Lewis, one of our members at Dragon, has discovered a great local inland waterway collecting site .  With all the rain we have had this year, Lewis must had a good pair of wellies.

Lewis told me he has his eye on a large stone from the same area, but getting it back will be a real challenge as it is very heavy and a long way back to his car.

Here are a couple of the stones he has found.
Envy is a terrible thing.

Lewis also collected the river sand to use in the display. We think it is the way forwards, to use the local sand when we display our locally collected stones.

I have a theory, when the japanese stones where first collected, it would be reasonable to suggest they also collected some of the river sand as well and used it to display their collected stones. So, I suggest where possible we could use the local river sand.

The river sand lewis collected.
(I suggested to Lewis that perhaps he could sieve and grade the river sand, thus making a more uniform grain.)

The top and bottom of his very heavy collected stone.

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