so i am up on the north shore of lake superior and i'm actually staying up here for a few days
at an airbnb to do some raw counting and exploring of some beautiful spots up here in the tofte area
and we actually got in a little late yesterday so after we got settled in
and explored around the property a little bit i headed down to a creek that is right next to the
property and i could not believe that i found this there you can see it blowing right there
oh my gosh it's for limonite stained lake superior agate oh my goodness
so i was pretty pumped about that but we're at a river right now
so let's see we can find looks like we got some jasper right here
let's go rinse that off in the river oh that is really really pretty
that's a really nice piece two pieces of porphyry sitting right next to each other
that is really really great
feldspar crystals in that porphyry looks like you got another piece of jasper right here
sweet
that is weird that is so strange look at the details right there
it's got some agatey goodness going on in there so we got a couple others here this looks like a
stromatolite very little and then a couple pieces of i don't see a whole lot of bands some
chalcedony but i'm having a lot of fun looking in these areas here where the water isn't flowing as
heavy makes it a lot easier to look through the water to see if we can find anything else
so i just plucked this baby out of the river and it's really really beautiful
looking it's got these greens and it's dark almost purpley patches
i'm thinking it's unikite but it's uh just really really strange formation really really beautiful
so i just found this guy right here which i'm definitely going to cut this one because it
almost looks like a possible moss agate it's not the prettiest of things but it'd be a fun cutter
and then this really orange limonite stained nodule and doesn't have any visible bands but it's
pretty cool and then i looked and right here it looks like
we got ourselves another piece of red oolitic jasper
sweet sweet
right here we got another egg sweet so i just pulled this piece out i thought it was
a limonite stained agate and i think it's more just yellow jasper but i'm to make my way back
to the vehicle so we can enter our next spot and we'll see if we find anything along the way
well not much on the walk back so let's head to the second spot
so i'm at the second spot and i've been walking around here for a little while and i did find
one agate so maybe not the best spot for finding agates but i
am finding a lot of signs for really big calcite formations that's pretty cool
but being that i'm not finding that many signs for lake superior agates i'm gonna
head to another spot so we're at the next spot and i got my little boy with me see what we can
find what do you think of this
you got some jasper right here it's got little quartz veins running through it
so i'm pretty excited i just found this little limonite stained moss agate and then this right
here is a stromatolite really old fossil like mary ellen jasper watch where you're tossing those bud
yeah so these are pretty cool and then right here on another
piece of porphyry sweet look at this right here by your foot you almost missed it
whoa it's a galaxy stone it's got a little amethyst crystal pockets in there
we're not throwing that one in the lake are we so i just found this host rock
and it's got these crystals in it that is pretty sweet
all right let's throw that rock
yeah nice
so
we are back at the airbnb and i wanted to mention that i get asked a lot about places
to stay for rockhounding up here on the north shore minnesota so if that is you i'm gonna
leave the link to this place in the description box below and this place is called the hygge home
it's in tofte minnesota and it is super cozy and i also have a guest book here that i have
put some rockhoudning locations in that are close to the area here so if you ever do stay here look
for the guest book well thank you all so much for watching we'll see you on the next adventure bye