I think it is neat that both you and Kyle can hunt for the same rocks on the same beach and come up with totally different specimens to take home. Plus the viewers are happy too!
@@MichiganRocks you two are kind of opposites in some ways - but the same in others. (Btw hubby is land survey and he says yup looks like a survey marker)
I was at lake Huron a couple of weeks ago, and it started raining, I put my rain poncho on and kept looking for rocks, it was awesome to see the waves in the lake during a storm, no thunder or lightning, but is was easier to find the great beach rocks when every thing is wet. You really found some good rocks today, always nice to see Kyle
Yeah, wet rocks are usually better to hunt. It never ended up raining as much as I thought it was going to that day, so we had to stick with the water hunting.
The problem with inland lakes is that the beaches are private property. You can't just walk them like the Great Lakes beaches. I'm sure there are plenty of Petoskeys there though.
It's nice that you and Kyle see the stones in a little bit different way. We get to enjoy your beautifully polished fossils, then the various forms of fossils as Kyle sees them. Time to watch Kyle's video! Thanks for this great walk along the lake.
@@MichiganRocks I must have already watched it then. Did you watch the video Kyle released yesterday that covered before and after footage of hurricane Idalia damage? Scary stuff.
@@MichiganRocks Kyle and his friends did an excellent job of a video showing the before and after the hurricane hit land. Well, as close as they could get to the damaged area. We didn’t need to see anymore, they were getting a little unsafe at times!! But Bob, we couldn’t tell them any different!!! I felt they played safe the whole time and took it seriously when driving in the aftermath!!! 🤗
🙋♀️❤ Very interesting stretches of beach...strangely forlorn and abandoned in spots, then beautiful coves. I was hooked on the boulders! Very nice results..polishing at the end!
I always enjoy watching you and Kyle go ruck hunting together it is fun seeing how excited he gets when you find him nice rocks or corals 😃 that petoskey stone is the best one Indeed ! I must say those horn corals turned out great after polishing 🥰
You both found lots of beautiful petoskey stones. It was cool to see how the beach varies in different spots, some was sandy and some was very rocky .😍🥰😇👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I hope everyone in Florida you know is fine after the hurricane, Kyle. Prayers. On another note, Rob your camera is awesome and so clear, it's like I'm there with y'all. ❤️❤️😃🙏
Sometimes it works well and other times I have trouble getting it to focus. I mostly use a GoPro, which is great for the wide shots, but really bad at close ups. I use an iPhone when I need a really good close up of something small.
I would love to go rock hunting there. So many cool rocks in the Great Lakes. Thanks for sharing the bedrock where petoskey stones come from. The end of the polished horn coral and petoskey are beautiful! 😀
Wow, it’s amazing when you find that many. And you left that big rough one on the beach! Great polishing job on the Petoskey. I like to polish the horns too, depending on the mineralization. Thanks for a great vid!
I like that too. It's hard for me to video stuff that I don't like because it's hard to imagine what other people like. Having someone along with different tastes, solves that problem.
Hi Rob, I was watching another of my favorite channels, Atomic Shrimp, and he referenced you several times for his learning rock tumbling video! I felt so proud 😅
I wonder how many people know that lake Huron has salt mines under it and would be saltwater but has a layer of rock separating the salt from the lake. How different it would be if it and all the great lakes were saltwater
Loved watching you find all those petoskeys! Had my heart racing. I’ve never seen that many, guess I’m not looking in th right place on Huron. ! You really found a couple of beauty’s. Thanks for the stroll.
Stunning stones - what fun - I bet your friend was chuffed to bits. Yes, you rarely see lake glass, do you - maybe there would be some around the more built-up areas? Lovely Adventure, very relaxing.
There's glass out there, but I don't look for it and therefore don't really see it. Sam and his girlfriend find a fair amount of it. I found one that was clear and green glass together in one piece a couple weeks ago.
The thick stuff I was walking through? I have seen yellow pollen floating on top of the water, but I didn't recognize the stuff in this video as pollen. I have also seen dead May flies washed up, but this stuff didn't stink like those do. Thanks for educating me.
Love your channel! Going to have to drive to Michigan because I'll have too many rocks to check if I fly, lol. The best thing about finding the new best is that you have 2 great quality rocks! Keep up the great work of rock hunting and taking us along.
After watching your video(s), I have a need to find Petosky stones! In fact, I'm planning a week to go to Michigan and hunt for myself. I'm in central Pennsylvania and I can be there in about 9 1/2 hours. I'm psyched! Good hunt and I love seeing you and Kyle hunting together.
You won't find them as plentiful as on this beach. You should be able to find some if you walk a long way, but don't expect what you saw here. This beach is remote and not hunted very much. It's pretty hard to get to.
No, it's totally different. Partridge point has a lot of death plate type fossils and almost no Petoskey Stones. That might not come through in a video, but if you were at both beaches, you'd see the difference.
We're going on a big rock hunt to Grand bend Ontario next weekend. Supposed to be fantastic weather. I'm going to make sure to get a good amount of finds to put in the rock tumbler over the winter. I don't know if you've ever shown your favorite rock out of your collection on a video but maybe in an upcoming rocks in a box episode you can show your top 2 or 3 finds. Cheers from Buffalo
6:51 mins center of picture - looks like a large banded chert. I know you like striped rocks so I was surprised you missed it. I mean I hollered - how could you not hear me?
“They look more fossily, like Kyle likes them.” 😂 cool petosky stone source info & footage. i had no idea the hole-y coral was cool 18:00 gorgeous! shined up real purty. so did the horn corals 👍🏻 i like it when you & Kyle hang. it’s always fun & funny.
Took my first trip to your hometown Alpena the past couple days. Went to rock port first, the southern end was better hunting, but the black flies were kickin. Went to meijer, got some joggers, and I was good to go. Found lots of great stuff there. Gowganda, variolite, piles of meh petoskis, cladapora, a gigantic pudding stone, and various others. I also went to Nowicki’s, was great. Today we went to partridge point in search of fossils. I found a blastoid, some crinoid stems and other fun stuff. Thank you for what you do Rob. Maybe some day we can hunt rocks together.
Sounds like you did well. I'm really surprised that you found a big puddingstone to the south at Rockport. I have found more to the north. The cladopora is thick there though. I'm glad you had a good time. Did you check out the sinkholes or the quarry while you were at Rockport?
The worst is when it sprinkles on and off, especially for Petoskeys. When you're looking for a speckled pattern, rain sprinkles make them all look that way.
Great finds. Funny how horn coral are different from beach to beach, I picked a few from that beach a couple years back that were like those. Rogers City has different ones and so does Alpena. I thought I knew where you were from the rocks and then you pointed out the bedrock with the deep drop off and I knew I was right. Last time I went the water was high and it was wavy, same mix of stones but I did not find any banded chert, that was a nice one.
We didn't see much banded chert. The horn corals I usually find tend to have little voids in them. I have seen some polished from up in Cheboygan county that looked really solid. I'll have to look for some up that way.
Hey Rob , thanks for everything you show us, we’re coming up to Michigan the first week of June, plan on hunting around Alpena, is there any beaches that we shouldn’t go to, and beaches that we should go to, hoping you can suggest some, so we don’t waste our time, thanks in advance
Alpena is great for fossils. I'd suggest going to Rockport. That place is really fun and you could easily spend a whole day there. Rockport is an old limestone quarry. Inside the quarry, you'll find lots of fossils, including giant Petoskey stones. Those Petoskey stones aren't much good for polishing but they're great as fossils specimens. There are loads of other fossils there too. If you hike a couple of miles behind the quarry, there are about a dozen sinkholes in the woods. There are signs, but looking at the satellite view on your phone helps you find some that don't have trails going to them. Then there's the beach. To the north, there are gastropod fossil about 1/2 to one mile up. If you drive to the south side of the boat ramp, and park near the water, the rocks are completely different. There are some huge rocks with fossils galore. Another good spot for fossils is Partridge Point Park. Take Partridge Point road from the north until the pavement ends. Just after the dirt starts, you'll see a road toward the lake. Park down there and head out on the trail behind the green gate. This is public, so it's ok to go past the gate. That little bay is full of fossils.
@@MichiganRocks Correct! Definitely not a Petoskey but some form of hexacorallia(I believe that is the name?) fossil. I don't know the specific type but it has a nice translucency to it!
@@jamesferry6717 Hexagonaria. Hexagonaria here is not translucent. Well, the good stuff isn't. Sometimes it gets really silicified and that stuff is probably slightly translucent but is not usually very good for lapidary purposes. The pattern isn't as crisp and those usually have little voids in the rock.
Preque Isle harbor, mi there is a crystal point park...looks like some good beach there from google maps...what you think. I'm from duluth mn if i got that far I definitely going to look a lot so I don't come back empty handed. The upper mi past grand marais mi is closer to me if that is good for petosky and horn coal to. Nice stones, I agree that getting smoother ones seems better less grinding later to to get them nice looking.
That's not a good spot for Petoskey stones at all. It's beautiful there, but the rocks are pretty boring. I was there or very close at about 2:30 in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-W5Q1W8B251M.htmlsi=_thSUGCDOJsYZsy- The area to the east of Grand Marais is awesome, but not for Petoskey stones. Petoskey stones are found mainly south of Harbor Springs in Lake Michigan or south of Rogers City in Lake Huron. Presque Isle might actually be too far north because I didn't see any there. The key to finding them is to go as far from public access points as you can. If you have a kayak that's a great way to get farther down the beach, or just plan to walk a few miles.
They're not holes, they're just dark in the middle. Petoskey Stone is a fossilized coral called Hexagonaria. Each little hexagon was actually an individual animal.
That's an awesome beach. I don't believe I have found that one yet. Doesn't look familiar to me. You both found some really nice Petoskeys. Loved the horn coral.
Hey how's it going today? Im not sure if you are going to see this comment, but here goes; I've seen in some of your videos you find what you call "Mystery Stone". I'm having a little trouble seeing it due to technical limitations, but I find it too down in S. St. Louis county and I don't know what it is either, however I always pick it up, usually to my disappointment lol, but I have 4 I have kept because 3 have Agate banding in them, and 2 have Skip Atom style banding . The other last one is really different. It's black and white with Limonite blending in one side and Hematite blending in to the other side. If I'm correct they feel almost velvety to the rub, and have a distinctive microsparkle? If you EVER find out what the name of it is PLEASE let me know. I believe it is some sort/form of Chalcedony. Anyhoo, thank you, I appreciate your channel.
Your stuff does sound just like what I find. Part of that rock is chalcedony, as identified by two geologists this summer. But there's also layers that are the color of limonite, hematite, and maybe jasper. Here's a video where I showed it to the geologists. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lWTgUbdccJE.html
@@MichiganRocks Thank you. I actually watched that video a long time ago, and I really appreciate it. I really learned a LOT from it, as I was interested in what a lot of the other minerals I was seeing were. Thank you again for your time.
@@kirbycraft1302 Are you sure you watched that one? It was just published on August 11, although we did a very similar one last summer too. Maybe by "a long time ago" you meant a month ago, though.
@@MichiganRocks Thank you. I just finished watching it, and it was literally riveting for me. Ironically I started watching it yesterday thinking it was the one from last year, or season before that, I'm not sure, but thank you so much again. NEW NAME........ MYSTERY CHALCEDONY!!! I throw 99% back, but I have a FEW of them that are,in my opinion, very nice. Once in a blue moon they have Limonite staining on the husk, with the pitting/divets. That type is much closer to a Mottled Agate, like the Mottled Agate doppelganger, or something like that. I better stop I can go on and on. Again thank you for your time to make that video. Very informative and educational.
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I did that in my first every beach video. That makes people who don't understand how beaches work very, very angry. They think that the rock will never been seen again.
Kingsley North. Here is my review of it a couple links to it: Cabber 6 Review: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-n30aBTu9OkY.html Cabber 6 with upgraded wheels (the one in this video): kingsleynorth.com/kingsley-north-cabber-6-nova.html?ref=robertabram1& (affiliate link) Standard Cabber 6: kingsleynorth.com/kingsley-north-cabber-6.html?ref=robertabram1& (affiliate link)
I can't remember if we found puddingstones in this video, but I do find them often. In this video, they were mostly Petoskey Stones. Puddingstone are a meta-conglomerate rock made of sand and pebbles that was heated and compressed into rock. English settlers thought they looked like suet pudding with berries, which is why they're called puddingstones. I even made suet pudding once to see if it really looked similar. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aYwuso9BMEk.html
Do you know of any good places to search in the state of New Hampshire?? I would love to go to your beaches, but too far away!?😅 Ive searched Maine beaches a couple of times ( salt water)?? Onced lived a mile away from a few original mica mines in New Hampshire. So I have a huge collection of quartz w/ other minerals.
Hey Rob, Great video! I like the beaches that have both puddingstones and Petoskey stones. My wife and I are flying to southern Michigan next month for a family event. Later in the trip we're heading north through the Lake Huron side of the mitten to sightsee and rock hound between Alpena and Mackinaw City. We can't collect many rocks or very large ones either since we're flying and our luggage is a limiting factor. But we have to collect at least a few small puddingstones and Petoskeys from Lake Huron and some beach agates, unakites, and yooperlites from Lake Superior. We've got the following sites picked out to rock hound on Huron before we reach Mackinaw City: Rockport recreation area, Hoeft State Park, and Huron Shores roadside park. Are there any other suggestions for sites you'd be comfortable sharing? Thanks, Joe
Those are pretty good spots. Also consider 40 Mile Point Lighthouse in the same area. South of Alpena, there's Harrisville State Park (small rocks), Sturgeon Point Lighthouse, and Negwegon State Park. Negwegon is sandy, but there are rocks if you walk to the north.
@@MichiganRocks Thanks Rob. We'll definitely add the 40 mile point lighthouse to our short list. We haven't gotten far enough in our planning to research sites for our first days drive to Alpena. We appreciate the sites you offered. I just viewed all three of the sites (south of Alpena) on Google Earth and the Sturgeon Point Lighthouse looks really interesting. If we only have enough time to visit one site, would Sturgeon Point be the one to see?
@@joechiaretti4131 No, the beach there eventually turns to sand and it gets really picked over. Negwegon would be higher on my list, although it requires walking a long way to get to the rocks.
@@joechiaretti4131 You have to walk about 3/4 of a mile (rough guess) to get to the rocks. Before that, it's all sand. It's probably not the place to go if you're in a hurry because it's also a slow drive in on a sandy trail. It's a little quicker to come in from the south because you're not on the trail for nearly as long.
Hey I live in Cave City, Ar. and I found a black rock that was almost as hard as Agate, pretty close, would you have any idea what it could be? Thanks Ebby G Shreve
I have a Kingsley North cabbing machine. Here is my review of it a couple links to it: Cabber 6 Review: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-n30aBTu9OkY.html Cabber 6 with upgraded wheels (the one in this video): kingsleynorth.com/kingsley-north-cabber-6-nova.html?ref=robertabram1& (affiliate link) Standard Cabber 6: kingsleynorth.com/kingsley-north-cabber-6.html?ref=robertabram1& (affiliate link) I also have an old, homemade flat lap, and a lot of tumblers.
Why is Lake Huron so scummy and dirty compared to Lake Superior? Is it because it is shallower so it's warmer than Lake Superior so stuff grows in it easier? Or are there more industries that pollute the water? Just wondering. I've only ever been to Lake Superior. Thanks!
It's not always like that, in fact it's usually not on the beaches I go to. There might be more algae, but I'm not sure about that. Sometimes there are hatches of bugs, like mayflies for example, that die off and then wash up on shore. I'm not sure what was in the water that day.
Just subscribed! Hope see my FIRST FIND on my YT channel of a silicified Petoskey stone. We are Lake Huron. Was very happy and hope to find an intact one soon. Enjoy your finds and videos 😊
