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Sat 07 Nov 2020

Shells

Around noon we went by bike to the town of Monster. Close to the beach I led my family on a detour into the dunes; I wanted to show Adam and Alice where as a child I had been looking for fossils together with my brother Marco.

Adam and Alice looking for fossils
Adam and Alice looking for fossils.
Fossilized shell close up
Fossilized shell close up.
Cracked open shell showing halite crystals
Cracked open shell showing halite crystals (rock salt).

As I have found trilobite fossils in those rocks the fossils found must be between 521 and 251.9 millions of years old!

After exploring for a while we went to the beach. But when we arrived we all were hungry and thirsty so we went first for a snack and returned to the beach refreshed a little later.

Compass jellyfish Chrysaora hysoscella
Compass jellyfish Chrysaora hysoscella.
Alice walking on the beach
Alice walking on the beach.
Shells on the beach
Shells on the beach.
Alice about to join Adam exploring a tideway
Alice about to join Adam exploring a tideway.
Tiny skeleton of a sea urchin up close
Tiny skeleton of a sea urchin up close. Echinocyamus pusillus?
Common starfish that Adam found on Alice's hand. Asterias rubens.
Common starfish that Adam found on Alice's hand. Asterias rubens.