wuwei4days
Just Arrived
Greetings, 1st post here -hope im posting this in the right place.- been lurking a while now, only in recent months signed up and giving the 'likes'. Appreciate everyone here and the wealth of knowledge shared. Immense grattitude!
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So, I have returned recently from several days trekking here the south point of australia mainland (-a peninsula jutting into the bass strait) with a small bag of natural goodies to play around with.
I am hopeful that one of these goodies is indeed brown ambergris.
I have done the hot pin test to seeming success... fingernail can make an indent if pressed firm... the dry parts are sorta waxy, the wet parts, tacky-sticky...
its slowly drying out over these last few days, dropping in weight by maybe, 300-ish milligram each summer day here...
THe SMell?! sweaty socks, leather, tobacco equine/horse, definately beachy sandy sea but sweetening as its drying out...
everything ive read it seems to tick the boxes, however this piece looks a bit gnarlier than any image i can find... lots of cross section kinda areas displaying structure... most images i see are more rounded out and polished... just thinking this could have not spent so much time being polished out by the elements... but perhaps its just a stanky nectarine pit of course im hopeful... also thinking what else COULD it be??
*the last image you can see the pin burn mark on the left.
*the crystal ruby/amber bits are tree resin crumbs (my storage options were limited so shared the same bag...)
-much thanks in advance ouddicts!
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So, I have returned recently from several days trekking here the south point of australia mainland (-a peninsula jutting into the bass strait) with a small bag of natural goodies to play around with.
I am hopeful that one of these goodies is indeed brown ambergris.
I have done the hot pin test to seeming success... fingernail can make an indent if pressed firm... the dry parts are sorta waxy, the wet parts, tacky-sticky...
its slowly drying out over these last few days, dropping in weight by maybe, 300-ish milligram each summer day here...
THe SMell?! sweaty socks, leather, tobacco equine/horse, definately beachy sandy sea but sweetening as its drying out...
everything ive read it seems to tick the boxes, however this piece looks a bit gnarlier than any image i can find... lots of cross section kinda areas displaying structure... most images i see are more rounded out and polished... just thinking this could have not spent so much time being polished out by the elements... but perhaps its just a stanky nectarine pit of course im hopeful... also thinking what else COULD it be??
*the last image you can see the pin burn mark on the left.
*the crystal ruby/amber bits are tree resin crumbs (my storage options were limited so shared the same bag...)
-much thanks in advance ouddicts!