A Beautiful Spring Day on the Beach, and Great Rocks Too!

hey everyone uh it's that wonderful time of the year when i get to get out the beaches and find really cool rocks and then drop back in the water and disappoint everybody so uh speaking of that last time i was here was last fall and i found a cool looking rock and everybody was really disappointed when i left it behind so i had set it up on something right near our park and i promised i'd look for it when i got back this year so i did and uh it was right where i left it let me get it wet [Applause] it was uh almost right where i left it it was just uh down the sand um it's fallen off the thing i left it on so as promised i will bring it home and do something with it i'm not sure what um probably try tumbling at first and if that doesn't work i'll slice it up and see how it looks so let's go find some other cool rocks pretty stone i don't know if i've ever mentioned this but i like putting stones oh that's a nice one oh it's a really nice one look at that jasper in there i like how it's banded right up here that's a keeper can find something else cool right there i found one of these out here one other time that's a banded iron formation which i find in lake superior but not that often unlike huron in fact i think this might only be the second one ever awesome it's shaping up to be a good day in case you're wondering it is still pretty cold out here supposed to get in the mid 40s today but overnight it's cold here's a petoskey stone it's a coral fossil called hexagon area and that's the kind of don't take home or one of the kinds they don't take homes here there's those brown spots there those don't polish up very well some people call them dead eyes or muddy spots or whatever but maybe those behind that rock right there is uh 2.2 billion years old goganda tillite [Applause] look at that one nice looking petoskey stone that's going in the bucket [Applause] just found this guy beautiful pudding stone all the way around so a pudding stone is a conglomerate type rock the red in there is jasper i think the blacks the browns are chert there's white quartz in there these were named by english settlers who thought they looked like a suet pudding with berries in it and that's a really really nice one that's what's great about getting out early in the spring as you find the best rocks [Applause] see a pudding stone [Applause] unfortunately it's too big to bring home it's pretty darn nice [Applause] they're just putting stones everywhere today that one's uh pretty good on that end and not so good here and i've already got a couple better ones so we'll leave that one for somebody else ooh nice piece of unicite there can't get it out here we go actually i take that back unikite's actually a type of granite and you can see it looks like granite there and when it has black in it that black always undercuts when you tumble it but right through there it looks pretty good what else can we find another a little pudding stone very good one another pudding stone it's worth rolling over now putting stones a sedimentary rock you can see where the layers are in this and sometimes it has really good layers and then there's there's nothing in between so there's a sort of good layer because there's one piece in there you kind of see a band and then there's just a very thin layer on the top there [Applause] that's the goganda till light but i'm after this one epidote really nice color if you saw my video where i made christmas ornaments this will make good uh christmas trees and stockings and stuff [Applause] [Applause] hey i found a rock like this before that's at least similar to what i found in rogers city last year i think that's feldspar there the little pieces maybe kind of neat [Applause] i have found so many pudding stones today can't bring them all home so i don't know i'll take it back to the bucket and see which ones look better a pretty rock i've found this kind of rock before never this big usually smaller and i throw them the tumbler and they never shine up i don't know what that is but i wish it's showing up better than it does and up here i notice there's a mylar balloon i find more mylar balloons than just about any other kind of trash i don't know if i can get to it without ripping my waders when you find trash in the beach be a good person to pick it up i just pulled this out of the water it's a petoskey stone uh there are pink petoskey stones and this does have a slight pink hue to it uh it's not a very good one though so i'm not going to keep it but i don't know if that's just skin deep or if that's truly a pink petoskey stone but pretty washed out pattern see another one over here that's the back side of it and nothing there oh well i thought all the snow was gone but there's snow for ice just found another pink tusky stone but again it's really poor quality definitely pink on that one though a little bit down there too interesting that's just quartz i know it gives it the blotchy colors well that's a cool looking rock that's a fossil coral called cladopora those look really neat when you slice them up someone doesn't have quite enough stuff in it to bother with and it's too big for my saw what i actually saw over here is this one and i think i'll bring that one home that's neat not sure what that is i don't think it's epidote not quite the right color but close maybe it is i don't know i just like the design in it if you're enjoying this video i don't ask this very often but uh try to remind you once a year to uh push that like button that really helps me out helps the channel out i appreciate it and i won't nag you again about it for a while and if you're new here uh there's lots of other videos like this one beach hunting videos i hunt lake michigan lake huron and lake superior haven't been to the other two great lakes not to hunt them at least i also do lapidary videos where i slice up rocks and make jewelry and different things out of them and it's not a cool green rock and i do rock tumbling videos oh that's neat i don't know if that one will fit my saw let's see a potential petoskey well it's a petoskey i don't know if it's a keeper it's pretty good those brown spots aren't great i don't know i think i can do better than that one it's pretty good though sometimes it's hard to decide i used to put them all in my bucket when i couldn't decide and now i tend to leave them when i can't decide so i think i'm going to leave that one behind but that's pretty good at this broken up mudstone neat patterns on this rock not very hard though that's the other part that it came out of love those swirly patterns on that rock nothing much on the bottom a lot of mudstone on this beach here's one another big petoskey stone that isn't a keeper crack with a stripe [Applause] piece of blue shirt i don't think that blue goes all the way through i tumbled some last year and didn't really come out blue in the end lots of fun rocks out this fossil the coral right there looks like charlevoix stone or uh bava cities davis ladies there's from taski stone some other sort of a coral right there fun stuff nice looking unikite and a big rock with a stripe [Applause] another nice little unikite it's about a little tiny chain coral those look really cool when you soak them in acid i'll link a video here for that so if you want to see a little bigger one i'm not going to take that one home because i don't know what i do with it look at this one that's got to go on the tumbler huh yeah it's pretty cool i feel like i might have shown this exact same rock before might be here from last year still cool still too big to do anything with hey big petoskey stone doesn't look very good but just out of curiosity i'll dig it out it's a big one not a keeper though have not done very well in pitoski's today it's always hope though sometimes you get in an area and you find more of one kind of rock than another i've seen petoskey it's just nothing worthwhile [Applause] that's a big horn coral that's a fun green and red granite that's a decent little petoskey stone good white lines in between good solid pattern another piece of that blue shirt pretty little rock i might throw that one in the tumbler there's a pretty good one take that one home nice banded shirt small but that's going to look beautiful polished up starting to find a few better petoskey stones it's gotten really rough though so kind of got to grab them quick that's a good one here's another one that's not too bad just rescued this little guy from the waves it's a nice one it's a small one but that's probably the best one i found um it's really small but it's really nice pattern boy the weather sure did change uh thanks for coming along with me uh i'm freezing so i'm gonna jump in the jeep and go home so see you next time you

Channel: Michigan Rocks

Views: 405,111

Keywords: Michigan Rocks, beach, rockhounding, rockhound, rock hunting, rock hunt, Lake Huron, A walk on the beach, Great Lakes, puddingstone, pudding stone, Petoskey stone, Michigan, banded iron formation, jaspelite, rocks, stones, beach combing, waves, relaxing, geology

Id: 9cM_AdG-rqM

Length: 24min 20sec (1460 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 02 2021