April 26, 2012 Tufa Towers

CaliforniaMama • Apr 27, 2012 1:56 am
[FONT="Franklin Gothic Medium"][SIZE="2"]Mono Lake, California[/SIZE][/FONT]

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[FONT="Franklin Gothic Medium"][SIZE="2"]These are tufa rock formations that are made of sedimentary rock formed by carbonate materials.

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ZenGum • Apr 27, 2012 8:00 am
They're clearly fossilised camels.
newtimer • Apr 27, 2012 10:15 am
So? It looks like a closeup of my shower curtain.
Gravdigr • Apr 27, 2012 12:20 pm
God booger.
infinite monkey • Apr 27, 2012 12:25 pm
There was some kind of 'game' or 'hobby' thing when I was a kid. I'm remembering it as some kind of wet sand that you dribbled to make things that look a lot like those TufaTowers, but for the life of me I can't remember and google isn't helping.

Does anyone remember?
Happy Monkey • Apr 27, 2012 12:31 pm
Was it this?

I used to do it with regular wet sand at the beach, to make forests around my sand castles.
infinite monkey • Apr 27, 2012 12:35 pm
No, I mean it might have been scientifically similar but it came in a box...like a toy or board game or something...
RocketGirl • Apr 27, 2012 12:42 pm
infinite monkey;808946 wrote:
There was some kind of 'game' or 'hobby' thing when I was a kid. I'm remembering it as some kind of wet sand that you dribbled to make things that look a lot like those TufaTowers, but for the life of me I can't remember and google isn't helping.

Does anyone remember?


I remember! It was Wham-o Magic sand! It came in a little plastic bottle with a Genie on it! Great fun!
infinite monkey • Apr 27, 2012 12:51 pm
Yeah, it must have been that. I'm still not finding pictures that ring a bell vis a vis the box or anything...but it worked that way. I remember making things in those little goldfish bowls like you used to get at the fair if you threw a ping pong ball at the fish.

I also had one of these. I took it to school and Sister French Fry was all like "what do you MEAN the sand never mixes up? It looks all mixed up to me!" Yeah, well, you're a crotchedy old bat who told me my dead mangled cat most certainly would NOT go to heaven...and the sand unmixes itself...you mean old fart. ;)
RocketGirl • Apr 27, 2012 1:12 pm
Go to this link that will trigger the memories - you can go nuts! Awwh!
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http://www.toywhimsy.com/2009/01/wham-o---flash.html
infinite monkey • Apr 27, 2012 1:20 pm
:)

I saw that picture but it didn't seem familiar. I could be just not remembering it or it could be that, as usual, we got the knock-off wannabe toys.

Like everyone else had an easy bake oven, I had like "Suzy Homemaker" oven or something. :lol:

Oh, here it is...see, it didn't even have the conveyer belt.