well it's not snowing and it isn't windy it's raining a little bit and it's 40 degrees
out and i couldn't be happier because we get to go rockhounding today i'm on the north shore of
lake superior and this beach isn't frozen up it's not locked up with ice or snow i'm really excited
this spot has a lot of great stuff to be founded i found agates jasper porphyry lots of good stuff so
we're gonna find as much as we possibly can we're not gonna take it all home but i'm gonna show you
everything that we find today since it's been so long since we've been on rock county let's go
so i've been waiting in the lake for quite a ways and i just pulled this
out i believe it's jasper but it looks like definitely some on top but this is so orange
so orange and i gotta say even with waders and wool socks and everything the lake is freezing
found this really cool piece of quartz and chalcedony and then we got lucky i'm gonna regret
that that's so cold two pieces of mary ellen jasper oh so cold look at the swirls in there
beautiful beautiful
but i i'm just about to in the beach between the waves and the raindrops it's actually really hard
to see anything in the lake so we're going to hop up on the beach and go through all this material
so excited all right i see a couple say three interesting pieces here put that there
oh i thought that'd be cooler it's looking maybe agate in host rock but this piece of jasper
really really beautiful and then i thought that might be like a agate nodule and host rock in it
just spotted a couple it gets this one's super worn it's probably more
kills sydney i'm not gonna keep that one this little guy got some little bands
little little thing and right here it's a piece of red oolitic jasper that's pretty
just spotted some perfury buried on the beach right here
that is really pretty love those crystals in that that is nice
so here's a funky piece i haven't grabbed it yet
but it looks like it has some agate details going on like a little bit of a vein
well that's really pretty it's like it's just on the top there
i like that that's really cool
maybe it's just quartz i don't know it's pretty sweet though so i found these guys it's the agate
vein running through this host rock and then this funky little piece spotted up here porphyry
and
whatever this is i just thought that looked kind of cool it's like a little chip
a lot of agent and host rock in this material keep finding stuff that has
little agate bits with the host hopefully we can find some agates without the host
well we're getting closer in the agate department
it looks that's really unique it's like a
nodule beach worn broken up host in the middle and then another little pocket on top
that's super unique i'm actually really excited about that that's so cool
i like that right there sweet a couple steps later and right there
looks like another it gets that form on this beach they look similar to this they're kind
of funky i have found that traditional like superior agates with the bands and stuff but
i find a lot of it like this it's really really interesting
all right got a piece of pork free right here that's pretty cool
and then i spotted something else over here
very interesting right here
that is pretty dark in the quartz
potentially amethyst i'm not gonna say it is because it's so faded but
that's still pretty cool i'll probably bring that one home and cut that in half oh look at this
little itty bitty bands right above my thumb there yeah lots of that cool stuff
oh that's really green i believe this is unakite
i believe i may be wrong that is really really pretty those veins sweet i like that
all righty so we found some pretty interesting stuff there got this funky little bit
also looks like almost seam it's really pretty i'm gonna keep that one that's cool piece of porphyry
a couple pieces of jasper
this one's really nice
then this guy i'm gonna bring this one home it's got a big old agate pocket in there this is
what i think would be considered a beach horn thunder egg agate because it's got that whole
agate in the host rock it's just been really beach worm but it's really cool really really cool
and then this guy this big guy i'm not sure what the minerals are definitely quartz but this stuff
right here is very porous it's like i can feel it on my fingers but you can see the quartz in there
it's that's a pretty cool piece i'm not going to bring that just because it's alright it's like you
could see it on my fingers there among the wool from my coat but finding some pretty cool stuff
well we had some pretty good luck on this rock counting adventure and i'm really thankful you
all got to join me what you're seeing right now is a clip of rocks falling from a thawing beach
and if you want to see a longer version of that
check out the video i have linked in my description box thanks for watching bye