(Look on the beach below this building) - 2007

If you walk East you will encounter sloping sandstone layers on the foreshore. These can be examined for tree trunk and branch fossils, bark impressions and less obvious smaller plant fossils. Thin layers of coal and carbon rich layers packed with unidentifiable plant remains are also present.

To the West there is a sandy beach next to the golf course club house. West of here the beach becomes rocky, with large sandstone boulders as well as smaller cobbles of sandstone and other types of rock. It is here that you can hunt for one specific type of rock that yields the best fossils.

Look on the surface of the rock layers - 2007

The blocks to look out for are a bluey-green colour and have thin seams of brown or black running around their sides. A few good thumps with a lump hammer to the areas with the seams should split the rock. Some will not break well and the fossils will be ruined, but some break perfectly along the carbon rich seam to reveal beautiful and intricate plant fossils.

(On the West side find the right type of rocks among the boulders) - 2007

(The right type of rock. Give it a whack) - 2007