Bits of Joy - Agats
Last weekend, we went to the coast. We arrived at one of our favorite beaches, Fogarty Creak just a little after high tide. As the waves slowly pulled back more and more, they revealed these little hidden treasures. Agates! In the hundreds. My wife and oldest son were off hunting far up the beach. I barely saw either of them. My other three kids played on this rock ledge, setting up their camp chairs as if they ruled the beach, finding different ways of climbing up the rock. I stayed close, trying to always keep them in site. Consequently, my own agate hunting ground remained confined to a relatively small area. In fact a few times, I simply sat on the ground and picked up only those agates within reach. I still found some real beauties and a lot of them. At one point a woman and her husband asked me, “what is everyone looking for?” There were probably twenty or thirty people agate hunting all along the beach. I told the woman to hold out her hand. I took a small handful o...