Hey everyone, we're at Hoeft State Park just north of Rogers City
it's a beautiful spring day, and we're hoping to find a rock or two
(Nancy) well Rob's off getting his drone ready for flight for a few nice shots, and
he's given me control of the camera [laughs]
so, my goal is to find the best rock before he gets here, and then I won't tell him
about it, it'll be a little secret
until he edits the video
wish me luck
well sadly so far most of the rocks are looking a little bit on the small side
getting to a little bigger section here so I think things are going to perk up
a little bit
there's a lot of limestone, as expected but a few other interesting things mixed
in maybe
(waves crashing)
so rock #1
kind of interesting
once again one of those, I don't really know for sure what it is kind of rocks
it looks kind of chert-y
and it has some cool stripes
and
just to show there are a little colored rocks on the beach here we do have a
pretty colorful granite
so, not all grey stuff
well, we're going to call this the first official puddingstone sighting
okay, it's not a good puddingstone, I know that, but
at least, at least I found one
still got to find something better before Rob catches up with me
wish me luck
well, still not in the running for the best rock of the day yet, but
now we're going to go with a little puddingstone
does have a little piece of jasper just one
but I like it
and I just came across this pretty nice fossil
not sure how well it's going to show up for you guys
but definitely a coral - not a Petoskey stone really
not really Favosites
just something kind of similar
so as I've been looking over all the fossils here
kind of sticking with the theme and
another fossil one I came up with
now this whole area in the Rogers City area as well as Alpena
you know, has alot of limestone
a lot of fossils that were created during the Devonian time period
and other related
eras, oh wait a minute, what's this one
oh, thought I saw something cool, but it's just a piece of chert
chert's another pretty common rock around here, and it's generally pretty boring
unless we can find the banded chert, which is cool, but
that's not that
keep trying for you
found a couple kind of cool ones here, see if I can snag them both out of the
water
give them a little rinse
picked that up just because I happened to see it here, but that's just
kind of wasteful there
not wasteful, just kind of garbage rock, okay here's what I just snagged, so
this is a nice piece of fossil
little different type of matrix with the darker rock in there
and this one was also next to it
and the hunt continues
(waves lapping)
an example of the pretty small grained
rock material that's along in some of these places
we've been to this beach before and I don't remember it being quite like this, but
that's the thing about beaches, sometimes
you see them one time and you go back a month later, or the next year, and
they're quite different, but
there's some bigger rocks coming up next
see anything here that you think I should pick up?
hmmm
well, I'll look a little closer for you
uh oh, guess who's coming
Mr. Michigan Rocks is on his way
and I have not found
the most awesome rock of the day yet
like that was my plan
we'll see
the competition's on now
(Rob) Nancy just gave the camera back to me, so hopefully she's done a good
job with it
of course, what would you expect
(Rob) nothing but that
okay
(Rob) it's a nice calm day
but the water's not super clear like it usually is in the great lakes
I don't know if that's typical for this beach or if there was just a storm
or something's got it all stirred up
that caught my eye
lots of white and grey rocks here, so
other colors kind of stand out
looks like just a real thin layer
of that red, you can see some veins of red there too
I don't know what kind of rock that is though
saw another little puddingstone right here
(Nancy) that is small, I thought when you said puddingstone I was expecting something
bigger
(Rob) no, we're leaving all of these here for the campers, and then Nancy just
pointed out a
nice piece of green beach glass
maybe we'll take that for my sister
(Nancy) yeah, that'll be good for her art projects
it's a nice one
(Rob) yeah, that is a good one
(Nancy) came across a couple finds
this one
just kind of
very green, kind of stood out against all the other grey rocks, so I kind of
like that one
and
this one
right here
goes in the category of sad puddingstone
it's bigger
couple- now I've got sand on it, but couple spots, but
definitely not great, but again
it's good to see that we have some, maybe we'll find something better
(waves lapping)
(Nancy) so anyway, I just picked up this mudstone and just
I don't know, kind of a really neat shape
that's what kind of caught my attention about it
kind of looks like some of those windblown rocks out on a
lot of places, that's not the case here, but
just interesting shape
(Rob) I saw something kind of pink down here, there it is
looks kind of interesting
this cool board in the water here
I wouldn't be at all surprised if it's part of a shipwreck
if I can show it
maybe we'll just look at it like that
but I have found shipwreck boards before, you can tell sometimes they've got
holes drilled in them for like a
peg or something
pretty old and pretty cool looking, whatever it is
(Nancy) [distantly] bring it up on the beach a little farther
(Rob) I don't know if you heard Nancy, she just instructed me to bring it up on the
beach farther, it's really heavy though
(Nancy) what Nancy wants, Nancy should get
(Rob) are those
think those are drilled holes or knotholes they're kind of
well, they're equally spaced, see there's one there
one here, one here
one here
one there
I'd say that's definitely
(Nancy) and also on the other side
(Rob) oh yeah (Nancy) one there, and right here
(Rob) yup, yup
(Nancy) so yeah, I'd say that one's definitely
part of a shipwreck of some kind
(Rob) that is fun
(Rob) a few big rocks right here
once in a while all along here there's some big rocks, but
I really like
this one
it's pretty cool looking
no, Nancy, I'm not hauling this one out of the water so you can see it better
(Nancy) I don't want that
(waves lapping)
(Rob) this is a really pretty beach
there's some small sand dunes
some huge white pines back there in the woods
and some smaller ones
that is a cool piece of granite
little lines of epidote running through it
that's really nice
but we're leaving all the rocks here for
campers later in the season when the campground opens up
I think that's a puddingstone down there
it is
not too bad
but we're leaving them here, what did you find, Nancy?
(Nancy) I got two more fossils
this one's kind of weird, because it looks more like chert material
(Rob) well chert can have fossils in it (Nancy) yeah, but we usually find limestone
like this one
is more calcified with limestone material (Rob) right
(Nancy) but I don't know
just kind of caught my attention because of the little different color
(Rob) yeah usually they're that grey color
(waves lapping)
that's a nice one
something else?
(Nancy) well, we just don't find a lot of stripey rocks on this beach like
we do in some of the other places, but look
(Rob) [laughs] (Nancy) you turn it over
ah, what does it have, a little piece of jasper
(Rob) [laughs] (Nancy) so we're going to call that a
stripey puddingstone
(Rob) yeah, you don't see stripey puddingstones very often
that ones kind of fun
what did you find, Nancy?
(Nancy) just a pretty color (Rob) that's feldspar
found a little banded chert
which I would love to take home, but I said I'm leaving them all here, so
it's staying here
that's a nice one
well, we didn't find a great puddingstone today, but if you're new to the channel
particularly and you're wondering, puddingstone, what is that? What's all
the fuss about?
watch this other video, it shows you a good example of one and also gives you
a history of why it's called a puddingstone