right! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 2 minutes ago, lapal_fan said: Is that a piece you have? Can get all sorts from Wren's Nest that's Silurian in age (450-420 million year ago). I've been a few times, but never yet managed to find the famous Dudley Bug! Again, you can't even take a hammer onto that site, which is a shame, because I've suspected some loose ones have something in them! No, that’s not mine, that belongs to the Royal Geological Society. I leave mine outside, anything truly exceptional I find I generally give to my brother who’s a bit more serious about it all. I don’t even keep the rough / 3D ones, I only keep the rounded black pebbles with smooth crinoid shapes. The rocks where I sit and contemplate life are pretty much entirely crinoid. At first it just looks like rock, then you get your eye in and realise the entire peninsular is completely made up of fossil plant material. Not a fossil here and a fossil there, just entirely fossil. It’s quite epic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 2 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: No, that’s not mine, that belongs to the Royal Geological Society. I leave mine outside, anything truly exceptional I find I generally give to my brother who’s a bit more serious about it all. I don’t even keep the rough / 3D ones, I only keep the rounded black pebbles with smooth crinoid shapes. The rocks where I sit and contemplate life are pretty much entirely crinoid. At first it just looks like rock, then you get your eye in and realise the entire peninsular is completely made up of fossil plant material. Not a fossil here and a fossil there, just entirely fossil. It’s quite epic. Sounds wonderful! Is that a specific beach around Barry, or is it quite common along that coastline (ala somerset)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted August 25, 2021 Moderator Share Posted August 25, 2021 13 minutes ago, lapal_fan said: Sounds wonderful! Is that a specific beach around Barry, or is it quite common along that coastline (ala somerset)? Its basically the same rock layer separated by the Bristol Channel (iirc) EDIT 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 Just now, lapal_fan said: Sounds wonderful! Is that a specific beach around Barry, or is it quite common along that coastline (ala somerset)? There must be an equivalent piece of geology the other side, I’d have thought. We’ve got a few different rock types here, we really are lucky. Sedimentary rock that has captured dinosaur footprints in a few places along the coast locally, plus this outcrop that is crinoid infested. I mean, they’re iddy biddy little things so I presume most people standing there don’t even see them and realise. But there is a particular place known locally as ‘the point’ and it’s crinoids. Then just a matter of meters away the rock is quite different. I mean, it’s no competition for the Jurassic Coast. Not by a long way. But it’s nice to have it a walk away from the house. Just walk through the park and on to the pebbles. Less than 2 miles from the Kiss Me Kwik fairground chaos. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 16 minutes ago, bickster said: Its basically the same rock layer separated by the Bristol Channel Except the other side is the new nuclear reactor being put together by the French and the Chinese, so I’d expect that to just be one **** huge diamond in about 20 years time as the earth begins to fold in on itself. A naturally windy part of the world, with a sunny microclimate and one of the largest and strongest tidal ranges on the planet. But ignoring the sun and the wind and the tides, we could just spend billions upon billions on a nuclear reactor that will generate power for 40 years and then have a lethal half life for 250,000 years.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 16 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: Except the other side is the new nuclear reactor being put together by the French and the Chinese, so I’d expect that to just be one **** huge diamond in about 20 years time as the earth begins to fold in on itself. A naturally windy part of the world, with a sunny microclimate and one of the largest and strongest tidal ranges on the planet. But ignoring the sun and the wind and the tides, we could just spend billions upon billions on a nuclear reactor that will generate power for 40 years and then have a lethal half life for 250,000 years.. Are they not building another power station, right next to Hinkley Point? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 Just now, lapal_fan said: Are they not building another power station, right next to Hinkley Point? They are indeed. The unlimited free energy from the first two is coming to an end, so they thought it would be best all round if they got the Chinese to knock up a third one. The price of the energy it produces, according to the Government’s own Audit Office, will be at least 8 times more expensive than the renewable alternatives. Spectacularly dangerous, dangerous for a quarter of a million years, 8 times more expensive than the alternative, we push on. Insane. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted August 25, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted August 25, 2021 On 24/08/2021 at 16:50, Ingram85 said: The Seaside. Love it. Went to Kilve beach yesterday just round the bend from Hinckley Point. Walked from Kilve to St Audries Bay to see the cliff top waterfall. Was a lovely walk (8 miles all in there and back so paying for it today, feel like I’m about to fall apart) and the waterfall was amazing. Surprised it’s not made more of as it’s really awesome. North Somerset is a bit of a hidden gem imo especially once you get beyond and out of Bridgwater. The stretch from Lilstock all the way to County Gate is really picturesque and the good thing is most of it’s never packed or busy as most people drive past it all en route to Devon and Cornwall or stay near Weston/Brean/Burnham. Guess the brown sea isn’t to everyone’s liking but I think it’s a beautiful part of the country. Think Dunster is my favourite part. Off to Porlock/Porlock Weir tomorrow or Thursday. Then a short drive to Clevedon (proper little hidden gem) on Friday. No more long walks though. We always used to stop off at Clevedon on the way home from Cornwall instead of stopping at a motorway service station. Have a nice pub meal overlooking the sea and take a stroll down the pier and tell the kids to look back at the town and pretend it was actually Balamory. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted August 25, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted August 25, 2021 6 hours ago, chrisp65 said: Isn’t it illegal to remove stones from the beach? As if anyone is going to find out. Its not like he's stupid enough to post pictures of it on The Internet........ Oh wait. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 10 minutes ago, sidcow said: As if anyone is going to find out. Its not like he's stupid enough to post pictures of it on The Internet........ Oh wait. I’m awaiting a substantial cheque from Crimestoppers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted August 25, 2021 Moderator Share Posted August 25, 2021 1 hour ago, sidcow said: As if anyone is going to find out. Its not like he's stupid enough to post pictures of it on The Internet........ Oh wait. There is a case you'll find on t'interwebs of someone from the West Mids who was ordered by a judge to return to Cornwall and deposit the pebbles back on the beach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bickster Posted August 25, 2021 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted August 25, 2021 Anyway nature cheered me up tonight. In the space of 15 mins the following happened On my way to my last pickup of the night down a very out of the way back lane, single track and probably sees no more than ten cars a day if that tbh and I'm confronted in the middle of the road by a young barn owl. Just sat there enjoying the mouse he killed. He looks up at me, looks directly at me and then has a little bit more to eat, then looks at me again. The seat belt was undone at this point, I was about to get out as this baby owl was giving the "Who the F*** are you, I'm harder than you" stare, you'll wait until I'm finished and just as I was about to get out to firstly take a photo then usher him away, he got bored of staring at me and flew off. I was left with the feeling that he really was in charge of this situation the brave little magnificent sod Five minutes later, I've picked the passengers up and we're heading back up the lane, the moon is in front of us large as life and just over the Pennines in the far distance, this is no ordinary moon, its bloody bright red, that fascinated me whilst I was driving until it was out of sight, So now I've dropped these people off and I'm on the lanes back to where I live and its starting to get misty, not that blanket mist we often get round here but whispy Scooby Doo mist, just streaks of it across the road, you can see above and below it and drive through it and it breaks up as you hit it Nature is a real force for cheering me up 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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trekka Posted August 28, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted August 28, 2021 Returning home after an amazing 4 days in Gibraltar. Everything about it was just perfect - even if we had to get tested upon landing, before takeoff and then again within 2 days of landing back in the UK. I want to go back. Now. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC_Hitz Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 2 hours ago, trekka said: Returning home after an amazing 4 days in Gibraltar. Everything about it was just perfect - even if we had to get tested upon landing, before takeoff and then again within 2 days of landing back in the UK. I want to go back. Now. It's an odd but really nice place. I only had a day there but I'd like to go back. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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