LYME REGIS - DORSET

 I,ve just come back from a very enjoyable couple of days at Lyme regis.

After a 4hour treck leaving at stupid o clock (4am) wednesday morning, we arrived at Lyme regis, we stayed at the Cobb pub (would reccomend) and during the morning visited the local fossil shops, including the fossil work shop to see good friends Paddy and Chris, excellent very helpfull gents. We got onto the beach at Church cliffs/ Black ven at 1pm, but the beach was littered in glass and silt from the HUGE fall at church cliffs which happened last year in may. Black ven slips were a little more productive but still quite silted over. I found a piece of shark fin spine about 30mm long a nice but small paddle digit, and a very small fragment of lobster tail from the cretaceous greensand/gault clay, which had found its way onto the beach. Unfortunatly we found not a single pyrite ammonite this time which was unusual. I did find a anice lump of lias which i split and revealed 2 nice proms and a Cymbites. Paddy prepped this for me which he done an excellent job of, i,ll post pics tommorow of our finds. The thurs day we went to the Charmouth end along Stonebarrow cliffs, we found many pyrite ammonites and a nice phragmacone, along with a couple of tiny gastropods, but that was about it for charmouth not too good at all, still it was a nice walk soaking up the sun, a beautifull day. So that was it for Lyme and Charmouth quite silted over and very over collected, having gone just after the summer hols, but a very enjoyable trip to one of my fav places, worth a visit.

Cheers Pete g

 

Same here.

Even when I visit in the middle of winter there are always loads of other people hitting every rock in sight with hammers!!!