Treasures of the Baltic Sea

...yyy...nooo, it`s not going to be about amber ;)

It`s going to be about the time when I was 8 years old and my adventure with collecting had just begun.
From the industrail region of Upper Silesia in the south of Poland, where I was born and grew up surrounded with chimneys and mines, together with my classmates I went to Dzwirzyno up to the north. I can still remember that while my friends were building castles, burying themselves up to their necks in the sand and swimming in the sea, I would spend my time breaking pebbles and looking for fossils. I just couldn`t imagine a better thing to do! Every day, I would carry rocks from the beach to the hostel, hiding them from the curious sights of my teachers under my T-shirt.

I took home a few of them, and this is what survived until today...

 Above two pictures of the same rock. Hundreds of tiny shells are visible.

 I am not sure what this one is but I guess it could be the spine (?) of some living creature :)
Edit: I`ve asked a specialist and I was told it is probably Orthocone

Here is a photo of a similar fossil that I found on the Internet:

I used transparent nail polish to preserve and protect the surface of my fossils and it looks like it`s done great job, because after 25 years it is still in place.

And at the  very end, I would like to share with you this beautiful photo of simple pebbles that impressed me so much, that I`ve kept them and displayed all these years. Beauty lies in simplicity. 

All photos taken by my lovely student from Spain- Marina Gonzales Bardon.
Thank you, Marina.