you guys man right there
hey what's up everybody it's taylor welcome back for another video today i'm on the north
shore of minnesota in a creek we're gonna do some creek rock counting hopefully we can
have some luck i have been in this creek before but further downstream so this is all new to me
hopefully we can have some luck going upstream let's see what we can find today
check this out right here it's a beautiful fossil looks like
coral that is really cool wow sweet so i just found this omar which is pretty cool
pretty good pocket there and right by this game trail you can see the deer tracks right there
right there it's like a nodule
hard to tell because it's so dark in here looks like it's got an eye maybe has some more
that's that's pretty cool first agate of the day that's exciting
look we found ourselves another agate right there
nice it's got a little bit of banding going on there
cool it's like half an eye kind of sweet
just about stepped on this one that's for my my shoe right there
get a wet here
see how it's glowing let's get some looks like just chalcedony i don't see any bands
maybe when we clean it up we'll find some but sweet
you guys man right there oh my gosh i'm speechless it it's 100 percent one you can just kind of tell
and you know it's funny it's like i'm out in this absolutely beautiful creek i didn't
plan to come here today i actually planned to go doing a um underwater
rock hunting adventure i went to the lake lake superior hopped in it was so cold i was in
there for 30 seconds and my hands my arms my legs everything was on fire i'm like i can't do it it's
not it's not safe you know hypothermia is a real serious issue with lake superior couldn't do it so
now it's kind of like now i know why i didn't work there i was supposed to come here
and find this thing let me let's grab it we'll get it cleaned off as best we can
it's really dirty but we'll get cleaned up we'll find some moss or some over here
look at this thing
dirty i'm gonna backtrack don't worry
oh the bands oh the bands
oh boy okay i'm gonna set you up here i'm gonna grab some awesome we'll clean it
all right this here
with the moss it's a moss right here
i got some i got some moss we'll get this thing a little little bit of a rinse
check this out
oh my gosh limonite bands
we'll get this thing cleaned up at the end so stick around for that
oh so happy i came to this creek
wasn't planned how lucky oh my gosh let's keep going all right i think i found some
courts here i moved this rock just a little bit awkward oh yeah pretty quick
it almost looks like seam agate or maybe just some banding in the courts
that's really pretty we'll bring that one home get that cleaned up too that's
really cool so one of the other things that i look for in these creeks that show that it's
a good indicator is finding basalt so like this guy right here let me get in the light
this guy right here so it looks like vesicular maybe almost looks like it's got some zeolites
in there but finding stuff like this through there is a really good indicator that there are agates
and other minerals too so yeah be on the lookout for this so i'm gonna start heading back because
the creek bed started turning into more of like swamp and really hard to see a lot of sediment
on the rocks so i'm going to hit up some of the spots that i saw on the way back for like
higher creek banks like right here there's this one but back there you can see it
there's another kind of hidden creek bank so i'm gonna hit up a few of those on the way back
see we can find all right so i found i'm not even sure what this is but the indentation
is throwing me off a little bit so i'm just gonna get cleaned up see what it looks like
and then i found some jasper and oh man oh no oh there it is it's so small i can only find it
the world's smallest nodule how cute and then right there i was thinking it was an agate but
seeing the fractures and stuff it might just be flint
i don't see any bands we'll bring it back and look at it anyway but kind of looks like flint
trying to navigate through these sometimes is a little difficult oh my backpack always gets caught
just found some jasper here getting my light
there and then right there little guy just a little one all right so
i'm back to the point where i started i'm going to head back to that house we'll get
that really nice one we found cleaned up and we'll show you all those bands on it
say do you have the time
all right we're back from the creek i've had everything soaking in my vinegar soap and water
uh concoction for the last few days except for this little fossil that i'll show you here in a
second i don't think a lot of that stuff had creek scum on it except for that big one so i'm going
to clean that right now so we can show you those bands yeah that fossil pretty sure coral very cool
did not soak that in vinegar i did that once and there was not really a whole lot of fossil left so
let's get to cleaning this bad boy i'm so excited so i'm gonna give
this thing a scrub for a little while and then we'll show you how it looks
all right so i cleaned that thing as best as i could i tried a few different brushes this
one was just too soft this one which i thought would be good to get in the cracks and stuff
actually left a metallic residue on that agate so i stopped doing that i had to scrub that out
and everything so don't use these ever and then this one is the one that i've used in the past
i have a few of these laying around pretty pretty stiff not bad this is the way to go
it's also got this end on it so let me show you this thing
i think i could still use a little more scrubbing got a lot of that black creeks come off except for
like right here it's kind of hard to get at there's a lot of really cool beautiful
lima knights standing on here it's kind of wild looking but look at that how beautiful is that
i know i'm probably gonna get a lot of suggestions on what to do with this thing
it's just so wild and unique i think i might just leave it and just let it sit like that
you know it's just you know sometimes with these agate you cut them you kind
of regret doing anything to them i think i would regret it if i did anything to this
so i'm just going to leave this one as is it's really beautiful really really cool then the
the limonite staining is just so prominent on this it's really cool i don't mind it
looks kind of ancient you know really cool alright so i'm gonna head out take some pictures of these
bad boys yeah so stick around for the slideshow all right so i had a lot of fun on that adventure
kind of a twist with wanting to underwater rock counting adventure and avoiding hypothermia and
being able to go to that creek and i think it worked out for the best because we found some
really awesome stuff thank you guys so much for tagging along thanks for all the support that you
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