Lake Huron Puddingstone Hunting by Kayak
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2023
- I put in my kayak near Cheboygan for a little rock hunting. There's not a lot of extra room in the boat, but I'll squeeze you in if you want to come along.
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It’s been awhile since we’ve had a kayak video. I could almost feel the boat bouncing around in the waves. There sure was an endless supply of rocks on that stretch of beach. Thanks for taking us along !
There's a better kayak video coming out in a couple weeks. Not a great rock day, but I filmed something else really cool. I got shots from the kayak, from the air, and under the water.
Yes, ThankYou for sharing this with us ❤️ 😊😊😊❤🎉❤ The sounds of water, wind and you searching for rocks 💯 % BESTEST
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
So last weekend I was out with my wife doing a bit of shopping for a birthday present for our youngest. We stumbled into a place that was all polished rocks. I picked out a piece of Jasper, warming up to show off all the stuff I learned from you on your channel. "You know what this is Meg? This is Ja--" "Jasper" She finished. "And that's an Agate, and this one is Amethyst."
I picked up a pink stone that someone had shaped into a heart. "Rose Quartz" she said, before I could say anything. I came at all this from a geology interest, I had forgotten the connection to her interest in making jewelry, so of course she knew better than me. It would have been humbling, but I'm quite used to being an idiot by now.
Yeah, I know what you mean. Whenever there's a question of who is right, I have come to realize that it's going to be Nancy, so why fight it?
A little piece of heaven... Beautiful rocks, stunning scenery and the sound of the ocean.... Always very relaxing 👍
I agree!
This is an awesome stretch of beach. That dark pudding stone was left in the oven too long. 😃
Ha! A burnt pudding.
Thanks for sharing! Great views
Excellent vid…. Nice to see the sunshine ☀️ I gotta get me a kayak
Ahhhhh …. The sound of water 💧
Pretty place Indeed Rob …. Pretty Place 🙏
Beautiful place, nice kayak ride even if it was a little rough.
Great video Rob. The boulders were something!!
I think the boulders were the best rocks I saw that day.
Loved seeing you paddling around again! I just took the family to the Fort Gratiot County Park again, found a few keepers, including pudding stones! Glad to see you finish the hunt after all that capsizing! Keep safe.
I didn't get out in the kayak nearly as much as I usually do this summer. I have been out more in August and September than the rest of the summer put together.
Rob, hope you didn't get hurt from your fall. The water looked really clear except for one area; bet scuba would have been fun. Don't understand why you couldn't just plop that nice boulder on the front of your kayak & bring it back home for the back yard. 😂 As always, lots of fun rock hunting w/you. Hello to Nancy & Sam. God bless.
No, I just slipped and my camera went under when I reached down to catch myself.
Love Cheboygan my family had a place there until my parents passed away now my sister has a place there. Looks like a great day of rock hunting and a nice beach. Thanks 🙏
Yep, Cheboygan is a great spot.
Loved going antique shopping there
I like clicking back and seeing a new vid!
Treacherous paddling for sure. You can't see those boulders until you are right on top of them! This was fun. Thank you for taking us along.
No, I can clearly see boulders as I'm paddling up to them. I intentionally go toward them to get more interesting video.
Yes, God did make an amazing place for us here! I look forward to seeing the new place He is preparing for us, too! This world will not even be compatible!
That looked like quite the workout with all those heavy waves hitting you. Glad you were able to muscle through it. It was very noisy out there. Hopefully I will someday make it up that way to look for fossils and other cool rocks. I have learned a lot from watching your channel. I hope God keeps blessing you and Nancy. Much love to y’all ❤
The ride back took a little effort, but it was fun. Luckily the water wasn't too cold because it kept coming over the bow of the boat and soaking me.
Another great video! Thanks for Superior beach help. I leave Michigan Sunday heading back to North Carolina wishing I could stay a little longer. I have a huge pudding for my yard now. Will break out the power tools to polish up when I get back home. Thanks Rob!
Awesome!
Awesome finds. The weathered gneiss boulders were off the charts!
Sorry you had a yard sale, glad you didn't get hurt.
Did I have a yard sale or did the kayak?
@@MichiganRocks People I used to kayak fish with called flipping a yard sale because your stuff can end up strewn about.
@@markattardo Yes, I understood the reference. The yard sale was when my kayak flipped without me in it. My slip on the rocks was a separate, non kayak related incident.
What a beautiful day and some pretty awesome pudfings
I enjoyed the day. I've certainly had better rock collecting days but just getting out on the water was fun.
Puddings come in alot of colors from black green pink purple brown and of course the classic off white. Great cool rocks.
I've never seen one that dark. I don't think I've ever seen one with green matrix either.
@@MichiganRocks there’s a picture chart of all the colors they can be with the quartz matrix it won’t let me post it here. Google pudding stone colors it shows them all in one photo. I’ve never seen a green one in person but one was posted on my Michigan rock group this year. I have several colors from Lake Huron.
@@CynthiaEmbry I'll see if I can find that. Thanks for telling me about it.
Rob, you were talking to Wild Kyle about an adjective with your name, including an alliteration.
RELAXING ROB
Any time I'm stressed, I just put on one of your rock hunting videos with the waves crashing in the background.
@@dawnettehunter6922 Several people have told me that they put on my video to go to sleep to. I don't know how to feel about that!
Really enjoy the kayak adventures. Thanks. Suzy
I think you'll like the one a couple weeks from now. I had a great kayak ride and got some really cool drone and underwater shots.
I like it that you name the rocks as you pick them up! Educational.
I try to when I know what they are. Unfortunately I can't do that for every rock.
I always tell people to check you out! Love Your Channel
Thanks!
Been following you for a while....especially like when you credit God with creating such a beautiful world. In these times, I personally needed the reminder. What a great view of Michigan I would otherwise never get to see. Thanks.
I thank God for the beautiful place he created and where I live in that creation every morning.
You are so lucky to live where you do! So beautiful!!
Yes, I try not to take where I live for granite.
@@MichiganRocks waa waa - good one, funny guy!! 😜
Yes, God gave us such beauty to enjoy. The nice is real pretty. The beach your on has some very beautiful rocks @ stones.
I really like gneiss, not for tumbling, but big boulders of it are usually beautiful.
Wow♥️♥️, it's so beautiful there..
There's such a variety of stones there.
I really love those huge boulders.
Nice place to kayak too.
What a variety of material on that beach. There is a LOT going on with the rock at 10:30. Those darker puddingstones could very well be from the Lorraine, just a different part of the formation.
I thought that one at 10:30 was just a really weathered gneiss. I had never seen a puddingstone with a matrix that dark. That one was really different. I gave it to some people back at the roadside park who were picking up rocks. They liked it.
Nice pudding stones! I hope you're ok after your fall. It's amazing how different the rocks are here in MN than in Michigan. It's always fun watching your rock hunting videos! Thank you for sharing! 😊
Oh, I didn't get hurt at all. I just dunked my camera trying to catch myself.
Good to see the kayak getting some use.
It's about time, huh?
Beautiful. The pink and black biggish rock was my fav. So sorry about the spectacular pudding stone. Glad you are fine. So true about the gift of earth. Thanks!
I wasn't at all upset to lose that. I find plenty of puddingstones.
Sooo nice to get out on the kayak again! 😊
I know. I had kind of a crazy summer and didn't get out nearly as much as I wanted to. I've been doing a little better the past few weeks.
You found quite a few good pudding stones. Also, all that gneiss was really nice! 😍🥰😇👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Indyana, you should know by now that all gneiss is nice!
I’m just dying here looking at all the amazing rocks you left behind! Great restraint my friend ;)
That took years of practice.
Lake Superior has tipped me over a time or two and so I know how it feels to get knocked over. This beach was exceptional for large beautiful rocks. Thanks so much for sharing your rockhounding with us. It makes me want to drive back up to Michigan and feel the breeze off the water and pick up incredible rocks!
The waves didn't get me, the slippery rocks did. Darn algae.
Very cool!!!!!
What a great day and place to Kayak. But with ricks likes those your gunna need a bigger boat 😂😂😂
I'll also need bigger arms.
Love seeing you out there.. Great video, beautiful scenery.. Stay Well and Thanks again for sharing
You're welcome, and thanks for watching!
Yes
What a nice trip👍so many beautiful rocks💕
Hope u didnt hurt urself when u falled and hope that ur camera survived the bath
I used that camera for the rest of the video, so it's fine. I didn't really fall completely, I caught myself but got a little wet and dunked the camera. No harm done.
Amen!
Your videos are why I fell in love with Michigan and agreed to move here from Tennessee. I saw you once a year ago walking with a guy and i was too shy to say hello 😂
Well that was silly. I like talking to people about rocks.
What a great beach to rock hunt on. I'm always amazed at the things God created on this planet! 😊
Yep, God does some good work.
Loving the Rocks
That huge boulder that you called nice would definitely look great in your garden
I know! I’d love to have that one.
Yes He did!
Siick ro©× round by yours 💯👏
Love it 💪👌
Great video and beautiful rocks and scenery and day!! Look like you had fun! Nice kayak!! Have a good day and weekend!
I had a great day. Lots of fun out there.
@@MichiganRocks looks like you did and great finds!! Have a good evening and weekend
Sir , I always love your videos relaxing and informative not to mention at times humorous :D
Like when I fall in the water or my kayak tips over? Too bad I didn't get either on video.
Awesome job you two.
Two? I think I was alone in this video.
3:25 I would turn that into a heart shaped pendant
You'll have to go find it first. I think that's the one that fell out of the boat.
Remember to celebrate “Collect Rocks Day” on September 16th! Head to the beach and grab some rocks. Should be a national holiday.
That's the first I have ever heard of that one. I thought maybe you were messing with me, but I looked it up, and it's a thing. I'll try to get out!
Good job ❤
I love puddingstones and they are different in different parts of the World. I noticed you used a special word for some of the ones you picked up. Was that a local "nick name"? Any way it was really fun and I was so impressed with the Rockery Sized Gniss specimens. Your rocks back there are older than ours out west where we have a wide variety of lava rocks. This video the pebbles were really nice and varied. Another of my favorites is Porphyry. We also have a variety of granite and gabbros. Our beaches can be completely sand as well. It all depends on the Winter storms. A favorite State Park where one year I loaded up with agates in mudstones eroded out of the banks is now just sand and Basalt rock. In fact the Ocean is reclaiming the park at an amazing rate. Thanks for the ride! (Impressive waves for a lake)
I don't have any special words for puddingstone. Puddingstone is the local nickname. Are you thinking of Gowganda tillite? That's another conglomerate, but not considered to be puddingstone here.
Those waves weren't big at all for the Great Lakes. They get much, much bigger. In fact, that area and the water in front of two other counties to the south is all part of the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. There are almost 100 shipwrecks that are protected in that area. This is on Lake Huron, but you've surely heard the song about the Edmund Fitzgerald. That was sunk near another beach I go to on Lake Superior. Here's a video showing an unusually big storm on Lake Superior at Marquette. The person who made the video did a pretty good job of showing the size of the place, but it's even more impressive if you've been there, which I have many times. ua-cam.com/video/JaIuK5mzImI/v-deo.html
@@MichiganRocks Yes it was Gowganda tillite and I will go check out what more Google may have to say about this. You'd think a Conglomerate would be a Conglomerate and Brecca's are also different than a Puddingstone. Fun, I loved yours. Sell me some to tumble LOL AND I also went and watched the link to the Storm and close call/Tragedy at Black Rocks. That's what happens here every Winter..Those waves in our big Hurricane like storms plus the King Tides can go clear over the parking lot areas and Hy. 101. There are always warnings posted and televised but the allure of the spectacular draws the foolish.
Oh my, thank goodness you and your equipment were fine after the fall. I have a pair of old shoes that have great treads. Didn't slip on rocks covered in gunk!
Oh, I was fine, I was just worried when the camera went under.
absolutely stunning! i can’t believe that 2 years ago i couldn’t have imagined this place exists
Have you been watching my videos for two years then? There are many places like this that exist. I think you'll really like the video coming out in two weeks. It was more beautiful and more interesting than this beach and I got some really great drone shots.
@@MichiganRocks something between 1 & 2 years. looking forward to the next vid. 🍿
Great spot and great rocks! ❤ I love the purple matrix pudding stones! Where did you launch your kayak? That is a great area! There are so many houses up and down that area with no access points that I have found. By the way, I have missed seeing your Secret Huron Beach videos this year.
The ladder just east of Grand Marais finally fell apart. I was there last weekend and they have 2 new ones.
There were no ladders at that spot near Grand Marais when I was there in June. It wasn't a problem to get back up though.
I launched my kayak at a roadside park south of Cheboygan.
Lotsa pudding stones, just not enough ‘pudds’ in ‘em. Sorry you lost that first one. 🙁
I thought about you while I was in rock heaven this summer. We traveled to the Isle of Iona in Scotland for a pilgrimage and the beach at St. Columba’s Bay had massive unakite boulders! And the geomorphic landscape of the beach acted like a huge rock tumbler, smoothing all the rocks into spheres, ovoids, and ellipsoids. You and Nancy really need to go there. 🏴
I would love to visit Scotland. Unfortunately it's a bit out of Michigan Rock's price range. There was a guy who used to post picture of tumbled Scottish agates on the Rock Tumbling Hobby forums. They were tiny but really awesome. Those were some of my favorite posts to read there. Unfortunately Photobucket changed their free tier policies and now there are watermarks on all the pictures. Here is one of his posts and you could find more by searching that site or looking at Ian's threads. forum.rocktumblinghobby.com/thread/70126/scottish-agates-march
@@MichiganRocks Wow! Those are gorgeous agates! I searched high and low but couldn’t find any agates. And my tour group had only so much patience for me as I stopped to pick up every rock I saw. And yes, Scotland isn’t a cheap trip - I saved for a while to be able to pay for it - but so very worth it. The views in the Hebrides and the Highlands, the amazing geology, and the historical sites where Celtic monks first established Christianity in Scotland made it hard to leave.
@@TinaHyde You're not making it any better by describing all the fun stuff I'm missing! Maybe some day.
I have a huge problem with motion sickness just watching your video makes me go bug eyed. Looks like it was a beautiful day to get accidently wet. Someday I will get up to your neck of the woods, I have been to lake superior hounding but not lake Michigan. Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
I'm sorry about the motion sickness. Nancy doesn't like some of my kayaking videos for the same reason.
@@MichiganRocks Not your fault, if I move my head back and forth it helps. 🤣😎
Amen to that!!
Beautiful kayak footage with awesome gneiss boulders. Sorry you lost the best pudding stone!
There are more puddingstones where that came from. Hopefully that makes someone else happy.
I enjoyed your journey today!!! God sure did make us a beautiful place to live!!!! Just gorgeous out!! Do you have anything with you in case of running into a bear, moose, elk, etc.???? I hope you are having a nice weekend!!! Take Care!! 🤗♥️👍
We have black bears here, that are not something that I worry about. I have never seen one while in the woods. I have seen a few from the car, but that's about it. We don't have any moose in the lower peninsula, and not many in the U.P. I have never seen one. I'd love to though. The only elk herd is in Atlanta Michigan. That's not very far from where I live, but I have never seen one of those either. To answer your question, I don't carry anything with me, and I'm not the least bit worried about any animals bothering me.
Yes, looked like a beutiful day and a beutiful beach. Not much Agats there?? Yes, I would liked to had some of those nice looking rocks too in my garden. By the way, how is your garden looking now? Have you decorated more with rocks back there??
My garden looks almost exactly like it did at the end of my landscaping video. Some of the ferns are dying back and no more rocks have been added. The only rocks I intend to add are on the path.
This video was on Lake Huron, which doesn't have Lake Superior Agates. Those can be found in Lake Superior and occasionally in Lake Michigan.
Woo-hoo Another Video!!! ( I was too lazy to type a lot :|)
I won't hold it against you if you don't comment. No pressure from me.
@@MichiganRocks I know.🙂
Good hunt... remember to dispatch the ones you got mercifully ;)
Love your videos... awesome way to start saturdays (yes, it's sunday, didn't get to it on time, my bad).
I usually torture them by slowly grinding off their skin. Now I feel bad.
🙋♀️❤ Great video! The lake was wild and beautiful! A moment of silence for that lost pudding stone.... It was such a pretty one! Did you fall when the kayak flipped over, or was that two separate incidents? I was just hoping you didn't bottom out on some of those boulders on the way back!
Two separate incidents. I wasn't in the boat when it flipped upside down. In fact, I have never flipped over a kayak while riding in it. My fall wasn't hard, just slipped on a rock and stuck the camera underwater trying to catch myself. No big deal since the camera survived.
Thanks for another great video! Sorry about the one that got away. Maybe a follower will find it as the extreme stash challenge.
I forgot all about doing a Stone Stash for this video. I haven't done one of those in awhile.
Thanks for another great video! Have you ever cut open a not so good pudding stone to see if it's any better inside?
Yes, but most often they're about the same on the inside as the outside.
@13:20 The Hedgehog Stone
It wasn't as picky as I expected.
😍😍😍
You’re gonna need a bigger boat 😊
I know! Can you please explain that to Nancy?
Keep wondering if the big rocks are glacial erratic stones...deposited by long gone glaciers???
Yes, they are. The bedrock in this area is limestone.
Oh Man! … The one that got away…!
No problem, I'll find more another day.
Man, you make me want to run right up on there to Michigan!!! I'm jealous. 😊 It's just so wonderful there! I live in beautiful Colorado, but we don't have the awesome geology that you have in Michigan. Do you sell your wonderful stuff n things? If so, where please?
My wife and I went to Colorado a few years ago. You have a beautiful state, but I missed the water when I was there. I made a video showing some pendents that I made from rocks we got there and showed some video clips of our trip too. You might enjoy it. The rocks we got were awesome. ua-cam.com/video/wa4xfiXRLhg/v-deo.html
I don't sell polished rocks anywhere, but I do sell a few things at a local shop. I sell stone crosses, little turtles, guitar picks, beads that fit Pandora bracelets, heart shaped pendants, other pendants, and Christmas ornaments at that time of year. They don't have an online store, but will work with you if you call or email. olivetbookandgift.com
Why are pudding stones more prevalent on the Huron side? I just learned about them in 2018, and when visiting this same area I found a bunch.
They came here from the Lorainne formation in Canada via glaciers. The source is almost directly north of here in Ontario and I think the path of the glacier and the proximity to the source is why we have more.
Here's a thought, Rob, why dont you tell the people of your page just how unpredictable Lake Superior can be, and tell them about the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, I know all about it because my Husband often sings the song, I just thought it would be something a little different? Get yourself a little net bag and attach it to your kayak for your little rocks so you dont lose any in future lol, keep up the good work xxx
I did something a little bit like that in a video I recorded this week. You'll get to see it in couple weeks.
Can you look for sea glass and tell us where to go to find the sae glass just in case you don’t know you would need a sand softer with small wholes
I occasionally find beach glass, but it's not something I look for. I think it's on most beaches, but a little more common near more populated areas. I can't really recommend any particular beaches since I rarely pick it up.
hey Rob…barring any transportation issues due to size & weight, is it legal to remove the gargantuan rocks?
No, it's not at all legal.
@@MichiganRocks 😒
You need a bigger boat for that rock🤣🤣
I know!
I dropped my phone in a bucket of water at work. I pulled the battery and dried it out. I then put it back together. Amazingly it turned right on without any obvious effects. Just then the phone rang. I picked up and it was my friend who sounded confused. He ended up in hysterics laughing. Apparently the microphone was full of water and was making me sound like Mickey Mouse. 😊
That's funny. I never heard of a phone doing that. My camera never actually got wet inside, but I was worried that it had.
Your videos are always great...Are there any animals in the forest behind?
I don't know what was there as I was walking by, but we have plenty of animals around here. I live on a one acre lot just outside of Alpena. We are practically in town. I''ll list all the animals that I can think of that we have seen in our yard:
Mammals: deer, cottontail rabbit, fox, mink, red squirrel, black/gray squirrel, chipmunk, mouse, shrew, longhorn steer (escaped from local slaughterhouse), porcupine, possum, raccoon, muskrat, ermine, skunk, bat. We can often hear coyotes at night and our neighbor right across the road had a black bear in the yard about a year before we built our house.
Interesting birds, besides little songbirds. Some of these were seen flying over rather than actually landing in the yard: turkey, pileated woodpecker, ruffed grouse, sandhill crane, loon, scarlet tanager, bald eagle, Canada goose, great horned owl, mallard duck, and many others.
Reptiles and amphibians: garter snake, hognose snake, milk snake, salamander, five lined skink, painted turtle, snapping turtle
We also have other animals around including badgers, woodchucks, bobcat, and more stuff in the upper peninsula, including pine martin, moose, beaver, otter, fisher, and wolves, and even a few mountain lions. Oh, and there's an elk herd near here in the lower peninsula.
I'm surely missing some interesting animals, but that's a lot of what might be found in the places I hunt rocks. I'm not concerned about any of these critters attacking me, with the exception of mountain lions. Those are somewhat new to our state and I wish they weren't here.
My mom has a leegol tumbler that keeps shredding belts. Is there anything I can do to fix that?
That's the same as the Harbor Freight tumbler. That's a common complaint about both. I have never used one, but I have read that very carefully aligning the pulleys is important and may help.
I was a tad south of Cheboygan today with my wife. Would you be willing to share where you were exactly?
I started at the Huron Shores roadside park and paddled north.
I would keep all that you throw lol. But I guess you'd just end up with too much at home. Lol
Yep, I don't see any reason in having more rocks at home than I can do something with.
Много красивых камней, но их вес не дает набрать их побольше.
There are a lot of beautiful stones, but their weight prevents you from gaining more.
I try not to take more than I can polish or make something out of.
Hello, teacher, how can we recognize precious stones?
I just pick up what I like. Those are the ones that are precious to me. If you want videos on how to identify rocks, I have a couple good ones with two geologists who are great teachers.
Lake Superior Rocks: ua-cam.com/video/lWTgUbdccJE/v-deo.html
Lake Huron Rocks: ua-cam.com/video/F_t4LC13utM/v-deo.html
Chocolate pudding stone
Hey, I never thought of that!
A great mental health day.
Walking sticks
Aren't pudding stones worth money
Yes, a little bit. I don’t sell them though. They’re not worth tons of money or anything.
Smashing Adventure - the Lakes are great, aren't they? Sad for folk having to live in town. Happy paddling!
They're super great!