My name is Martijn, and I was born and raised in the Netherlands. I'm currently living in North America with my beautiful American wife Dawn, where I enjoy going out looking and hopefully finding agates, jaspers, petrified wood and other fun rocks that might draw my attention in the future!
I mostly go looking out in Washington state and Oregon, but I'll go looking anywhere where I might end up!
Join me on my adventures!
P.S. I have another channel called "Dutchman's Nursery" which is all about gardening. URL: ru-vid.com/show-UCwM4yz7D8uSMIPvg1y7tdAg Check that channel out if you're interested!
Have you ever been to the Lewis River, or the Kalama river? We haven’t been to those yet, even though we are close. We usually go to bigger locations, like central Oregon and Washington. After seeing your videos, we need to start searching our local rivers more. We do have some carnelian we found on a river by the Salmon River. But we haven’t been back there for a while.
They're on the bucket list but I haven't been yet, I do know the Kalama river is a good spot to check out. I've tried going to the Salmon river but park rancher said better not to as most if not all is on Weyerhaeuser property and they will prosecute rockhounders (I even called and asked for permission). You'll do well in Southern Washington rivers, good luck and have fun!
I love them all. They glow so bright ✨️ 😍 💛 very nice adventure. However I like you could be satisfied with one great find. I could wrap up the rest of the hunt finding that special find. Great finds.
Thank you, yeah they do! Rockhounding will take you to many beautiful places, I don't think that should be over looked. That cherry on top does round it off nicely though. 😄
I refer to it as my favorite spot, one spot I keep to myself. However, if you're wanting to get into rockhounding look for beaches where the tide gets to gravel/where new gravel is deposited because it can change from day to day. If you have more questions, feel free to ask.
When I hunt I am super focused on agates only. Forget the Jasper jasper jasper and the “ sugar agates”. Brain wanders and the eye may not catch the transparency. I’ve been hunting for 55 years and I’m guessing I have 20,000 agates. Trained eye. I would never bother with video , it’s my beach time alone.
I hear that, I'm getting pickier and pickier as I do the hobby as well. Jasper especially has to be pretty awesome to take it home anymore. It's not too much effort for me to make the video's, and once I started I couldn't stop. Thank you for commenting, and keep enjoying the hobby!
We just found your channel! What side of I-5 do you usually rockhound? We are about 45 minutes from the Newaukum. I’ve always wondered about it, but have never been there. I guess we need to go out and explore more areas closer to home. You found some beautiful agates!!!
Welcome to the channel and thank you for watching! Usually to the left of I-5, however the river goes on forever. Good luck and I hope you find some goodies!
I love & live for beach walks like you're on & I definitely end up filling my pockets with treasures like you do but I have to ask; what do you end up doing with most of your finds? Can you make money collecting rocks?
Generally I clean them, soak them in citric acid, or iron out if needed, put some mineral oil on them and put them in glass jars to look at. I'd like to turn some into necklaces possibly later. Individual specimens have to be pretty spectacular to make money on. Making things out of it might some side cash, not enough to live on I think. Keep enjoying the hobby! I love how it takes me to beautiful places.
Yeah, I checked on it a month or so ago and it was very high, no gravel showing. But it's starting to look good now, some rubber boots will be helpful. Good luck and have fun!
@@DutchmansAgates I got chest waders. I had a lot of luck on the Newaukum earlier this year by timing it after the winter floods, but this go when the water's finally dropping I'm looking forward to accessing spots I normally can't get to.
Over my lifetime, I must have walked over thousands of agates. Growing up in Texas, I always saw quartz "rocks," so I guess I was used to them, and felt that agates must have been the same thing. Zero interest, lol. I still don't quite understand the fascination with hunting them (I have lived in opal, star garnet, and thunder egg country for 23 years now). What draws you to looking for agates, and what do you end up doing with them? Some people just collect for fun, some sell, some polish or tumble or cut them. What's your deal?
Thank you for your comment. I like how most of them are different in some way, either in color, banding pattern or type (nodule, vein, even geode). I don't do much with them yet, clean them up, put a coating of mineral oil on them and sort them by size to look at. When I started it gave me a reason to get out, go to a beautiful beach, go to a peaceful creek/river. Then I made my first video, since I already made gardening videos, and turned out people liked to watch them, so here we are today. Thank you for watching!
That's easy, this isn't a well known spot like Damon point. Any well known spots I'll always share. If it's a spot I had to find myself I don't. Which to be clear is unfortunate, however I rely on finding things to make a good video. I hope you understand.
It's on the Oregon coast, I refer to as my "favorite spot". I found it driving down the 101, since I had to find it myself. There will be many I will share in the future.
When I was a kid in the '60s, my family, on yearly vacations, combed the Oregon beaches from Astoria to Bookings. We would bring home multiple 5-gallon buckets of agate. On one vacation, I also scored five glass floats, one of which was 8". I still have them today.
Great finds! Love them all🥰 What do you do with the rocks you take home? 6:33 It's chalcedony for sure, and, if I'm right, it's probably a petrified form of sea life. We do have lots of this kind of stones in many colours, in all North West European countries. We call them vuursteen in Dutch (and in Afrikaans as well). In German, it's feuerstein, in Icelandic tunnisteinn, and in all other Germanic languages, it's flint. Only in rockhounding videos in Amarican English, I think there are multiple different names for this kind of rock, and I think it's based on the colour, which term is the correct one, but it still confuses me sometimes😅 Ik kijk uit naar je volgende video 😊
Thank you very much for your great comment! Currently I clean them, give them an acid bath if needed, sort them by size and have them in glass jars. In the future I'd like to polish them and turn some into a necklace or something. I remember finding vuursteen (flint) in Belgium, haha. We'd visit WW1 battlefields and it'd be on edges of farm fields, etc. I didn't know what it was called in other languages so that's cool to know! I don't find flint here at all. 🤔 Ik zie je in de volgende video! 😄
Thanks for the video, Dutchman. What a gorgeous kitty. I like the leopard print. They always like to be between you and the things that keep you occupied. It's annoying and adorable at the same time😹 I've missed your last video somehow, going to watch it now. Doei👋
Haha, thank you! Yeah definitely, she's very curious, and if a blooper like that happens I'll put her in the video. Thank you for watching. Tot de volgende video 😄
