28/2/21: FIELD TRIP Our club was invited to join the Horsham Gem Club for a field trip starting near Coleraine at the ‘Giant Rock Reserve’ and then travelling to a farm and two quarries. The field officer from Horsham, Bill Gardner, also organised a trip last year which several of our members attended.Photos below. Top row: L: walking towards Giant Rock reserve. R: climbing up the approach to the volcanic plug. Second row: view from top of plug.
Below: lunchtime in Coleraine, nice locality and we had a good time catching up with Horsham members. It was great to see a good turn up of members from both clubs.
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2022 CLUB ACTIVITIESWarrnambool Lapidary Club Excursion 6 Feb 2022Chasing up on a vague report of “a band of brown phosphatic nodules in the Clifton formation”, an expedition was mounted to Clifton Beach near Port Cambell. (photo left)The weather was superb, sunshine, little wind, and not too hot, which was good considering the climb down to the beach. After trekking along the beach, we fossicked for several hours in debris which had fallen from the cliff.The only thing that looked vaguely like the elusive nodules were small brownish-yellow nodules, however sectioning these later showed them to be mainly ironstone peppered with limestone, (photo below left)Some other white nodules from the other end of the beach showed a bit more promise polishing up to a light yellow. (photo below)