Today, rainy, cool. No snow on the ground, not at lake level, and it being a Sunday I'm out walking, looking for arrowheads on the beaches on the lake front.
This area, most of it deformed, built up with big basalt boulders, chances of finding anything - zip.
But there are a few little spits that look like they've never been adjusted, and those are where I'll spend the day.
Not entirely unproductive...
The piece on the left, a scraper of some such, made out of Kootenay Argillite, quarried somewhere by Kaslo. Easy to recognize, I've found a lot similar in Balfour.
The left-most edge looks to have been worked, maybe as a scraper, note the many small divots.
The piece on the right, not sure, black jasper? and - again - a big paleo-maybe, unsure if it was a tool or a fluke of erosion. Not the same material I'm used to finding, and too weathered all-round to be sure.
Note that in Nelson there SHOULD be other tools showing up, different materials, but I'm not sure this is it.
Anyways, a lot of searching and staring at the ground for a lot of hours for precious little return. Need to get back to Balfour...!!!!