Birdlings Flat: Kaitorete agate beach

Where: New Zealand · Oceania · approx. -43.82, 172.7 (vicinity only)

Why this spot: Rockhounding locality: NZ's most famous gemstone beach, longshore drift piles agate, jasper and quartz pebbles from Canterbury rivers onto the Kaitorete gravel barrier

What turns up: agate, jasper, carnelian tones, quartz, petrified wood fragments, rare fossilized bone pebbles

Access: Open / legal.

Free public beach, casual hand collecting of loose pebbles is accepted practice, no digging into the barrier and keep quantities personal

Satellite view, historic-map overlays, tide/flow context and field notes are in the app. Exact research detail is part of Pro.