Found Fossil Petoskey Stones in a Ditch 

Should be "Petoskey stones", no? With an E..

If gas wasn't so expensive and I didn't live so far away, I'd be lickin all those rocks too lol!:) neat rocks Bryan! But I'm still attached to Arkansas:) hand picked stuff is the best!!:)

Petoskey stones are found all over. We found them on a trip to upper lower Michigan. Not all were good quality. This was back in the 70’s.

PETOSKEY HEAVEN Thanks Brian and Matrix! Where did you camp while there?

"I licked that stone... Nothing. so at first, I started licking along the initial shoreline" I know you said "looking along" but all I could hear was "Licking" and it's cracking me up. I'm sitting here visualizing you and matrix walking the beach licking rocks and tossing them to the side.

Dude I love checking out ditches! I’ve found some amazing stuff. Too bad I wasn’t allowed to film because it was private property but man, you should have seen the ditch full of barite I found with Adam! Talk about WHAAAAAATT!!! I thought of you 😂 Rock on Bryan 👍🏼

Dude!! WolfDog and i recently just found my 1st ever Petoskey south or Hopkins Park IL in the Kankakee Sands area while looking for bull snakes. Long glacial ride?

Love watching your little dog. He's so eager to get going. And he's having such fun. Happy hunting.

Little dogs got the biggest personality.

I've never heard of potoskey rocks. I live right on Lake Erie and I wonder if we have any on our shores. I always find other beautiful things but now I will be looking for potoskey. Thank you♥️

Matrix’s life is dog heaven.

I've found them more inland and not on the beaches. I've found numerous ones on my property I had in Manistee County. You should go over to the Huron side if you want to find them on the beach. And I've found one as big as you found but it was at the harrietta fish hatchery 35 miles from Lake Michigan.

Petoskey stones are found throughout the Northern Lower Peninsula because that whole area was once an ocean floor. Petoskey and Charlevoix stones are fossils of coral.

I live right across the state from where you were. I hate how Michigan summers are so short. The leaves are still coming out on some of the trees here, and I see they're already changing colors where you were!

I found one of these at Lake Oroville CA . TOO BAD it burned with the rest of my rocks in the fire. Thanks tho! I never knew what it was 🙂

Great finds! Man you were killing it, finding those petoskeys! And seeing little matrix so excited to go out and hunt rocks, was priceless! And those shells and sharks teeth were really awesome! Just a bunch of terrific finds, in both locations! and a whole lot of fun for matrix! Awesome video brian! Thanks for letting us tag along!

I spend all day telling tourists where to find petoskey stones and i alway tell them to get them wet then you see the pattern

I think we’ve progressed since the Flintstones licking rocks lol

It is Petoskey but your all good 😌

I hope you thanked Matrix's bladder properly :)

You should do a collaboration video with wild Kyle he visits up that way also

I used to love searching the beach but I've never seen the shells and rocks or coral that you've found Bryan, what a wonderful collection you found in both those places. Matrix having plenty of fun as always, he so loves the beach lol. I doubt sand dollars are found anywhere near here lol, but I think they are really special. Terry and I have had some very stressful days though today's everything was sorted, we are now calming down which has been helped me by watching your video sweetheart thank you. Now to enjoy my mug of tea Terry has made for me lol, so cheerio for now my friends God bless you and Matrix, love and hugs to you both Mary-Ellen and Terry UK

Awesome Video! Loved It When You Found Your Heart Shaped Petoskey! Loved Your Sea Biscuits As Well! 😊😊😊

Good job Bryan i love these kind of videos!

Welcome to Michigan. Rockhound heaven.

What part of like Lake Michigan I live in the bay part it's by Bay City I live in Saginaw if you ever get a chance check Manistee real nice up there

If you don't mind me asking, what part of Lake Michigan were you at? I have found some of the best Petoskey stones South of Petoskey, but North of Ludington. Trying to find a Petoskey stone in Petoskey, Michigan is next to impossible I swear.

I wish I could go to the Beach so freaking bad

Love these chill rock and fossil collecting videos

I hope you didn't collect those or else this is false advertising, so called "Crystal Collector!" 😅. As always, awesome finds! Keep to the shoreline as there are only so many of those you honestly want to lick. Some creeks and ditches are mildly treated effluence. Don't want you ending up 🤢🤮

The name sounds like someone your grandma would have dated in the 30’s.

Petoskey stones are not rare. I can go anywhere in Northern Michigan and find them by the bucket load. I literally find hundreds pf them every time I go looking

Next time your in the area, please give a little wave towards Lake Ontario, and my old hometown: Toronto. ✌️🙏💐

If you want some good shells go to Portsmouth island on the outer banks you will have to take a ferry across to the island catch it especially after a big storm Scotch bonnet shells look like macaroni Sea shells large conk shells

The Michigan beach you were at looks like the one near EJ where I graduated from! We would go there all the time rockhounding ❤

the last sharks tooth, the white skinny one i think is a Sand shark. They are also called Sand Tigers, they can get up to 9-10ft.

The pointy shells are augers. :)

I’d never seen a sea biscuit before.

Beautiful places Bryan...🐚🌊💦...And matrix!...🐾... 😂

Wow! Love the beach but never found a sea biscuit before!

I can’t wait to get up to lake superior!

Lake michigan is beautiful.. the petoskey stones are great too ❤

Muito bom,,, like

I live in Wilmington NC and never hunted shells at the Brunswick beaches. I am definitely going to Holden Beach now. That shark's tooth was amazing! Great video!

is it fossilized coral?

That was pretty cool for just a little walk about.✌️😎

You're so close to me. Let's link up in Indiana and I'll show you an AWESOME creek for geodes!!!!

Amazing video!! Thanks for sharing!!

Coolest team ever! You guy Rock! 😜🥳🤪

I'm so jealous!!! :-D Great finds!!!

We’re you in Emerald Isle, NC?

Looks like a nice day at the NC beach

Great finds, thank you ❤️

What an awesome video Bryan!!!

You at Holden's Beach NC on the beach

a pallasite to behold minerals 😎🤯🧐

I'm from Michigan..this is one of my favorite activities there 💜

What a wonderful surprise. I recognized the bridge immediately as you crossed over to Holden Beach, NC! My home town and one of many beautiful beaches that Brunswick Co. has to offer. I am very sad that I missed getting to meet you and Matrix in person. During the summer months 90% of my time is spent on that very beach searching for the beautiful shells and shark teeth that Holden Beach has to offer. Hope you and your sweet little Matrix visits again very soon!! Please let us know your coming!!! I love your video's. I have always been a gem geek and I've always dreamed of being a rock hound.

YAY!!! Matrix, buddy! I love that doggo! Wish I could travel where the shells are as plentiful and where you were. Lots of fun watching you make discoveries and enjoy your enthusiasm! Keep the videos coming, please! xoxo

that shark tooth looks deadly

😁👋👍👍👏👏💕🙏 If you come to the Traverse City area or Leland or or Old Mission Light house. Please let me know. I would love to go on a rock, shell and fossil hunt.

Those are stunning!!! They would make beautiful jewelry! They’d also look good sitting up somewhere as well. I hope you show them after they are polished!

Licking rocks! I just realized I just for home from Haunted Ridge last night, and I didn’t Lick a single rock! Love Matrix and your videos!

Fabulous! Love pet stones. You were on my home lake! Were you in Wisconsin or Michigan on the North, Central, or Southern part of the state? Your ditch location was a treasure trove 🤯 Love your channel and your FB group! Stay Crystal 💫 Mari

I metal detect and rock hound at the same time. Hi Matrix and Brian

Awesome video! A spray bottle might be a good thing to keep in the RV. Love Petoskys and all kinds of corals. Beachcombing is my favorite pastime, and whatta cool beach! Matrix has stolen my heart ❤️

😊the “pointy” shells are Augers. And the sea biscuits are not normally found on the NC and SC beaches. The shiny shell at the end is a Jingle. Hope to catch you on a dig sometime! Hopefully in NC or SC.

Awesome video! You da man 🤩

Wound love to shell hunt

Old disabled house bound dusty rusty rockhound here: Matrix is the coolest side-kick on RU-vid! I love the idea of rockhunting roadsides. You made some primo finds there.

awesome will have to check out NC, it was great to meet you and Matrix at the rock show always enjoy the content

Thanks for another great video Bryan. I've seen those Petoskey stones polished and they look great.

I just ❤️ love the sea biscuits and the name fits it's fat size. They're so different being fat and all, look like just like a biscuit. The sandollers I found on the beach in West Port Washington are flat. Like a little spacesocuser.

Matrix is a cutie

you can polish Petoskey stones by hand using regualr wet/dry sandpaper. take it up to 2,000 grit, then rub it on your jeans for that wet look shine!!!

Those petosky stones were good but that other beach with the sharks teeth and sea biscuits was amazing. Hope you do another video from there so we can see more shells and corals. Thank you

I live in Michigan and Petoskey stones are right up there with my favorite rocks ever. Look for pudding stones and greenstone too. Michigan has the best rock hounding rock!!!

I'm from Michigan and ashamed to say I have never found a petoskey.

I knew I wasn't the only rock licker on the planet 😋Absolutely aWeSoMe ❣️

Besides rocks, shells are my other addiction 🤣 In addition to the olives, I think you may have picked up a common nutmeg shell. The skinny pointed ones were augers. I’ve never seen olives like that in one place! 🙌🏼

I like this video !!

I haven’t been there so I’ve had to buy my Petoskeys and Charlevoixs. Some Pestoskeys and Charlevoixs may not look great rough but tumbling brings the patterns out beautifully. I have some rough and tumbled. ITpt was cool that you found stones in the ditch! I really love those shells too. Just this weekend a friend gave me a box of vintage jewelry and there was a necklace with an olive shell pendant. I never find any good shells in NJ. Maybe I don’t know where or when to look. There’s a channel I look at sometimes from south FL and all the shells there. It’s kind of amazing. I was wondering do you tumble your own stones? Thank you for this special video Bryan!

Hexagonaria coral fossils (Petoskey as you call them) are not rare at all and get a lot bigger than what you found today. the non eroded full corals with their root base still attached can be huge. I've seen them at least 2 feet across, I have one complete coral specimen not polished or eroded and it weighs about 25kg.

I'm into finding arrowheads. Have you ever found any and if you have can you show them in a video?

Be careful along the east coast picking up collectibles. Some places, the beaches have made laws that it is illegal to just pick collectibles from the sand and ocean, but you can sure *buy* some from the vendors along the boardwalks and other touristy shops. (Who actually go to the shore line and rake in all they can of the washed up collectibles for free)

There are also some mud stone rocks that have fossilized clams inside. I went to a hotel in Michigan and there was a couple mudstone boulders on the neighboring hotel and there were a ton of fossilized clams on the beach where I stayed at. Now I just have a back pack full of them.

I've been Potoskey hunting in Michigan, found lots of cool specimens.

Thank you very much for teaching me what the stone was I found fifteen years ago on the beach on Lake Ontario Oshawa 3rd marsh beach..

at 5:01 the stone straight to the right of your thumb that looks wavy is a stromataporoid fossil. even older than the nearly 400million year old petoskey and charlevoix stones

if im not mistaken that jellyfish is a portugese man o war and that is a jelly you REALLY dont want to get stung by

Cool. Thanks !

I am second

I love Matrix, he is adorable and a great companion for a digger like you, Brian

Thank you for introducing me to a new type of fossil. Your show is amazing. I am such a fan.

If you haven’t, go to the North Shore of Lake Superior and look for Thomsonite.

I love watching your videos and I love your little dog I have a female it looks just like yours

What an awesome hobby and adventure ! Your doggy-boy is an awesome adventurer

Epic finds 😎

im first

Where where you in Michigan did you got to the Petoskey festival