For geological info about this place click on the link: Dixons Reef & High School Beach

Weather

No wind at Dixons Beach but cool wind around corner on High School Beach. Watery sunlight and cloud lifting. Mid-tide and rising.

Sounds: seagulls

This turtle shell came from Kempsey, NSW but I brought it along as it is so similar to the Turtle fossils described in Simon Stephens essay on the Geology of this area. ⇒

p.18 & p.19 Geology by Simon Stephens.pdf

TC journal

• Turtle Fossils were found nearby here
• jack jumpers
• what looks like a petraglyph but assumed a fake
• patches of clay

We started at Dixons Beach and planned to work our way back south to the volcanic tuff on the High School Beach.

Because Dixons beach is so sheltered from the prevailing winds yet has the reef and rocky coastline nearby you can see why it is a large midden site.

Observations:

Looking northeast up the coast you see waves breaking on Dixons Reef projecting out from the mouth of the large (unnamed) creek and beyond that crumbling mudstone cliffs to Grange Beach and another rocky point projecting into the river. On the other side of the river is Droughty Point with its 3 ancient volcanoes still discernable.

TC journal

photo of High School Beach showing Tuff seam.

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