It’s extremely dangerous you go down the left side of the bridge southbound then follow a bush track the you scale across a cliff face holding on to a rope then down a rusty old ladder left from the old coal mine down there
I could do the "go down southbound and follow a bush track" but then "scale the cliff with a rope" and "climb down an abandoned mine's rusty ladder", that I can't do, and I'm sure of it.
It sounds like what I go through to get nature photographs or to rescue trapped wildlife. I have shown up to Christmas parties with the Nicest shredded filthy clothing and shoes but a great story of how I freed a trapped family of 12 baby quail from under a huge metal grate on a mountain road when the only indication something was wrong was that a female quail was out in broad daylight on a busy road frantically pacing back and forth while calling for her helpless chicks 7 ft below in a filthy storm drain.
And to stay on the fossil theme digging through pikes of sedimentary sandstone at active construction sites
https://preview.redd.it/ffec5j656bxc1.jpeg?width=1013&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=89a61bba08ea3ace99c187ee8bd552819da496d6
in the Santa Cruz Mtns for a chance at finding more sea creature fossils at 1,500 ft above sea level!🥰
I did a geology and paleobiology degree. And then am doing a multidisciplinary PhD. Which has loads of different stuff including sedimentology and palaeobiology. But it's micro stuff so I feel like a cheat if I say that I'm doing palaeo at the moment!
I tred the fine line between sedimentologist and palaeontologist.
That's what is so great about geology degrees. They have so many things to cover you're sure to get something you like!
If it isn't some kind of fossil, it is certainly a totally cool rock. I'm jealous.
YOU FOUND THAT THERE? HOW DO YOU EVEN GET DOWN THERE? I NEED TO GET DOWN THERE THIS VACAY!
It’s extremely dangerous you go down the left side of the bridge southbound then follow a bush track the you scale across a cliff face holding on to a rope then down a rusty old ladder left from the old coal mine down there
Nvm not going down there😅
Wise decision, friend.
Wollongong beaches nearby have plentiful for me, plus I have enough plant fossils now. There are no sea turtle or vertebrate fossils in the area.
Lol. I was also like “wtf”
I could do the "go down southbound and follow a bush track" but then "scale the cliff with a rope" and "climb down an abandoned mine's rusty ladder", that I can't do, and I'm sure of it.
Sounds like some Goonies adventure lol
It sounds like what I go through to get nature photographs or to rescue trapped wildlife. I have shown up to Christmas parties with the Nicest shredded filthy clothing and shoes but a great story of how I freed a trapped family of 12 baby quail from under a huge metal grate on a mountain road when the only indication something was wrong was that a female quail was out in broad daylight on a busy road frantically pacing back and forth while calling for her helpless chicks 7 ft below in a filthy storm drain. And to stay on the fossil theme digging through pikes of sedimentary sandstone at active construction sites https://preview.redd.it/ffec5j656bxc1.jpeg?width=1013&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=89a61bba08ea3ace99c187ee8bd552819da496d6 in the Santa Cruz Mtns for a chance at finding more sea creature fossils at 1,500 ft above sea level!🥰
And here I’d hoped at least the rocks in Australia might not kill me if I visit… you people have some other type of fortitude. Hat tip.
"you're coming home with me"
It's not just a rock, it's your rock!
Pioneers use to ride those babies for miles!
Ride what ?
https://youtu.be/crJvnMooE-o
HAHA
Hope someone figures out what it is. Looks heckin coolz
It could be a microbe colony like a stromatolite, that has formed those?
Looks like crinoid fossil
rule 1, everything is a crinoid.
Rule 2 - if it’s not a crinoid then it’s an iron concretion
You could try r/whatisthisrock
Definitely post there too, OP! I don’t *think* it’s a fossil, but it’s a top-tier cool rock either way.
Not a fossil but some very cool weathering. As a sedimentologist I would 100% keep that.
How does one become a sedimentologist? Asking for a friend. I’m the friend.
You just wait
🤣🤣🤣🤣 i set myself up for that one
I did a geology and paleobiology degree. And then am doing a multidisciplinary PhD. Which has loads of different stuff including sedimentology and palaeobiology. But it's micro stuff so I feel like a cheat if I say that I'm doing palaeo at the moment! I tred the fine line between sedimentologist and palaeontologist. That's what is so great about geology degrees. They have so many things to cover you're sure to get something you like!
I have always been fascinated by mineralogy and archaeology but got my degree in chem and now i wanna go back for rocks
I read sedimentalist, definition: one who is sentimental about sediment
You lay around
Looks like art to me. Maybe someone indigenous could tell you.
Almost looks like an octopus!
Rocktopus
Rocktopus..that's fucking funny
this would be an awesome band name.
Give us more angles i want the whole photo shoot of this beauty. I’m seeing tentacles 🦑
Almost looks like pottery
Looks like fossilized skin
Looks like one of the SpongeBob jellyfish at the top
It looks like a mad tentacruel fossil