Shark tooth fossil

Exploring Kawhai harbour, at Puti, we found the usual suspects - Belamites, or squids from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, and bits of Ammonites.  Oscar really enjoyed finding crabs.  Anneke found a shark's tooth!  We think it belongs to Carcharodon megalodon, similar to the Great White shark of today.

Kawhia

The school holidays aren't complete without a fossil hunt at Kawhia.  We found fossilised shells and belemites (fossilised squid). Tighe just looked for crabs and bones - and he discovered plenty of those!

Fossil hunting at Kawhia

 

 

 

We decided to take advantage of the tide, and boogie board down the sandhills at Ocean beach.  Low tide was hours away for the hot water,  so the boys ran up and down sandhills.  I looked for spiral shells, and tiny purple shells.  There were jellyfish on the beach which fascinated Tighe.

Boogie boarding the hills

Running down

Crashing at the bottom