- Details
- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Found
- Hits: 810
....And articles like this:
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-australia-48331769
You know that it's a slow news day in Australia when they report this stuff because, basically the entire continent is made out of Gold Nuggets and Koala Bears.
The Australian Firefighter is back, beard ever longer, and as he sits in the restaurant I tease him mercilessly, the lazy Australian who has to come to Canada for work because he's too lazy to pick up all of the gold nuggets outside his front door...
AU - The abbreviation for both Gold and Australia. We live in a world of metaphor and that can hardly be a coincidence...
- Details
- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Found
- Hits: 831
Work, Sleep, Calgary, and when I return and catch up one news it has to be articles like this:
Link: https://www.odt.co.nz/news/australia/aussie-girl-stumbles-across-35k-gold-nugget
- Details
- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Found
- Hits: 819
The daughters idea, and so we head out to Drumheller, a better trip than the last.
The weather warm, we walk a half hour back into the canyons before beginning to explore. A few small pieces of bone, nothing to get excited about, then - after a couple of hours - the daughter turns up this:
Look above her forefinger, it looks like just another piece of bone - until - "look closer" she tells me...
Serrated, an inch long raptor tooth. One of the best finds yet, I've found bits of raptor teeth, but none as large or complete as this...
She finds a few other teeth fragments, most small, under a centimeter - my eyes are done, looking at the ground trying to spot teeth fragments is a bit detail oriented for me, I need to up my eyeglass prescription...
My own find of the day? Well, nothing comparatively but a small - meaning a centimeter or so in diameter - vertebrae:
- Details
- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Found
- Hits: 801
The $150,000 she made is going to be nothing compared to the millions she makes running the "Psychic Friends Network".
- Details
- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Found
- Hits: 818
Vitrified sand created by lightening strikes, in antiquity they were known as "Thunderbolts" - proof of the missiles sent from heaven. Some display rather curious shapes and compositions:
Link: Wikipedia on Fulgurites
A general image search: Images of Fulgurites
Fulgurites on Beaches: Images of Fulgurites on Beaches