im about to do something pretty silly and this big rock i'm gonna bring it home because
look at this that's a piece of thomsonite
oh that is a beautiful feeling oh that's sweet hey what's up everybody welcome back for another
video i'm out here on this snowy day doing some beachcombing up on the north shore of minnesota
on big old lake superior and i'm really excited because we just found some really cool thomsonite
on this beach i haven't seen anybody else's footprints so it's totally unpicked
and we're gonna be going to another beach after this one so make sure you stick around so the
waves are going pretty good today so i don't have my waders on so hopefully we can find some
good stuff along here but i do have scoopy so he's gonna help me get oh my gosh snowflake in the eye
but i do have scoopy with today so if we do see anything in the water we can grab it come on buddy
we got some jasper here check this out oh yeah red oolitic jasper oh yeah
so i found a few pieces of beach worn agates and
chalcedony but right here is a nice chunk of porphyry toss this is in my pocket check this out
sorry scoopy
oh that is so pretty
that is really nice i'm going to put that in the bag
bring that one home that's really pretty beautiful inclusions got a few more chunks of
beech worn agates this really pretty piece of chalcedony
but right down there i got this it looks like basalt but the possible agate in there
oh yeah nice little nodule that's pretty
we've got ourselves another piece of chalcedony here and then right down here is
very beach worn agates
all right so i think i've spotted some jasper here i've done this about 10
times and i ended up not being anything but let's see if this one is anything
oh yes that is hard to tell because of the glare
that's a really beach worn mary ellen jasper it's got swirls and patterns in there
oh that is pretty i know it's kind of hard to tell this looks like a nothing rock but
take my word for it mary ellen jasper it's a really old fossil
so cool so we scoured that beach pretty good but because the wave activity was a little bit bigger
it's harder to find stuff because i went to scoop a lot of stuff and the waves would just
take it away from me so we're gonna head to another beach and see if we
can find one with a little less wave activity hopefully find some more good stuff let's go
so as we're heading to the next spot i wanted to just quickly talk about
you know beach raw counting and why i haven't been doing it as much on our channel
so through the summer months there's a lot of people that come up north
to the north shore all the beaches to get their rock hunting in with a nice warm weather and when
that happens i head to the rivers in the creeks in the into the woods because most the beaches that
i go to whenever i've tried i get skunked because they're over picked but that's fine because people
are enjoying their rockhounding adventures and everybody's finding their own goodies so but now
that it's winter and a lot of people don't enjoy winter and being out and freezing like i do i'll
be heading back to a lot more beaches throughout the winter months so if you're new to my channel
do me a huge favor hit that subscribe button so you guys can join us on all of our winter
rockhounding adventures i love it up here and it's snowing today and i love winter so this is
this is an absolute blast for me i hope you guys are enjoying it but let's head to the next spot
so we've made it to the second spot and we had to drive about 50 miles south of the first spot
and i believe the snow was moving north so as you can see the sun is starting to peek out
so hopefully we can find some good stuff here and this is actually a spot i haven't even shown in
any video yet so this will be a first for you guys to see this and as you can see i'm not the first
one here today but we'll check it out looks like half the beach is uh snowy half is thawed but yeah
let's see what we can find got our first find right here it's like a little nodule
that's funny looking all right so i haven't found a whole lot but i'm about
to do something pretty silly and uh this big rock i'm gonna bring it home because
right there oh my gosh look at that
this is gonna be fun
oh sorry it's a lake superior agate geode in host rock yeah i'm gonna bring this whole thing home
get out of here let me get some water on that at least for the bands oh my gosh
is there more i don't see any more on there get out of here oh my gosh
oh it's gonna be a fun time carrying that out anyway um yeah i guess i'll keep looking around
a little bit and then we'll carry that home all right so i'm not finding anything else
which is fine because i'm pretty pumped about that big geo that i just found so i'm gonna
haul that back to the car and yeah it's probably gonna take a little while so i'm kind of cutting
it a bit short out here but i wanna safely get that thing out of here so let's grab it
i've made it from that tree here you're worth it look at the size of that oh it's crazy
this is so big all right we'll get her we'll get her oh boy
we're halfway i've been put on my shoulder so it's not so bad but
it's that dead weight it's totally worth it it just sucks right now all right next time you
see me i'll be at the car all right so we got it back we got it in the car and we're gonna get back
to the house and show you everything we found today including that awesome agate geode is so
cool we made it back home and i got everything down here including that really big hose truck
with the egg it in there and i put it on the scale and i was thinking it was gonna be about 80 pounds
and it was a grand total of a hundred and six point eight pounds of host rock with that geode
in it and i don't know why i do this to myself because over the summer i actually found 120
some pound stromatolite fossil that i brought home to so it's my second hundred plus pound rock
that i brought home so yeah anyways let's take a peek at everything we found so here's
some of the smaller stuff we get really nice red oolitic jasper that'll be a fun one to work this
that i think is really pretty and it's almost like the feldspar crystals and
they're a bit faded so this will be a really good one to cut and see what's going on inside
i love this agate nodule and the basalt some other little not the most high quality agates this nice
thomsonite i think that'll be a fun one to maybe we'll try to do a little polish on that down the
road and then i thought this was stromatolite i don't know maybe had a little bit of a brain
freeze or what but i don't think this is thisis a stromatolite at all this is just a junk rock
but uh anyway let's look at the uh the really big host rock so here it is 106 pounds i cannot
believe i brought this whole thing home just for this as far as agate size goes that's pretty good
um i looked this whole thing over i think back here it's right there there's a little nodule
stuck in there so we're gonna do something really fun with this in the future so i
actually went out to the store this morning and i bought some tools i bought a chisel
and a chisel hammer went over to harbor freight picked these up for really cheap and we are going
to go to town and break this thing apart and hopefully we find some more agates along the way
but i'm going to work this thing down to try to chisel this agate out of here
or i'm not completely sure yet i might try as it gets down further cut out a piece of it
for a display piece so that it is still naturally in the host i'm just not sure yet i don't know if
i want to have a display piece with the host to keep it more natural or if i want to try to chisel
this whole thing out this is so cool getting to find a geode of this size still on the host rock
i know some of you are probably going to think not worth it to bring this whole thing home
just for that but i think it's really cool well that's everything i got for this video
thank you guys so much for watching again let me know if we should chisel it out make
a display piece or if you have any other ideas let me know i'd love to hear what you guys think
thanks for watching please leave a thumbs up i had to carry that 100 plus pound stone
very far away to get it home here it was really fun we'll see you next time bye