Stone found in boulderclay

bearing the scratches of having been churned around while being transported in a glacier.
Last ice-age boulderclay overlies the jurassic geology of Runswick Bay.

Sometimes you've just got to post a pretty picture....

Runswick Bay in the mist, 27 July 2008. Pic by Elke Watts.

Rocky beach overhang community...(100th post)

Top, the hard shale beach with saw wrack (Fucus serratus with Spirorba borealis worms encrusted on their fronds) and in the overhang: barnacles (not up on barnacle species yet), dog whelk (white centre: Nucella lapillus), below it and to the right a periwinkle (Littorina sp.), lurking above and left of the whelk is the limpet Patella intermedia and the green seaweed Ulva lactuca lower right.

This little community was on what I call belemnite flats, here today as the late afternoon sun burned the mist away:

Called belemnite flats for obvious reasons:

Original and best plesiosaur...

The pliosaur in the Natural History Museum London is merely a cast of one found at Kettleness: the original somehow found its way to Dublin. This one is an original, also found at Kettleness, and esitmated 180 million years old and displayed in all its incomplete glory in Whitby Museum in Pannett Park. They have a fantastic collection of jurassic fossils, most collected within a 10 mile radius of Whitby and a good few from Runswick Bay.

Low water, spring tides

Monday 21 July 2008

Cliff top flowers.

There's a vetch here, the rest can await the field guide unless anyone else knows.

If you visit Runswick Bay

and fancy a coffee or a meal, check out Saultz Bistro in High Street, Hinderwell at the Staithes end of the village. Your humble Runswick Bay blogger can attest that the food and coffee are excellent.

You're beautiful...

The head of a pliosaur quarried from Kettleness: the original is in Dublin, this cast is on the wall of the Natural History Museum in London. (Bad weather stopped play on the beach today.)