My first time rockhounding at Slope Point, the southernmost point in the South Island, happened on Saturday 2 March 2024. I have been to the […]
Batch 45: Gemstone Beach Pink Thulite
Batch 45 stones are from Gemstone Beach. I’m pretty sure there’s a pretty pink thulite in the mix that I am very interested in seeing […]
Batch 35: Using 46 Grit
I’ve been looking for a coarser grit than 80/100grit for a while now so I messaged the friendly, helpful peeps over at Rock and Gemstone […]
Batch 48: Special Tumble for John M
A special tumble is when you have the pleasure of tumbling a batch of someone else’s stones for them. Batch 48 is a special tumble […]
Batch 44: Rockhounding in Kakanui
There are 51 redo stones in this batch of stones from my rockhounding in Kakanui. Some of the stones were originally in Batch 37 and […]
Batch 40: 36 Day Rock Tumbling Cycle
Batch 40 features stones from my local … Gemstone Beach but this poor batch was the forgotten batch with the 220grit rock tumbling cycle lasting […]
Batch 41: 80/100 grit on Repeat
Batch 41 features a total of 82 stones with quite a number of redo stones from various places (B27-28-29) but most of them are still […]
Batch 39: Rockhounding Gemstone Beach
On the 19th of October I popped down to Gemstone Beach on a special mission. My NZ rockhounding friend Nicola asked me if I would […]
Batch 33: Gemstone Beach and Money Agates
I relented. I went online and bought some money agates to tumble. Given that I live so close to Gemstone Beach and have a pretty […]
Batch 37: All Kakanui Stones
This batch is all Kakanui stones plus you may have read in an earlier post that my fingers slipped and I “accidentally on-purpose” bought another […]