The Hastings Point Rocky Shore is a quietly sheltered unique, littoral environment. With its myriads of tidal pools, classically stepped platform, crevices and rocky faces it is an ecosystem of fascinating variety.
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The platform you see exposed on the low tide and the headland you are standing on is a ridge of partially metamorphosed sedimentary rock, pushed up from the sea bed over many millions of years.
Over time, wind, waves and rain have eroded the rock to form a cliff face; a wave cut platform and a shallow reef labyrinth that now supports a great diversity of flora and fauna.
The Aboriginal people of the Tweed Coast are closely identified with the Cudgen. These people were thought to number many hundreds prior to European settlement and occupied the area south of the Tweed River mouth down to Pottsville and west to Condong Range.
In order to log your find, visit GZ to answer the following questions. Please email the CO with the answers. Do not put your answers in your log. Photos from GZ are welcome and encouraged in your log.
This is an Earth Cache and has special requirements for logging it. You cannot log a Found It without responding to the logging requirements set out below.
Only one find claim per Message. Each Geocacher claiming a find must submit an individual response. One team can not lodge a response on behalf of a group of people. This will avoid confusion when matching logs with responses. I am sure everyone will understand.
Question 1: How long ago was the metamorphosed sedimentary rock pushed up from the sea bed?
Question 2: What forces caused the formation of the rocky outcrop you are looking at?
Question 3: How does the Littoral Environment differ from other environments?
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