Agate Hunting at Calumet Waterworks Park
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- Sam and I walked for two or three miles at Calumet Waterworks Park in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula in search of the elusive Lake Superior agate. We found a few too!
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Thank you for including us in your video we feel so honored
Calumet is one of our favorite rock spot.
Hey Henry! I was glad to be able to show you and your rocks. It was fun meeting you.
I could watch these Lake Superior hunts for hour. Really nice finds !
Sam making a friend was hilarious didn’t expect to see him playing with a cat.
I didn't expect that either. It was a nice little moment.
Love your channel. Seems like colors have been "off" in your videos this year. Kind of grayish/reddish. Not as colorful. Did you get a new camera?
Could it be a lot of cloud cover? It’s been raining like crazy in Minnesota in the past few months and I imagine that the same clouds head over Michigan skies where they’re hunting for agates…
Nope, I use a GoPro for a lot of shots, but for very small rocks I use my iPhone. I did use a new app for this trip that was sort of a disaster. I don't know why, but none of the iPhone clips from this whole trip had sound. Fortunately I also use my GoPro to capture sound when using my iPhone because it sounds better in wind. Anyhow, maybe that was part of the problem. Needless to say, I'm going back to my old app.
As Rachel said, it was a really cloudy that day, so that might have been part of the problem too. Thanks for letting me know that you've noticed a difference. I'll keep an eye on it.
Could be my phone screen too. Whatever you've been doing all along, don't change!
Amazing video!! Thanks for sharing!!
Great rocks guys,love the nodules.
I’m so jealous right now of you guys wearing jackets!!!! It’s so freakin hot and humid here in Eastern Oklahoma this week!!! Ugh!!!
This happened a few weeks ago. However, today my wife complained that it could have been a little warmer out. I was working in the yard and was really happy with the temperature for working outside.
Another great adventure on the beach finding agates. Thanks for sharing.
Do you sell any of the rocks you polish? I'd live to have a piece of Michigan since relocating.
I don't sell polished rocks anywhere, but I do sell a few things at a local shop. I sell stone crosses, little turtles, guitar picks, beads that fit Pandora bracelets, heart shaped pendants, other pendants, and Christmas ornaments at that time of year. They don't have an online store, but will work with you if you call or email. olivetbookandgift.com
One of my favorite places!
Awe Sam made a furry friend ! I was just going ask about the water temp but you answered it Brrrr! That's beautiful there! We're RVing all over the US and so far UP lake superior is my favorite place. I found a rock with a tiny dot of copper up by Union River last summer. I now feel confident that it's copper after you showed yours. Love all your agates finds . If you doubt mind me asking, What is the difference between epidote and unikite? Thank you so much for another wonderful video.
That's a geology question that I think I can answer. Epidote is a mineral. Unakite is a rock made partially of epidote. It also includes feldspar and sometimes quartz. Epidote is green. Unakite is green and either red, orange, or pink.
Nuttin' like the U.P. eh! That lil one Sam found looks like it has a heart inside~ That kid is still the Agate Magnet!
There was a guy that went diving and found an 8 pound agate. He sold it for thousands.
I was just out hunting with someone who dives for agates. Sounds like fun.
Old Disabled House Bound Dusty Rusty Rockhound here: Beautiful beach!
love it! No agates on our beach but occasionally we'll find a tiny shark tooth😇
No shark teeth on our beach, and no sharks or salt in the water either!
Always find your channel so informative and interesting and just plain fun, no matter what you find! Thanks! Joy S from Northern Indiana
Good rock hunting trip. Like your eye agate. Hello to Sam. Always good to see him.
That second omar you found would’ve made a perfect candle holder!
Yes, I guess so.
Wow that eyes agate was so cool. I have never seen one before. I cannot for the life of me remember all the names of rocks.
Just when I thought your videos couldn't get any better, a cat shows up! Thank you for bringing us along.
It didn't even seem to be afraid of the water. That changed a couple minutes later when I tossed it in. (Just kidding.)
I very much enjoyed this video! I'm always down to go rockhounding with you and Sam!
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Really nice hunt. Beautiful rocks and the cat❤👋🇫🇮
Nice strippy cat. Surprised you didn't pick it up to check it out closer. 🙂
Ha ha! That's funny.
Oh my goodness, that rootbeer agate was beautiful.
I recognize every big rock, house, and creek in that video. Oh, those omars... 😊
That was only my second time there. Nice spot.
Cats and rocks. Wonderful.
I see from your avatar that you are a cat. Are you the cat from the video?
@@MichiganRocks I am not. I'm here in Ohio.
@@lisk3822 Oh, ok.
Fun times on the lake! Great rocks.
Thanks for the walk.
Nice hunt, very relaxing video👍👍
Where'd you stash those agates, for the "stone stash"?
I kind of forgot about doing a stone stash for the past few videos.
First!
Love watching both of you as you look & retrieve stones from the water. My days of rockhounding ceased quite a number of years ago due to a mobility/disability issue with my right foot/ankle. Unable to drive. A Real bummer!
That has to be tough being stuck inside when you love being outside. I'm glad I can at least give you a peek at the beach once in awhile.
@@MichiganRocks Thanks. I manage, thru friends, to get to two rock & gem clubs that we all belong to here in CT. That way I can also see friends, some of whom get out to mineral hunt in CT & other New England states, or beyond. Two of the clubs co-pay a digging fee for a quarry area on private property in eastern NY for Herkimer "Diamond" Quartz. Paying members of each club have digging rights to a section of the dolomite quarry. The property covers several acres.
@@joane.landers9151 I'm glad to hear that you're able to still get together with other rockhounds.
That eye agate is wonderful!
You guys really pick up some gems! I really like the omars! Those are cool!!
Very calm and relaxed tour, thank`s.
I enjoy your videos so much! I seriously never knew what we were looking at before but now I see all the different colors you find and have something to strive for! Thank you!
You're welcome! I'm glad you're enjoying the videos.
I was wondering if you have ever tumbled serpentine we have alot of it here in Pennsylvania and I have tried to tumble it but I haven't been able to get it to a good polish. I could send you some if you want to try it or maybe you already have. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Not that I know of. I'm a little overstocked with rocks right now, so I don't want you to send me any. I'm not sure what to suggest. Are you having luck with other rocks?
@@MichiganRocks yes I have been having success with other rocks and you channel helped me out alot as a first time rock tumbler and I definitely understand now why you leave so many behind lol...
@@michaelkinney6082 Just keep experimenting with them. I'd also suggest going to the Rock Tumbling Hobby forums and doing a search there. If you don't find what you're looking for, just post a question and somebody might be able to help you out.
Someone told me it’s illegal to collect rocks. I walked away. I didn’t feel like arguing.
It is also illegal to pick up driftwood
It is illegal to remove anything from National Parks, so whatever you collect you have to leave for the next visitor to find.
@joeljeffery8704 It's illegal to pick up driftwood on Great Lakes beaches? Do you mean on National Lakeshores, or just anywhere? I have never heard that and I can't imagine why it would be illegal. Maybe you were just kidding, sometimes it's hard to tell from just text.
We got prehnite here in NJ deposited in Watchung basalt hydrothermal layers
That was my mother's favorite spot to hunt agates.
I think she picked them all up!
The cat and I would be looking for rocks together all day. I bet it knows all the secret spots.
I think the cat was a homebody.
Liking this wholesome moment . That cat is so friendly. ❤
Finding stones is very interesting, my dear friend. 9:08
Well those rocks were gorgeous 😊😊
Watching the video at 3:15 am. Can’t sleep and a huge thunderstorm is expected to arrive shortly. Your videos are always so relaxing. ❤️
Huge thunderstorm? I wouldn't be able to sleep either, thinking about how that will mix up the rocks on the beach for another hunt!
@@MichiganRocks Exactly Rob!!!!! 🤗❤️👍🙋🏻♀️
Love watching your weekly rock hunts, thank you for posting! I addition to your weekly rock hunts maybe at the end of each rock hunt video you could add a short clip of what you finished polishing this week? I would love to see (and I am sure many others would also) what rocks got the final polish for the week.
I used to do weekly videos just showing a box of rocks that I had polished. They were not super popular, so I started making TH-cam Shorts as my second video of the week instead. I do have some finished Michigan rocks that I need to get pictures of and make a couple of those videos with before and after pictures.
Your idea of putting my weekly tumbles at the end of a beach video is interesting, but I'm not sure it's a good idea. For one thing, the rocks at the end wouldn't be related to the rocks from the beach. Also, I think that the people who watch beach videos may not be the same people who watch tumbling videos. For those reasons, I think it's probably better to keep them separate.
If you want to see my tumbled rocks from last summer, pray for rainy weather. That will get me down to the basement for a few hours to take pictures. Otherwise, I have a hard time pulling myself inside during our short summers.
I'd have a rock garden with those stones with the hole in them, with some of the red and orange stone rocks worked in. That would really be pretty around a patio. Thanks for sharing your videos, really enjoy you, Sam and your wife collecting rocks. Wish I was able to do it God Bless
That would look nice.
Классный канал. Главным образом показывает нам что иногда реальные сокровища лежат просто под ногами.❤
Однажды мне пришлось попросить Сэма переместить ногу, чтобы я мог поднять агат, находившийся под ней. После этого он еще некоторое время дулся!
Calumet Waterworks is in my top three favorite UP beaches! I love that big conglomerate with the Rhyolite matrix!
Please stop giving away spots by name.
I Love Your Videos!! Nothing Else!! I hope you and Nancy, along with Sam and his other, have a Wonderful July 4th!! 🎊⚡️⭐️✨🪅🎈💫🎉🌟💥☄️
Thanks, Kim!
Wow lots of cool green rocks there!
Love the copper, Rob!
Hi Rob, Thank you so much for posting your informative videos on rockhounding! My wife and I love watching them and learning. We recently returned from a quick trip to Ely, Minnesota driving from Cleveland, Ohio. Rock hunting stops in the UP along the way. We stayed two nights in Copper Harbor and explored (rock hunted) in the area. We did spend a few hours in Calumet Water Works Park and found some nice rocks! I did find a few tiny agates about the size of a thumbnail and was thrilled. My wife found a few also. Chatting with other people looking for agates they all seemed to say the same thing “we aren’t really sure what to look for and aren’t sure if we found one”. Your videos are a big help with that! We love how Sam is so good at finding them and identifying. We watched all your Keweenaw videos after returning home and are ready for another trip up there sometime. The ones with the geologists we really informative! We both brought back about a five gallon pail of rocks from our adventure and look at them more carefully with a loupe at home. We will tumble some too. The most fascinating for me right now are the ones with copper in them from the piles at the mines. Lots of crystalline pockets in them too! Thanks again for your videos and look forward to the next one.
We are in the process of tumbling some of Sam's copper finds, and the results are looking really promising. There will be a video one of these days.
Do you guys have a shop/store/website for any of these (or other) rocks in final/finished form? I'm a newer sub, and don't believe that I've seen you reference anything about buying your products. Thx in advance.
I don't sell polished rocks anywhere, but I do sell a few things at a local shop. I sell stone crosses, little turtles, guitar picks, beads that fit Pandora bracelets, heart shaped pendants, other pendants, and Christmas ornaments at that time of year. They don't have an online store, but will work with you if you call or email. olivetbookandgift.com
My correction it was hawks bluff and it's mostly unpicked with crazy amounts of crazy lace agate
Thanks, I'll look that up.
A spot with pretty rocks. Your eye agate is so pretty and the rock with rock spots was my kind of rock. And the copper one, I’m hoping when I’m able to rockhound that I’ll find copper.
Copper is pretty rare on the beaches, but it's easy to find in mine tailings piles.
I understand that I came out 600 behind but I'm not making videos but I do enjoy watching your videos and hoping someday in the near future of heading up your way to hunt stone and fossil. Happy hunting stay safe enjoy the fresh air and may the rock gods bless you with great finds
Good luck with the fossil hunt. If by "coming up your way" you mean to the Alpena area, I'd suggest Rockport and Partridge Point Park as great places to find fossils.
Awesome. That looks like a great beach. We are trying to make a weekend trip to a beach soon. My daughter got a tumbler for her birthday. We are on stage two with the supplied rocks and a few others from the farm.
Cheers from the 920 of Wisconsin
Good luck with your first tumble!
About a third of the rocks I brought back from my recent trip there were green. I loved the incredible variety available. Some for specimens, others to tumble and a few to shape and polish. So far, I only found copper specks on one stone.
Sam and I went to the Central Mine the morning of this hunt and found quite a bit of copper there. The copper I found in this video was the only beach rock either of us found with copper in it, though.
Neat eye agate. Hey Rob, I think you are winning!
Nah, Sam found way more than me as usual.
Like the 2nd Omar!!
👁👁 Always a pleasure 9:07
The second omar you picked was interesting. The hole looked like the right size to put a tea light in it.
I don't think it was quite that big, but you could always melt wax into a hole of any size.
Hey there Rob I'm a a true die hard Michigander and I am currently in Missouri at hawks ridge which is a few miles away from haunted ridge and in my opinion I really think you need to take a trip here to hunt rocks. You can even camp and have pets here it's over 400 acres of rock hounding bliss and the owner is an amazing person . Please comment on this message so I know you got it and have a great rock hounding day sincerely Mark
Hawks bluff
Hi Mark. I watched a video from Dustin Finds Rocks last year about that place (th-cam.com/video/m7AOMhSx13Y/w-d-xo.html) . Looks like fun.
I took two big trips last year to make videos. I was hoping to be able to do that once in awhile and pay for the trips with my videos. The first one was last May to Montana and I came out a couple hundred dollars ahead after about ten days on the road. I had a ball and basically breaking even was completely acceptable. Tehn I went to Tennessee/Georgia/North Carolina in January. I stayed at a friend's house the whole time except for one night, but even with free housing, I came out a couple hundred dollars behind on the trip. My videos from out of Michigan just haven't been very popular. I'd be fine with spending a little money, except that I make these trips without my wife and feel kind of guilty about leaving her home alone the whole time I'm gone.
I'm not ruling out more trips, but after trying it out, I'm a little more hesitant about it. Thanks for suggesting Haunted Ridge. It's already on my list of possibilities.
What are the bright green rocks? The color is striking. Nice hunt!
Many of those were prehnite.
Thanks for another delightful rock hunt. Though I know you probably already have more rocks than you have time to tumble, I'm surprised (and slightly disappointed) that you tossed back so many potentially beautiful (non-agate) finds as you frequently do on these excursions. So I'm curious and would appreciate hearing about how you consider your catch or release choices. If you've already shared such, please point me there as I haven't yet quite managed to go through your entire video catalog.
I get a lot of comments about how many I throw back. I still have a couple stubborn rocks tumbling from last summer's finds. I have also been on a couple trips over the winter and have purchased some rocks lately, so I'm really overstocked on tumbling material. As I have collected more rocks over the years, I have become more selective about what I bring home, but this year I'm really trying to limit what I bring home so I can get caught up on the backlog.
@@MichiganRocks Thanks for replying; I'm amazed you take the time and so hesitate to intrude. I was pretty sure I understood the why as I've always collected more than is practically usable. How your thought process compares to mine regarding what to keep is what I wonder about. I suspect it's quite similar in taking into account what you already have, how different or spectacular you envision the polished result might be, what uses you might put it to, who might want it, and the like. It's if you have some particular and or peculiar criteria that I'm most curious about.
@@colesonafrank5329 I think you said it pretty well. Some rocks are more interesting to me, some look like they'll tumbler better than others, some I'm sort of bored with after having tumbled enough, etc. Sometimes I look for specific rocks to make things out of. I make a lot of Christmas ornaments, so red, white and green rocks are useful if they're solid looking and are big enough to slab.
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Nice agate, Sam!
Nice couple!
Awesome hunt you guys! Some really cool finds!
You’re such a ‘rock star’ even the animals say Hi, love it! The stones with the ‘rock pox’ (great term by the way 😂) I call toad stones in my neck of the woods. Anyway, still hoping to get out myself but the weather’s been horrible. Have you yourself a great Father’s Day!!!
Toad stone is a good name too.
Great finds.
Can you imagine trying to get away with using cars and tires for a break-wall around this area now, I think they might tar and feather a person for that and run them out of town on a rail. People do what they gotta do, so I'm not going to say they were idiots for doing it, it is what it is and in a way it's kind of cool, just weird seeing it considering how conscious everyone is now days.
I had the same thoughts. People didn't used to revere lakefront property like they do now. I guess they did the trick because the house was still at the top of the bank.
@@MichiganRocks The ones that bug me are the ones that move in and remove every tree and native brush and try to grow grass all the way to the lake and then when they get erosion they put in steal break-walls. I'd rather walk along and see some old cars than not be able to walk the beach at all, like in some areas. Glad to know it worked for them.
@@smithdog4770 I couldn't agree more. It's the same in the woods. Sometimes I'll be driving along a nicely wooded area and come across a house with every single tree in their rectangular lot removed. Why do people like that buy in the woods in the first place? Seems like it would be easier to buy a lot where there were no trees to begin with.
@@MichiganRocks My parent's house in on Sunken Lake, people bought a house just down from them with the most beautiful white pine on it, the nicest tree on the lake, bigger around than the ones in Besser area even, so it had to be virgin. Yep, first thing they did was cut it down along with every other tree on the property. I literally cried, grown man who's been to war twice, and I cried over a tree. If I'd have known they were going to do that I'd have found a way to buy the place myself. They had the place two years and sold it, she didn't like being away from the city.
@@smithdog4770 You have to wonder why people from the city move to the boonies if they're just going to try to turn it into the city. I can understand why you'd cry over a tree like that.
Love the copper...cool!
We were up there for a few days and I was starting to think I wasn't going to find any on the beach.
what is an omar rock
Omar is short for Omarolluk. They come from Canada. A softer mineral has weathered out of them, leaving a fairly spherical hole. Since the source is in a specific place in Canada, geologists use them to track where glaciers went. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omarolluk
Love the lime green ones and the black and green! 💚💚
Awesome video! T 6:20 the way the water breaks behind the rock you were showing was really cool looking! So was the rock but, the water stole the show at that moment. Thanks for sharing!!
It really is about more than just the rocks. The whole beach is part of the experience.
I concur! I am wanting to move to TN but, from your videos....MI may have its hat in the ring!! lol
Enjoy your father's day weekend!
Thanks!
Fun video. I can’t seem to get to the Keeweenaw in conditions like that. Superior has been angry when I’ve been there.
It was windy most of the time we were there. Fortunately, it's a peninsula, so we chose the leeward side of the Peninsula. The wind was blowing in opposite directions from one day to the next, so we were able to get to beaches on both sides.
Tumble that rock Sam 🪨 I think it will very cool.