Mount Hay 2Mount Hay Queensland Australia. The idea was to look for stones with a rounded bit on them. But they are not completely round when found. Can only see a small section of the rounded shape on what looks like an uneven rock. If we thought we had found one, we were to wash off the dirt and mud in the bucket. Then pop them into the bag to take back to the lady to tell us if we had found anything. We gathered what we thought were some small thundereggs - mind you, we thought everything was a thunderegg at first!!! Some of our rocks had lots of really small eggs stuck together over the surface - see pic below.
Off we went to have them checked out. As it turned out, we didn't do too badly. We had definitely found some small ones and one with some amethyst crystals inside - my birthstone! The lady cut through some of them for us so we could see the beautiful patterns inside. We were quite pleased with our efforts. Our eggs ranged in size from a small marble to a golfball. The ones below are displayed on an A4 piece of paper - to give you an idea of their size.
Did not get them all cut, but will take them back for a treat for Mum - she loves thundereggs - and she can have them sliced open. It is a nice surprise when opening a thunderegg. There is no way of knowing what you will find inside, for example - solid fossil centre or uneven crystals, the colour, shape and size, until it is sliced open. Our eggs were raw, not yet polished, but still looked beautiful. The small ones that were stuck together were very pretty, as they all had a different pattern and color within each tiny egg - see pic above, bottom left.
Rockhampton - Tropic of Capricorn Mount Hay 
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