@TinFoilHat Never, unfortunately. That would be amazing!
The movie Sweet Home Alabama has the main character digging them out of the gulf beach sand, and putting them in art work.
A friend in California used to find beautiful colored glass globes washed up on the beach. She and her dad figured it was like fulgurite, and collected them. Green, and blue spheres; they're actually Japanese fishing buoys that got loose, crossing the Pacific.
I found what was likely a meteorite once at 7 yrs old, though. 12 LBS, size of large bowling ball and a 1/2. Washed up on the Atlantic shore, in the surf.
@SethGreene531 Wow! That's amazing. Near to where I live ite easy to find amonites belemnites and crinoid on the beach. A meteorite would be really exciting though!
@SethGreene531 Both. It's easy to find loose ones in the shingle or you can buy a chisel in the visitor centre and dig on the bigger rocks. It always amazes me that you can take what you find home. Some people have dug out bones.
@TinFoilHat That is astounding. Afterall, where not talking about collecting sea shells here. These are often under glass in museums, the first origins of life on earth. That they're getting to take home bones in a "finder's-keeper's" charter of rights and freedoms, is wrong.
Guessing the chalk marl has a lot of these fossils in them, and soft enough to dig out.
@SethGreene531 I've always thought the same. They ask people to take anything they're uncertain about or anything that might be a 'significant find' into the centre for identification but there's no law which says anyone has to do so. Plus the items on display which have been found on the beach are 'on loan' from the 'owner' (finder).
@TinFoilHat That's a shame. You're losing pricelesss records of history. The honor system seldom works out. The govt. is allowing the common citizen--or foreign tourists for that matter---to dictate policy. ...sigh 😔
Clay and shale..got it, okay. Wow. Probably a petroleum rich are also. I suppose they'll be drilling offshore there soon enough.
@TinFoilHat My gosh, that's tremendous. A site they'll drill for the next 50-100 yrs likely.
It was a lucky guess really; we've got similar drill sites here in any area that has fossil deposits or the right stratification. Both off-shore, and on. It's a huge payday for the companies.
"Fracking" is all the rage to drill on shore shale gas. And it's destroying water tables and ecosystems, creating earthquakes and sink holes.
@SethGreene531 when you shared that video about Louisiana I saw it said that it has a mix of French, Spanish, German, African, Irish and Native American influences and that sounds really interesting. Europe is a lot of culture all crammed together. 😆 You should plan a route!
@TinFoilHat Yeah the southern United States is a melting pot of many cultures and influences. Parisian French who were exiled in Louisianna, known as the Creoles, have their own dialect, cuisine, and mixed heritage.
Native American tribes spanning all 4 corners of the map, including the Pawnee, and the Spanish speaking Navajo. Spain formerly owned California, and its influence and place names are still very much alive.
The African slave trade grew roots that became the backbone of gifted musicians, preachers, and leaders for change.
Irish immigrants settled in NYC to form the character and culture of the boroughs we know today.
So yes, can't wait to visit Europe, and I have a route planned.
Fly to Paris. Spend 3-4 days, then on to Nice, and then DRIVE the Cote De Azure roadway descending into Monte Carlo.
Ferry to the white cliffs of Dover, train to St. Pancras.
UK --Edinborough, Dublin, Yorkshire, London, the Cotswalds, and Devon/Cornwall.
Ferry back 2 Calais--train through Alps to Zermat, then to Austria, Germany, Praugue. Italy---Florence, Amalfi coast, Positano, train to Venice across bridge.
@SethGreene531 Okay...I wasn't expecting you to have a route planned already. 😆 It'll be amazing. I haven't been to Florence or Venice but the rest is stunning. 😍
I once lived across the road from my airport. I packed far too late. Heard an engine winding up, ran out to the top of the hilly drive in my slippers, to see my plane clear the airfield fence.
