Fall Agate Hunt on Lake Superior
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- I met up with local agate hunter Dan to hunt Vermillion Point. It was a fun day out. I even sliced one and tumbled another so you get to see how a couple of these rocks look after I got them home.
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I like your simplicity.
Smart man.
That jasper turned out remarkable!
This is so wholesome! Two guys meeting up to look for rocks, then meeting a third rock friend by accident and strolling down a beach while going "look at this cool rock I found" every few minutes 😄
We are simple people. Rocks are enough to make us happy. Running into John was one of the best parts of the day. It was his first rock hunt and he had watched both of our TH-cam videos.
Spring forward, Fall back. You made a new friend
Wow! That MaryEllen jasper is a beauty. What a polish!
Nice episode... little bit of everything.
A couple of the rocks you found reminds me of picture jasper. Lots of beautiful rocks.
Those two near the end? I think those might have been sandstone, but I'm not sure.
@MichiganRocks , time stamp 3:37 and 18: 37 I know it's now but just reminds me of picture jasper.
First commenter? Honored. It's a pleasure watching all the stuff you put out. Wish I had time to chase down the rock stash. My wife and I grabbed a few of your crosses at Olivet Book and Gift last summer; passed them out to others and had a chance to discuss their significance in the process. Keep up the faith and the good work!
Thanks for buying and distributing my crosses. I sell a ton of those and give a lot away too. They're a great little thing to make.
❤❤❤ I can’t wait to make it up there one day
It's worth the drive.
That mary ellen jasper is fantastic! Nice job❤
You think that's what it was? That's my best guess.
We passed you when you were leaving. I had a little meltdown because we missed you. But it was a good agate day.
Dan was catching a ride from Whitefish Point, back to the Soo and we were almost late. I wish we had time to stay and chat a little longer. Sorry about that.
Love your videos. Even though I majored in geology (before switching to physics) while in college fifty years ago I know next to nothing about rock hounding and lapidary. I know I wouldn't get five feet along that beach, I'd be picking up every rock with a bit of color.
I'm glad I saved a lot of time and money getting a geology degree, because it sounds like I can enjoy colorful rocks just as well as you can! Seriously, though, it is always more interesting when you understand more about any subject. I keep learning a little geology along the way, even thought it has been a slow process for me.
how cool that you met up with 2 guys at different stages of rock experience & love. the one you polished & tumbled is gorgeous
edit: i reread this & i should’ve said: the STONE you polished. you definitely didn’t polish one of the guys! 😳
That was the best part of the day. Dan has way more agate hunting experience and John had none. Best of all, we all found agates. What a fun day.
Great adventure. I have not found an agate yet. Thanks for sharing.
Gotta keep looking. We were out for about seven hour, I think. We all found some, but it's a long time between finds.
Hey Rob! Another great hunting video! I love how we get to see you find a rock, and then we get to see it slabbed, cabbed, or polished-all in the same video! That's the kind of instant gratification that keeps me coming back for more!
I sure hope you kept some of those yellow/orange rocks you found. There's been a number of occasions where you wished you had more of those colors (when making magnetic daisies for your daughter's old room, and for the fall leaves you made for Nancy).
Also, John is one lucky guy! He wakes up that morning and heads to the beach to look for agates, as I'm sure he's done a hundred times in the past-when suddenly, he sees two of his favorite TH-camrs walking towards the beach. So not only does he get to meet them, but he also gets to spend the morning rock hunting with them! Talk about being in the right place at the right time! I can imagine he was grinning from ear to ear, the entire time... I know I would be!
That was John's first agate hunt ever. He said he was there because of watching my videos. I'll bet he never dreamed that I'd be there to welcome him to his new hobby! It was the first time Dan had ever had anyone recognize him on the beach too. It was all really fun.
I didn't keep the big, yellow rock because they're always white in the middle. White is a good color to have on hand, but if I'm going to bring home a white rock, then I want a really white rock.
@@MichiganRocks John's first time?! That makes this whole thing even that much better! How absolutely awesome it was to share that experience with him! You can't get much better than that! Certainly a trip he will never forget!
Are there any rocks around that are actually yellow/orange, and not just surface stained? I feel like I've collected some, but now that I'm thinking it may just be on the outside...
I have a few extremely white rocks, which are quite large (football to basketball sized). I'm currently working on turning a single piece of one into a giant molar for my dentist. He sterilizes his used diamond burrs and then gives them to me instead of throwing them out. The best part is they work great, considering they are sintered, professional quality. Too bad my rock tooth gift could never return the favor... 😆
@@MrTurtleMontana That sounds like an awesome project. I hope you're not carving that big rock with those tiny burrs though!
I have never found a rock that was yellow all the way through, unless it was a small enough rock that the staining went all the way through. There are yellow rocks like bumble bee jasper, for example, but I'm sure you know that.
@@MichiganRocks LoL! That would be terribly painful!
Rough cutting an outline and then using the side of the diamond blade for the initial shaping. Will switch to a diamond cup on my grinder and then move to the flex shaft, right before throwing it in the 15# Model B for a few stages. I usually only run stage 1 in my rotary, but I doubt it will fit in my UV-10, so I have no choice. I'll shoot you a picture when I'm all done.
I'm going to check a few of my storage units (buckets) for any yellow/orange rocks that run more than surface deep, and I'll let you know what I find.
Wow what a beautiful morning, and so many stones to search.
I'm watching om my smart TV, and commenting on my phone.
Your dedication is amazing.
@@MichiganRocks 😂😂😂 I might be your biggest fan 😂😂😂, but it's not hard to watch and type.
The rock at 12:07 was really beautiful. Nice people. I hope you meet up again. Thanks.
That Mary Ellen Jasper is amazing, looks like a view into inner-outer space.
Wooo an agate hunt.
“I have too many rocks” and I reply, “Never!!!”
The polished rock is amazzzzzing! Thanks for taking the time to include it in this video. I guess you couldn’t hear me chanting, “Cut it!” When you were looking at the good sized agate you found today. 😅
Nope, I completely missed that. You might want to yell a little louder next time.
Enjoyed the video. Nice to meet two rock hounds. Thanks. Suzy
You throw away so many beauties. I would love to go through your scrap yard.
My scrap yard is the beach. I know I throw back a lot, but I really try not to take anything home that I can't do something with. I'm really into making something out of the rocks I collect, even if it's just tumbling them.
I like the idea of using camouflage gloves to sneak up on the rocks. I'm going to get a pair! Thanks for the video.
I know all the best tricks.
Wonderful I love your vids
Hi again! Thanks for another fun adventure. It has been at least 50 years since I was at Lake Superior and your wading has refreshed my memory of the incredible clarity of the water. I'm looking forward to seeing what the agates you've found look like finished. Fun to see so many top shelf leaverites too.
I don't tumble my agates. They're usually so small that I just hate to make them any smaller. They also look really awesome just as I find them.
It looked like you were finding pudding stones except the wear patterns were reversed.. It was fun watching you hunt for Agates.. Better luck nect time.. Thanks for new rockhounds to watch..
Looked like a pretty successful day! I discovered Dan's channel recently too. Seems like a nice young man!
He's really nice. He has some awesome agates too.
With all of those vivid colors I had to watch!
I guess I picked the right rocks for the thumbnail!
I loved the striped rock 15 minutes and 31 seconds in because it looked like a planet!
I was just out with WildKyle and he kept saying that rocks looked like planets.
Another great video. Next year we need a video of you snorkeling looking for those great agates. You know the closer to the ground our old eyes get the better we can spot stuff.
I'm not man enough to get into that water for more than a very quick dip. I do have a shorty wet suit and have gotten in before, but not often.
The jasper is beautiful!
Great to see you Dan! I subscribed to your channel a few weeks ago. Great to see my 2 favorite rock hunters searching for those precious agates on the same beach! What fun! Always enjoy the videos from both of you!!
Dan's finds really impressed me. I love his jars of agates.
I’m so busy with work! But I’ll stop and watch. Vermillion! I have to sing songs when I’m walking out, too creepy. 😂
Vermillion is creepy? I have never found it to be creepy. What creeps you out?
@@MichiganRocks late at night, walking out, I don’t want to run into large fury creatures.
@@I_wish_I_knew_something Oh, ok. I guess I understand that. I was out Yooperlite hunting there last summer with a guy who told me he had seen a wolf while on that beach.
Pebbles everywhere! Have a great day.
20:55 I've had a few like that. I threw them in the tumbler with rough grit. Inside I find chert, sometimes banded. occasionally an agate bit. A round with rough grit can expose some interesting things. Hello from Alpena!
That one is in the tumbler now. I really don't know what to expect. Hi right back at you from Alpena.
@@MichiganRocks Hi Rob, Daniels comment is exactly what I was talking about in my comment !
@@davidhile5363 I'm getting excited about that one now!
I'm always amazed at how the different rocks in your area. What a variety! Some day I'm going to visit your area and go rock hunting. Was supposed to go this year but didn't make it, unfortunately. Family had a car accident and I'm still in Iowa. Thankfully no one was serious hurt. You all found some cool rocks!
Bummer about the accident. I'm glad no one was injured.
Keep in mind that I travel a lot to make some of these videos. I drive about 3.5 hours to get to this beach on Lake Superior where the agates are. Lake Huron is where I live and the rocks are different there.
i love walking alongside your rockhunters. My garden had being filled up quit fast for sure🤣if I had walked there.
You might have reconsidered if you had to haul the bucket.
Awesome hunt!
My goodness, that shine!!!
The rock came out beautiful.
Love the last rock you polished!
I was actually watching Christmas cooking shows, and the beautiful thumbnail of your video popped up.
It's looked christmasy 😊😊😊
You might need to did into the stones to find the Agates
It's funny that you say it looks Christmassy. I just cut up some similar rocks to make Christmas ornaments today. I have a couple new ones I'm making this year.
@@MichiganRocks oh cool, I like seeing what you make at Christmas time.
Hopefully you'll be able to make a snowflake. ❄️❄️❄️😊😊🤶🎄
@@nicolagraynewzealandrockho8976 I wasn't planning to, but maybe I'll give it a try.
@@MichiganRocks I meant to say dig into the stones 😂
Hi Dan.
Hahahaha I laughed out loud when you said you didn't want to bring very many rocks home. Haha not usually the goal for rock hunting. This is a beautiful spot. Hi John
Thanks for a great video
I went out west rock hunting this spring and then stopped at my two favorite rock shops along the way. I'm kind of over stocked on tumbling material, so I really was trying to not bring much home. I was not opposed to taking agates home, though.
I have a lot of "leave er rights" they are nothing but they are pretty. I love to watch your adventures
Great history on the brick. I’d have to keep it, just for history alone. Nice to see you finding some fellow rock wizards! Hope you and your family are well . Love the polished rocks!
I enjoyed the brick story too. I have been to Crisp Point Lighthouse many times, so I know right where it came from.
Me thinks that you have a new eye out for that funky big agate you found before. I can see it eh?
Nice agate Rob! I think you caught up.
I did ok in the end, but it was a slow start.
Great video, reall enjoyed it.
Coming to you from central New Mexico waiting for the NM Mineral Symposium.
Vermillion; that's another place I haven't been to in years and I don't believe Dr. Nat has ever been to. Maybe we'll check it out next summer...
I had a ball the day I was there for this video, but I don't know if I'd recommend Vermillion just any time of the year. Sam and I were there in June and we couldn't even make a video. We walked in the other direction toward Crisp Point because the beach was off limits to the east because the endangered piping plovers nesting there. The beach was almost all sand at that time. Nancy and I experienced the same lack of rock there a couple years ago. Other times it's awesome, but you just never know.
Great finds and beautiful scenery❤allways love ur hunt trips🥰
Rob, that first Agate looked like it had some amethyst ! What's that silly talk, "this rock didn't have much purpose, "?
I will say that your conservative boundaries regarding how much rock you should bring home would serve me well and make my son full of joy😂😂😂
Someone else said the same thing about amethyst. I looked at the video again, and I agree. I'll have to go dig that one out of the jar I threw it in to look at it again. I don't remember it looking like amethyst when I found it.
Great finds! Love the banded chert!
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Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful agates and stunning jasp-agate! You did an amazing job polishing it! 😊
Thanks!
I am with you Rob rocks just have a natural draw you want to pick them up, some of the best polishing stones are not always what you are seeking.
If I only ever picked up agates, it would be a pretty slow day.
Very pretty rock you shined up at the end! I just subscribed to Dan's channel. Thank you.
Yeah, that one was pretty cool.
5:53 😂 I love a good dad joke
Old disabled house bound dusty rusty rockhound here: That rock ended up georgious. You do a mean shine.
Another great video! Beautiful agates! We didn't find any when we were in Calumet this past July, but we'll try again next year!
They're pretty hard to find, but if you look long enough, you will.
Nice! New video! ❤🎉
The agate you found with the quartz looks as thought it may be amethyst (6:53). Thanks for sharing. Take care.
I see what you mean when I look at the video. I didn't notice that in real life.
I love rocks,so many beautiful colors
That rock is cool nice shine I bet you’re happy to give that one a Jeep ride!
I had enough room, so I was very glad to give it a lift.
Beautiful...it reminded me of something you'd see from a Hubble photo. 😊❤
Man I live in Ohio so I don’t have any rocks that will tumble good around here except Lake Erie, and Flint ridge, maybe the Ohio river. But I’m not near any of those places and can’t drive yet
So all those rocks you throw away are so much to me. I do find quartz and quartzites and I do try to tumble granite that doesn’t have much black in them
Good job on avoiding black in the granite you find. Some granite with very little black actually does ok. Flint Ridge is awesome when you get your license.
Boy I wish I was rock hunting! I was recently in the U. P. Do you ever go out looking for yooperlites?
Yes, I have looked for Yooperlites a few times. They're fun to look for, but there's not much to do with them. I have a few at home to show people, but I leave most of them on the beach.
Nice!!!
I miss Michigan and Ohio but California has my heart and family ❤
Love your videos as always!! Thank you for sharing....
I’m excited to go there too! Thanks for sharing!
That was a great video! The Shadow agate which Dan found looked very similar to one I found years ago, except mine also had crystals in the middle. Beautiful fortifications. Toward the end, you hit a jackpot of some really nice finds. The last one had awesome colors after tumbling. Hello to Nancy. God bless.
I wish my camera had focused better on Dan's shadow agate. I got a few decent glimpses of it, but the darn camera was focused on his hands half the time. Sorry about that.
I lived in MI for 14 yrs now I live in AZ and have found buckets of fire agates
I have a couple fire agates that I should play around with. It takes some skill to polish those properly.
hi . my wife and i went went for a fall rock hunt on lake winnipeg in manitoba and the shoreline is littered with zebra mussel shells. they showed up here several years ago from the great lakes. wondering if you still have them there never seen them in your videos
I don't think there are any in Lake Superior, but they're thick on the beaches on Lake Huron sometimes. They're also in Lake Michigan and most of the inland lakes, I think. The showed up in the inland lake I grew up on in the late eighties.
Oh my gosh, that beautiful agate @16:24 is BEAUTIFUL!!! I need to send you some pics from our Michigan trip. We made it to Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, but not north to Alpena or Lake Superior. It was a great trip though. We will be back!!!
Ooh, ooh 21:29!!!! Nice!!!
@@lisawells1064 I'm glad you had fun! First time?
Yes!!!
Nice hunt, beautiful weather for late October. Enjoyed the other rockhounds. Nice finds. The new knee is ready for some rockhounding.
That's great news about your knee! Go get 'em!
I’m going to have to get up there to Lake Superior next summer. I think I’m getting agate fever. You really had some extra ordinary finds there that weren’t agates, beautiful stuff. Have you ever tumbled a rock and found that there was something completely different inside once the outer layer was tumbled away ? I’ve been finding that lately with a certain type of rock and I’m not even sure what the rock on the outside is called. Am I even making any sense. I may have to send you some pictures down the road.
Nice video Rob !
No, I can't really think of a rock that looked much different on the inside. The color can change, but that's about all I've ever noticed. That big yellow rock was almost certainly white on the inside based on my cutting of quite a few yellow rocks in the past.
I'd love to see a picture of your surprise rocks.
Nice
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7:50. Banded carnelian in the matrix? I'm just a back seat driver for you.
No, not carnelian. Carnelian is translucent.
Hi Rob, nice video, the jasper is so stunning !
20:57 mystery matrix.
Where do you get the scoops from? They look light.
Looks like a large metal kitchen spoon held into a piece of plastic piping somehow. It would be easy and cheap to make.
he makes them himself, he has an older video of him making one. As previous commenter said it is a kitchenspoon and pvc.
Yep, I made it myself. Easy to do, lightweight, and cheap. Win, win, win. th-cam.com/video/94qD2d34Ge4/w-d-xo.html
Basalt and rhyolite are basically the same. Volcanic. Rhyolite is just red.
I'm ok with that explanation, but I'm also not a geologist.
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At 1734. That looks like dinosaur bone
That would be cool, but even less likely than pet. wood.
@@MichiganRocks well, fossil bone anyway! Lol
Hi, I adore learning about fossils around Petoskey, particularly different species of horn coral, and I absolutely love your videos. However, I am a novice, and I am a bit confused about the last stage of tumbling Petoskey stones, because in your video, you switch to a vibrator to finish polishing. My question is.... can I just use my tumbler instead?? Thanks and hope to hear from you😊
I haven't tried that method in a rotary tumbler, so I don't know.
I would enjoy meeting a Madascar rock polisher some day eh?
Are they really good at polishing rocks in Madagascar?
Seems that there is a lot of polished rocks that are shipped out of Madagascar on ebay in the past. I've gotten some reasonably priced pieces in the past.
@@thomasschultz7339 That's true. I have seen lots of great rocks come from there. Ocean jasper being the best.
I wish I had the chance to do the same.
9:18 is a good one eh?
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Thanks a lot for sharing - I wish I could just teleport there to join in the fun 😊
Beautiful rocks
How long did it take to tumble & polish that jasper to end up like this? It's really gorgeous
I rushed that one a bit. I roughed it in on the cab machine, which probably took a little over half an hour, then I tumbled it for six days in my Lot-O tumbler. Usually I spend seven days tumbling, but I wanted to get my video out, so I needed it to be done a day earlier.
Win lottery >>> Move to Michigan >>> Hunt rocks for the rest of my life
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Sounds like a good, but unlikely plan. Good luck!
Is there a chance you’d be willing to caption the finds in the edit at all? (Found a few just like 8:02 but can’t quite catch the name mentioned and google guesses are way off hah) but even moving forward, it’d be so helpful for beginners like me!!!
These videos take me many hours to edit as it is, so unfortunately I don't have time to caption them too. There was a really nice lady who was doing closed captions for all of my videos but she has small children and just started a job that takes up more of her time, so I haven't been asking her to do them lately.
I don't know what the rock at 8:02 is, but it might have been variolite.
Ok. Hello. I want to go rock hunting in the area where you go. I am visiting Grand Rapids. My husband and I want to go north and go to the Wisconsin side. Do you have a map that could show me good places to go? I love the fossils that you and Kyle found. Any help would be greatful. Ty
I don't know anything about hunting rocks in Wisconsin. My videos are mostly in Michigan, and a couple were filmed in Minnesota. Here's a map that shows a bunch of beaches. It's not my map, but I think it's a good one to get some ideas from. www.michiganrockhounds.com/map\
Kyle and I hunt fossils around Alpena, Michigan. Kyle's most recent video with me (and my video tomorrow) was filmed at Rockport, just north of Alpena. Partridge Point just south of town is also good.
The holes are nuance don't you know eh?
Omar is a glacial whirlpool eh?
I'm not sure what you mean.
that looked more like petrified bone rather than wood.
I doubt it was that either. We have mostly marine fossils here.
What do you do with all your polished rocks?
I'm not sure it's a very good answer, but here's a video I made to answer that question: th-cam.com/video/jZ9Dns9ioX8/w-d-xo.html
@@MichiganRocks Thanks, I’m going to get my daughter a tumbler for Christmas. Hopefully it will become a treasured pastime for us.
What is the sander you use?
That's a Kingsley North Cabber 6. Here's my review of it and a couple links to it:
Cabber 6 with upgraded wheels (the one in this video):
kingsleynorth.com/kingsley-north-cabber-6-nova.html?ref=robertabram1& (affiliate link)
Standard Cabber 6:
kingsleynorth.com/kingsley-north-cabber-6.html?ref=robertabram1& (affiliate link)
21:33 Actually you threw one back that was better
You think so? I liked this the best of the jaspers I found.