Hey everyone! Today I'm at the Point Betsie Lighthouse near Frankfort, Michigan. This
is Lake Michigan and as I usually do on beaches I'm going to look for some rocks. Apparently
someone misjudged the movement of sand on this beach, because that bench seems a little
bit low. In that direction is the Sleeping Bear Dunes and that's a National Lakeshore,
so you can't pick rocks there. So I'm heading in the other direction and you can see the
beach here is pretty sandy, but in the water are the rocks, so that's where I'll be. Saw
a big chunk of unakite. Oops! One of the things I'm looking for is a slag glass from iron
smelting a long time ago in the 1800s. They call it Frankfort Green here. So if you're
about an hour from here in Leland they call it Leland Blue and then this is Frankfort
Green. I haven't found any yet, but I'm keeping my eyes open for it. That looks like white
quartz, but there's some real subtle banding in there. I can't say for sure, but there's
a thing called a cold water agate that forms in limestone which there's a lot of around
here. That might actually be one. I'm just looking at the bands and going by that. Cool!
I think that's granite, but wow, there's some cool colors in there. I don't think that will
tumble or else I'd bring it home. I spotted another green one here. I don't think that's
slags, so that's not the Frankfort Green, but that's a really pretty color of green,
in my opinion. I might throw that one in the tumbler. Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep,
beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. Huh. It's one of them there things. That's kind of an
interesting rock. That's kind of pretty. Just plucked this little guy out of the water.
Little puddingstone. That's the only red on it. There's a little tiny speck on it there.
Oops, I guess it's gone now. Well I'm pumped. I just found an obvious agate. Hopefully you
can see all the banding right there. This must be... I imagine it's a cold water agate,
I've never found one before. But it shouldn't a Lake Superior Agate because I'm in Lake
Michigan and Lake Michigan doesn't tend to have those. So anyhow, that's the find of
the year so far. No banding back here. That's cool! I just found this. I don't know if it's
just jasper or if it's banded iron formation because it does have a darker color here on
the end and this end is slightly darker. So I don't know. Oops, it just jumped into my
bucket. Get out of there! I'm not taking that one home. I'm spoiled now that I have found
agates. That's cool. There are little bandy type things in there. I don't think that one's
an agate, but it's still kind of neat. Come on, flip over. That's nice. Oop, forgot my
scooper. If you like green and white, that's nice. Here's another one that's at least somewhat
agate like. Not like that other one, but some little bands in there. Another interesting
piece of quartz. This one was buried out in the water. I dug 'er up. I don't know what
to call that other than that it appears to be some sort of quartz again. Kind of a cool
one. Still no slag. No Frankfort Green. Not that I'm complaining, I found an agate. I'm
still pumped. I'm now searching for agates more than anything else. I probably won't
ever find one like that again, but I'm all excited about them now. So I keep picking
up all the light colored rocks. Couple of ducks. I just picked this up. It's kind of
interesting. I think it's Charlevoix stone or favosites. It doesn't look like much there,
and you can't really see the little honeycomb pattern on this side but you can see the sides
of it. I find Petoskey Stones that are real white and hard like this, not the normal limestone.
Never found one of these like this. Silicated, I believe it's called. I don't know what I'd
do with it so I'm going to leave it here. Throw it on beach, someone else maybe will
pick it up. Still kind of fun. That is stink stone, which apparently if you break it open
it's got an odor. I've never broken one open. Not breaking that one open either. Just grabbed
another piece of quartz that has a little bit of pink to it. Can you see it there, kind
of in the middle? A little bit back here too. Just picked this guy up. It's maybe chert.
But that tan with the little stripe there and then you've got the grayer stuff in the
middle is kind of different. I'm tempted to take it home and try to tumble it but That
tan part will just tumble off right away and then it will just be a gray rock so I think
I'll leave it here. I just spotted what I think is banded chert maybe. Oh yeah. Oh,
nice one! That's going in the tumbler. I think that brown is just rust on there, iron staining
but good bands. That'll be beautiful. Hmmm. That kind of looks like slag. It's not green.
Might just be chert. I don't see gas bubbles in it. Slag at least usually has gas bubbles.
I don't know what that is. I'm going to carry that with me and see if I meet anyone on the
beach that's from around here they might be able to tell me what it is. Interesting anyhow.
Maybe there's more. That's neat.This is interesting. Look at that notch. I don't know if that was
another branch rubbing there or what the deal is. I sure am picking up some strange things
today. You see the wavy little lines there? It's got little circles on the top. I think
what that might be, and this is a guess, but stromatoporoid. Because I found one similar
to this in Lake Huron once. That's my guess. Someone correct me. I just found another piece
of that same stuff just, I don't know, twenty steps down the beach. I think that's the same.
It's got the same little lines in there. Oops, kind of splashed me. I thought there was something
else I was going to pick up down there and... Wait, is that another one? Nope. That one's
different. Oh, there's the other one I was going to pick up. Oh, that's cool. It's brecciated
something or other, I think. Yeah, definitely. Look at this. I think it's a big piece of
horn coral. I don't know if you can see the stripes going up and down. Nothing much back
there, but I'm pretty sure that's horn coral. I just found a little tiny chain coral. I
just found another sort of agatey looking rock. That part on the top right there is
translucent. You can see my finger through it. There's not any obvious bands but it's
an interesting rock. Well this little walk has been full of surprises. I really thought
I'd be heading back with some Petoskey Stones and some of that Frankfort Green slag glass,
and instead, I'm walking home with an agate. Who would have thunk it? Anyhow, this morning
went to Leland where I did find Petoskey Stones and slag glass. So if you haven't seen that
video, it's linked over on the side there. Why don't you give that a click and I"ll see
you over there.