First Rockhounding Adventure of 2020 | North Shore Beach
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- Опубліковано 4 сер 2024
- Thanks for joining me along our first rockhounding adventure of 2020! We had some great success hunting Lake Superior agates and other amazing rocks! Please let me know if you have any other ideas of some of these amazing treasures we found.
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Thanks so much for watching and happy new year! Hope it starts off amazing for everyone. Don't forget that if we can reach that 1000 subscriber milestone I'll give away some more lake superior agates!
So glad the weather warmed up so you could get out again. Seemed like the lake was nice and peaceful also. Sorry the kid threw the rock back in the water. Kids will be kids ! Your finds are amazing ! Enjoyed. Happy Rockhounding :)
Oh it was a highlight of the day, made me laugh so hard. Many more rocks out there so I wasnt at all upset, just such a great kid moment!! And I'm glad the weather has been great, makes it easy to get out and have a blast!
Glad you got some new gear but Michigan Rocks is feeling the pull to get out to keep up with you. His last video was pretty funny, he has a bit more ice to deal with. Love the videos keep it up!!♥️♥️♥️♥️
Haha I still need to watch it! I've been so busy lately, hoping to catch up on videos tonight!!
Fantastic video! I felt I was right there with you on your hunt. The agates you sent sure are beautiful, I feel guilty in receiving them. I might polish a couple of them but the others should be left alone in their natural state. Thanks.
Oh dont dewl guilty! They were meant for you from the moment they were created!! So happy you were able to have them!
I think that rock that with the feldspar is amygdaloidal basalt. The copper mine tailings piles in the Keweenaw peninsula are filled with that sort of stuff. I think the orange spots are feldspar like you said. The agate that you thought might be a sagenite might actually be a tube agate. I'm not an agate expert, but I think those little holes are tubes.
I've thought about buying one of those commercial rock scoops many times, but I never have. I'm worried that it would be heavier than my PVC scoop. I tend to stay out for about five hours and I don't want to be weighted down any more than necessary. I know they're aluminum, but that's still heavier than plastic. I need to get my hands on one sometime and get a feel for it. How did the shape of the end work for picking a single rock out of the lake? My spoon comes to one point and does a decent job. I'm not sure if the shape of yours would be even better.
The scoop is actually very light, I never thought once that it was "weighing" me down, so maybe try it out! And the end is good, it could use a few more holes in the scoop, that's the only negative thing I could say about it.
@@AgateDad Thanks for the review, Taylor.
Thanks my friend 👏💎🙏
Of course!!
Thanks buddy for the great video
Thanks for watching John, really appreciate it!
Man new gear new year! Heck yeah dude! It’s rad cause it’ll get you out there comfortably and allows you to cover more ground than you could before.
Those rocks are purty brother. And the images at the end always help show them perfectly. Nice work Taylor!!!! Get it son! 👊
Thanks man! My thoughts exactly on the waders helping me cover more ground. I wish it was nice so I could get outside to take some better pics but it's been kinda crummy...with winter and all haha thanks for watching bud!
Yay new gear new year, they work a treat too. The gloves look awesome for the job, be interesting see how long they last. Thanks for sharing, you wouldn't think you've only just started, keep up the great work.
The gear was perfect! Hopefully the gloves last through winter! It sure seems like I started all this so long ago, only 7ish months though, pretty crazy. Super happy with how much fun it's all been and all the amazing people I've met along the way 😆
We appreciate you Taylor, for always bringing us along with you on your journey. What an awesome adventure and experience! You find the coolest rocks.
YEEEEEEEESSS, another AD video!!! Happy New Year, Taylor! Glad to see you are having some decent weather and being able to get out there. Also - did you get a puppy?! Super cute. Whew, I'm way too hyper for this time of the morning - I must need more coffee. Thanks for sharing. :)
Yes super happy weather is being nice to us up here! And no we didnt get a puppy, that's our two year old english golden retriever, Bentley. Hes a big puppy though lol I'm having my daily dose of coffee right now 😳
Really like the video, looks like Santa was giving you some goodies for the hunt. Some nice pieces you have around the lakes there.
Santa was nice with the scoop, I had a fun little daddy date with my son getting the tiller and gloves though haha lake superior is so fruitful in its beauty, from the stones to the killer views, it never ends!
Great first hunt of the year and awesome gear! Glad to see you hunting for more than just agates woohoo! LOVE that jasp/moss-agate!👌 Sa-weet find dude. And 6:15 is totally a BIF (banded iron formation) nice!
Keep up the great work
Happy Hunting Taylor!😎🐾
Thanks Marlaina! That's cool about the BIF! Yeah I like finding a lot of stuff, just gotta start showing it!
Yes I agree it is a BIF!
Great video getting out in the cold! As far as that first mysterious rock that you cannot figure out it's really looks like prehnite in basalt with a nice square vug. Look closely inside of the vugs sometimes there is specks of copper or silver or even copper or silver wires. We find lots of these in copper country at mines and beaches.
Oh will do! Thanks for all that phenomenal info!! And thanks for watching Dave!
Nice new gear....looking forward to seeing more finds with all that awesome equipment. Thanks for sharing.
Love your little beauties! These are some gorgeous girls! If I'm not mistaken the one we with feldspar over basalt looks kinda like a small seam agate. So glad you have some new gear to keep you warm and protected. As addicts, we tend to forget about the elements. You're a young man with a family and that's important! Hope to see more awesome videos. Love all the shoreline shots. Great lakes are a bucket lister for me!
Well superior would not disappoint, and the north shore is amazing..and the south shore, polar opposite yet still beautiful! I would love to explore the south shore more! Good call on the possible seam agate!
@@AgateDad I have a few very minute ones. Lol. It's the only way I pieced it together. I have some bigger ones that I got from a friend, that are phenomenal. Any who great video. Have a great day!
Awesome agates! I love the moss agate one and the white one with defying bands. Seems like 2020 has started off great!
Oh I couldn't believe it, so happy to start off to such a great start!
I'm a flyfisherMann and I have chest waders so those waves that can surprise you and go over the hip waders don't. I'm 66 now so I don't wade in the water at all. HaHa I am blessed to live on the Bay of Fundy and the tides go out so no wading required. Although the scoop you have would work great in creeks. I've used sticks but that's hard and frustrating.
Yeah I pay care attention to waves and how hard or soft the ground I'm stand on is, earlier today I was put and a slight ridge of sand started giving out on me and I almost dunked a leg. Much better to have only one leg go down then both! The scoop works really great, sunny and windless days are best for seeing through the water though!
Oh man. I have to get to Michigan for a vacation. Between you and Michigan Rocks, your killing me. Such gorgeous specimens. Especially that last one. And your water is so crystal clear so you can see the rocks underwater. All I find in central Iowa is limestone, limestone and more limestone. Maybe a little sandstone, some quartz and iron pyrite but nothing as beautiful as the stuff Michigan Rocks throws back. It almost makes me cry at times. Our water any where around here is all muddy and silty too so you can only see what is on the bank and those are not always clean enough to tell what they are. I have been a rock hound since I was 2 years old and I am 52 now so I have a few (hundred maybe thousand) rocks from many different areas but I don't think I have been anywhere that has so many beautiful specimens in such a small area.
There is a lot of beauty in Michigan, I would like to try there myself someday! With winter freezing everything over, Minnesotas north shore beaches of lake superior are where I spend my time. I would like to try out Wisconsins south shore to see how it would turn out in winter.
@@AgateDad I forgot you are in Minnesota. I do have a couple of rocks from Wisconsin. We love going to Door County. I found a couple of really neat rocks on the little beach right across from the resort we stayed in. Good luck in all your hunts, where ever they may be.
@@mamasgonecreating1967 Oh no worries! I know the beaches can blend together lol
Good morning my dearFrom Brasil.
Thanks for warching!!
Great Job, Hard work in the frozen ground. I was out hunting agates yesterday, but it was considerably warmer 50 degrees, Victoria B.C. Canada.
I would be tanning and not rockhounding if we hit 50 lol jk I stay pale northern white year round 😅
If you're shooting with a go-pro, you should get the head or chest mount so we can also watch you dig. 😁
I completely agree! Still getting use to the scoop, I'll try my best to show that in future vids!!
Happy new year! Nice goodies you got there for Christmas.
Happy new year to you as well! Yeah the scoop was a gift and then I got myself the gloves and tiller lol Gifts to me from me I guess!
10:55 i think thomsonite, and the next one might be as well just smaller little circular crystal shapes
11:55 i think that one is also some thomsonite, just more reddish brown crystals, the agate running through it is pretty awesome though
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Hey Taylor, that smaller agate with the super tight bands is very cool. I have a couple of marbles made from that kind of material and the bands, being so tight, cause a kind of chatoyancy in the stone when you shine a flashlight on it or take it out in the sunlight. That stone you found looks like it would do the same thing if polished with a curved surface (as opposed to a flat saw cut).
Thanks! And that's very neat, I've seen people who find beach glass marbles on the beach, that would be pretty neat. And that would be fun to give it a curved polish! Add it to the jar lol
Very nice specimens Taylor. The Agates i collect often have saganite spray inclusions and they are quite beautiful within the banding. I just sent Nate a box of FA and would be happy to share some with you.
Ps
Loved the scenic drive.
Its such an amazing drive! Cant beat it! I would have to say the north shore is my absolute favorite place to be! So much to do!!
Awesome vid dude, I'd go buy some hand warmer packets (hot hands) and put some in my gloves and some down them waders. That might help. That one stone with the different colors might be some type of agatized fossil maybe. I find stuff like that all the time.
I was actually not cold at all in my waders. It was just cold in the shade lol super cool about it might be agatized fossil!
They have wool wader socks that are wonderful. I wear them in the house and Hubby is grateful for no cold feet.
Happy New Year Taylor, glad we got a chance to meet! I have the same yellow handled tool you do - I call it my tomahawk. It gets equal use in my veggie garden and my rock trips. They're amazing for heavy clay soil with small roots....
When did we meet?? Or are you talking via youtube? Lol sorry long day. That tiller is perfect!
@@AgateDad Via UA-cam ;) I should have said "Meet" with quotes LOL!
@@oakknobrocks1772 😂 oh I felt so bad for a second, I was thinking, oh no when would we have met haha
I have that same rock stick. Works great just need those hipwaders
It really does work great! Helped me find so many more treasures!
Enjoyed your adventure. I love rock hounding. I live in northwest indiana
Thanks Michael! What kind of stuff are you finding out there??
@@AgateDad my area there is not much. I look for arrow heads. And drive a couple of counts south and look for geodes.
@@michaelstrong3634 well those are pretty amazing, I wish I could find stuff like that around here!!
It funny/sad to see videos before the pandemic with people talking about how awesome this years going to be! Little did you know what 2020 had waiting for us
No kidding.. kind of crazy to think of how this year has been.
Gratz on your new gear and your cool finds !*!*!*! Thanks for an Awesome video. Hope you get an ID on the ones you need :)
I believe I did and thanks for watching Larry! Pretty pumped about the new gear!
Wow great fun video! I'm in love with your new treasure scoop! Where do I get one?
Thanks so much for watching! I'll copy the link below!
kingsleynorth.com/treasure-scoop-42-inch.html
Thanks for you quick response! Super excited, my new treasure scoop is on it's way!
If you wear chest waders just don't go in past just above your waste, you probably wont be able to see in the water that good that deep anyways but as long as you can still stand up you wont ever drown. Once your waders fill up you can stand up but it wont pull you down. This is only if you slip and go under though. If you do fall in deeper water just keep your feet up and use the air trapped in your waders from your wading belt to float you. Ive never heard of anyone dying from wearing waders. Good stuff Dad
Thanks and I just have hip waders so they are good! Plus if they ever did fill up I could easily slide out of them, got them a size too big!
@@AgateDad the hype about drowning in them is way over the top, you'll be good.
@@MrAspden yeah im not too worried! Thanks!
@@AgateDad You need some scuba gear that would be epic
@@MrAspden oh you know it!!
I was just wondering where I can purchase a scoop like the one you have? Love your videos and thank you for sharing your adventures.
kingsleynorth.com/treasure-scoop-42-inch.html
That's where I believe mine was purchased. It's super light and durable, I'm very happy with it! Thanks so much for watching!
I have that tool with the rake and hoe and man does that help same on your hands. More fun tools and no it isn’t annoying it is suspenseful!
haha well next time I use it I will have to show more of the digging through the rocks!
Little did you know troublesome 2020 would be.
Its been a year for sure
happy New Year !! good to see ya, just wanted to let you know I'm not seeing a thumbtag image for this vid ,its just on default, ; ) case you didn't know.
What do you mean thubtag image??
In my recommendations on my home page your vid title was there but no "thumb tag" image, (no picture with it)
@@QuestForDetails weird! Just asked my wife to check and she said it's there on her end..strange! Thanks though bud!
Wow! I read your pinned comment...hoping to reach 1,000 subscribers to do a give away? You have far exceeded that number in a year! Congrats! You deserve it! Love your vids!, reminds me of my vacays with my hubby when we go to the Great Lakes.
Thats pretty cool, I forgot about that, its been a blesses year for sure! So many amazing supporters ❤❤❤
@@AgateDad Truly blessed!
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Thanks for watching!!
@@AgateDad Great, I liked it.I just watched it again.
feldspar glitters
we have feldspar in the granite here
thats really cool!
No lifestraw?
Oh man I was downstairs last night and saw it next to another piece of gear I'm going to be using later on and I thought "CRAP". Would have loved to use it, I'm going to try to get out this week and I'm going to be putting the straw in there and trying it out, seems simple enough to use!
@@AgateDad Before the first time you use it drink some tap water through it to prime it
@@SlayermikeFishingandMORE sounds good! Im excited to use it, ive heard good things about lake superiors water being amazing when filtered!
Check out one of our fellow rockhounds. The Crystal Collector on youtube. He's very knowledgeable and a great guy.
I've been watching that legend for a long time!
@@AgateDad He's amazing, and I love Matrix. You're quite nice to wtch as well. I always appreciate a fellow rockhound!
Matrix is a funny! Thanks so much! I really appreciate that :) my next few videos are full of really good finds, excited to share it with you all 😁
Who else watches these because there is snow on the ground
Geo Bryce i watch for the rocks, i dont even really care much about the person hounding lol, i wanna see those rocks!
webdevnoobie same, but because there is snow on the ground I can’t hunt for agates till spring
It definitely helps us watch lol