Hobby will take you to places that you wouldn`t even know exist

Hobby will take you to places that you wouldn`t even know exist
Diamond Rocks, The Mourne Mts, Northern Ireland

Saturday 14 May 2016

HUGE hematite from Owenahincha

One day MY BOYFRIEND ASKED ME IF I WOULD LIKE TO GO COLLECTING THE NEXT DAY (8-) )!!!!, so what else could I answer but "YES, OF COURSE!!!" It really doesn`t happen too often to hear something like this from him. Well, in fact, it doesn`t happen at all, this one time was an exception :)
The next day, together with my sis, we headed to the shore. No plan really, it was a spontaneous trip, we were kind of hoping to find some interesting spots on the way and stop at every one for a while. Unfortunately, this did not happen. We were driving around, along the shore, disappointed. I could see that Martin was getting discouraged; he was hungry, tired from the constant driving, annoyed as there were no good sites and the sky was getting gray. I suggested  that we could go to our old spot, Owenahincha, and see if we could find something there. It started to rain a little, and the tide was quite high, so the higher rocks located further down were inaccessible, we could only explore a small part of the beach. Luckily, we found some hematite after a few minutes and were lucky enough as Klaudia came across some REALLY HUGE BOULDER of white quartz, covered with hematite. She saw it 2-3metres above her head, stuck in clay and held by it. She climbed on the nearest rock and somehow managed to loosen it up, so it fell on the sand below. It was so big we couldn`t just take it like this, so we broke it into several smaller pieces, and as we did, it revealed more and more hematite. What a great finding!!!
The boulder already broken, Klaudia delighted with her finding!!!

Still dirty rock, hammer for scale

Many lovely pieces
This one was presented to a friend
One of the smallest

This rich piece has been sold, it`s going to be a part of someone`s collection
How do you like it? :D