I'm glad you found the links. I'm not sure how many people look at them because I get a lot of questions that are answered right in my video descriptions.
The round ones are called concretions. I did a video last summer about Sulphur Island near Alpena. There is a lot of shale on the beach there, but it's broken up pieces, not a wall like in this video. At one end of the island, there are concretions, but they're smaller than the ones here. ua-cam.com/video/HG010H7U0lc/v-deo.html
Very nice trip. When you passed the first large round rock formation I thought that's cool but when you passed second I thought please stop and look because they were very odd . Thank you for sharing👍
@@MichiganRocks Would of been nice to tell your viewers if you know why, or how those large rock formations are round, and if you don't know how they are formed, to at least tell your viewers that too.
@@PipeMan1792 I don't know a ton of geology. I'm more interested in finding rocks to tumble or make something out of. It's one of my many winter goals to learn some more geology. I don't mind admitting when I don't know something, but I don't really want to fill my videos with constant statements about my ignorance. I don't think most people want to hear that. There have been plenty of times where I have admitting to not knowing though. Here's the wikipedia entry on concretions: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concretion
I really, really liked that kayak trip. Seeing the shale outcroppings was awesome ! It was interesting how most of the outcroppings were jagged and fractured and then there were places where it was just as smooth and flat as could be. The vertical streak was interesting too. You would think that it would be horizontal rather than vertical. The concretions were cool too. I’d never seen anything like that before. Thanks for taking us along !!!
ALWAYS enjoy your videos! I recently found quite a bit of beautiful banded chert on the northern shores of Mackinac Island and what I think is some sort of an interesting agate? -it has a crazy lace pattern in it, a perfect tiny black outline of a circle and a part that has a clear translucency with a tiny geode in the middle of it. Thanks to you I now have a better trained eye! We may have lucked out though because no one was rock hunting but us. 😁
Those are the best places to go rock hunting. There aren't usually agates in Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, except something called a cold water agate. Cold water agates form in limestone rather than in basalt like Lake Superior agates. I don't know much more about them.
Thank you for taking us all along. Such a beautiful area. Finally found our way into the two hearted river campground, full up but walked the beach for a while. Found some nice keepers too. Will be visiting there again for sure when I'm able to.
Amazing how the rock formations looked eerie and beautiful at the same time.....got some pretty rocks...and I loved the banded stone that looked more like wood than stone...thanks for the awesome kayak ride !! Made my day !
I ended up leaving that big banded chert behind. It looked pretty bad when it dried off. Sometimes chert is sort of decayed, if that's a word that can be applied to rock. This looked more like sand stone when it dried off.
I really enjoy getting out in my kayaks. I bought mine used through Craig's List. There's not much to wear out on them, so you can save some money by buying used and there's not a lot of downside.
My folks used to have a house on the water about a half mile south of Norwood Beach Park. You kayaked right passed their house. We used to find marble sized pyrite balls out front of their home along the rocky beach right where the Antrim Shale and waterline met. With the current high water levels they would be hard to find today. Thanks for sharing this video. I miss Norwood!
Lovely day and interesting trip. Really cool outcroppings and that water color is gorgeous ~ cool rocks as well. I think I got some of the blue chert, and definitely that blackish purple host rock (chert?) with blue quartz in it. Tumbled well.
Not sure. The host rock with quartz did (although now I need to take a macro shot ~ with the loupe I may be seeing bands). I need to find the blue chert now and queue it up for tumbling.
@@MichiganRocks lol I quest for everything really but in my area there is lots of quartz material - chalcedony, agate, geodes, moss, jasper all kinds of volcanic stuff. I figured all that falls in the quartz category :) I love seeing what other people find in different parts of the world and I'm always learning so much!
Wonderful kayak trip. Loved the color of the water and your drone footage improves with every release. What an enjoyable excursion. That blue chert is certainly amazing -- hope you brought lots back to tumble. Thanks!
Beautiful, beautiful. I don't see that when I'm rocking on the beach. I found a really awesome piece of banded chert when I was there last week. Thanks for the trip
Good to see you out on your kayak again Rob. Those shale cliffs were amazing, I was thinking if there were fossils in it but it looked clean. Love the blue chert rocks. Was a lovely trip out with you. Thank you.
I remember someone suggesting this place to you a few months back. One would not know it was there if it wasn't on Minedat. Thanks for taking us on a virtual tour. Stunning aerial scenery and great rock finds.
Fantastic camera work with the drone, sir! What a beautiful part of our big country. I would love to visit those lakes someday. I live near the Finger Lakes, which are beautiful too, but the big lakes are very different. Thanks! Oops, almost forgot...I love that blue banded chert. It sure would make some nice jewelry.
I like both inland lakes and the big lakes, but they are different. I’ll be tossing some of that blue chert in the tumbler so we can all see how it turns out.
Great video. First thing I want to mention is wow, that water is high!!! Last time I was there you could walk all the way from the park to the shale. Speaking of the shale, if you look close at those concretions, sometimes pyrite and marcasite can be found. The white streak; likely dolomite.
I don't have anything to compare to, other than Lake Huron beaches that also have really high water. This was my second or third time to the park, but first time going to the shale. Do you have any idea what the light blue/gray layer is near the bottom of the first shale outcropping I paddled up to?
@@MichiganRocks Probably a calcareous shale containing calcium carbonate, along with some alteration over time. They can tell us a lot about the depositional conditions of the Antrim Shale.
Thank you for another relaxing trip. I am amazed how beautiful it all really is and wish I could visit there one day. Sunday the 27th of September might be our final day of 90+ degree weather here in central FL so watching your videos has a cooling effect for me.
Yes, I thought it was a really pretty spot too. Did you see that one maple branch that had turned orange? Can you imagine how awesome that will look in full fall color?
Love that little park. Went there a lot with my mom. The view is awesome! Norwood is such a quaint little town. Shale is common in that area. There are shale pits not far from there in Ellsworth. That's for the quiet kayak trip.
OMG, I've been going to the west side of the state for 50 years and never knew about this beutifull stretch of Rocky shoreline! Thank you Rob for designating our next kayak trip /rock hunt !!😁 yeaaaaaaaaaa unbelievable how secret this place is almost like the pictured rocks just gorgeous 👍
Outstanding beauty.. awesome rock formations..Lake Erie is an hour drive north of me and doesn't have any cool rocks or rock formations like Lake Michigan or Huron does..thanks for sharing and takeing us along..😁
I didn't know about a lot of these places until recently either. I just learned about this spot earlier this year. I wonder if there are some cool spots on Lake Erie that you just haven't heard about yet.
@@captpaul8827 Farout..i just checked it out online..looks like an awesome place..incredable geologic features !! Looks like an perfect road trip..Kellys Island is about 3 1/2 hrs drive from me out there by Cedar Point..thank you so much for the heads up..sounds like a plan for my son and i..have a better one !!
I grew up going to this area, and have been there many many times. I have never seen anything like this. Antrim Shale, and the tire like detached sections? Wow! You're calling it an "incretion"? It is very cool. I loved the drone footage! Great video!
Hi Rob,.... watching the Norwood hunt I am surprised you did not see or mention the pyrite formations that are in the Antrim shale. I have dozens of samples . They are so pretty and range in sizes from 1/8th inch to 3 inches around.
@@MichiganRocks When you get to the concretions they are in that area. The sheets of slate have so many it is like the rocks are having a party !!!!!! I have photos and samples if you you like. They are not hard to find most people just are not aware.
@@debiyounce3210 If I go back, I'll be sure to look for them. When you said some are three inches, do you mean a whole cluster of pyrite crystals? You don't mean individual cubes are that big, do you? I think I would have noticed huge pyrite cubes, but I don't even know if they get that big. I bought my son a sample that probably has one inch cubes.
@@MichiganRocks Hi, I posted a few pics on my face book page "Deborah L Younce "and do not concern yourself with posting any thing on my page. You can see some of what I have gotten from there. Enjoying all of your adventures and love it when you take Nancy. Cousin Carol and I love the adventures. Glad we found you.
Hi what a wonderful place...great vid as always..thanks for sharing with us.🙄🐾 I think maybe the round concretions at 6.04 are Septarian Nodules and would have veins of quartz crystals/calcite/pyrite through them..We have them here in UK on the Jurassic coast especiaĺly in the Kimmeridge Clay..😊🐀
Septarian nodules are not the same as concretions. There are septarian nodules or lightning stones in southern Lake Michigan, but I have not gotten down that way to look for them yet.
That was a beautiful location. A bit different from places that you usually go, because of the rock walls. The water was a pretty color. Right up there with Au Train. I thought that area was really beautiful too.
I've been trying to get to some new locations. I have a few Lake Michigan videos on the way, but I'm mixing them in with Lake Superior and Lake Huron videos.
Rob, the hex in Lake Michigan is typically a different species than what you find on the east side of the state. There are 5-6 common species and several more less common species to be found. But the species on the west side are generally different from those on the east side.
All I can say is wow! What an amazing place! I am curious about what is in the concretions are? What a gorgeous place. I would be there all day if I could, but it's probably dangerous to. What an island!! I want to move up there, it's so beautiful, I would be totally in my element even though I am from the desert but those rocks are amazing!
I loved the water, it was so beautiful and blue 💙. I thought the Antrim Shale was really cool too. I also loved the drone footage, and i especially enjoyed all of the wonderful stones you found. What's the little greenish looking stone at 17:05?😍🥰😇💜
@@Indyanas_ocean_view I found some, but not as many as I find in Lake Huron. I didn't bring many home at all. That's not a bad thing though, you know how selective I am about what I bring home.
Hello just wanted to mention I showed pics to the Michigan Rocks and minerals facebook page and they believe the crystals to be a sulphide. They say it is pyrite because it is brittle. You should plan another trip there.
@@MichiganRocks I bet you will. Will be fun to see you discover it all. Sure wish I knew a good way to clean all of the shale/slate off the crystals. Should you ever want to check some Out I would be happy to mail you some.
Michigan Rocks I’m retiring when this job is over. Petoskey hunting, with some pudding stone, agate and chert added to my list will ensue next year, thanks to your teachings! Look for my cool new shirt!
I do the same at the office ~ put these videos on loop and love hearing the gentle waves. Perfection! I live along Lake Huron, and I can tell you the crashing waves that carry on for four or five days, usually with high stormy winds, become obnoxiously loud and annoying. Gimme a break!
@@KelJayP Gentle lapping is nice, but pounding waves can be really loud. I have never lived on the big lake, but I grew up on an inland lake (Hubbard Lake). I have been rock hunting on pretty windy days when it's just loud the whole time.
What a perfect paddle. On land on the water and soaring. Have you ever done any knapping of that chert? Haha I'd only watched part of this when i commented, and then you mentioned knapping.
One of our favorite places to go rock hunting is Rex beach. Did u go there? It is a tad south of where u were at. Are the blue rocks u found, Lelanaue blue stones? We also like to rock hunt in gravel pits in the Charlevoix area. I'm sure I'll eventually dig up a dinosaur. LOL!
@@MichiganRocks Yes it is. I did not know that until I just googled it. I was born in Charlevoix and grew up in that area. The locals always referred to it as Rex beach. So much for reading signs! Fisherman's island was, Bell's bay, the cement plant was Medusa. For a college geology class field trip we went to the gypsum mines near Grand Rapids. Wondering if you've ever been there? That was like a gazillion yrs ago. It might not even be there anymore. Thanks, love all ur videos!!
@@vegan4life302 I don't get to the Grand Rapids area very often. I have never hunted rocks in southern Michigan at all. I have video from Rex beach, but I haven't edited it yet.
Our son and his family live with us which is a blessing but since the lock down my daughter-in-law has had to work from home, which she didn't like at all. I had to stop tumbling because she needed the basement. So I stopped tumbling.... such a bummer although I am happy she wasn't laid off. I stopped tumbling and pretty much stopped picking rocks as I don't have the room to store them all. I have put so many outside. But yesterday she told me she is going back to work M-F starting on Monday. So happy for her as she misses her friends at work and so great for me. So hard to still walk these beaches every couple of day but TRYING NOT TO LOOK DOWN OR GET DOWN ABOUT NOT LOOKING DOWN.
I was surprised that you picked up the flint / chert. Have you seen the buildings in Norfolk and Suffolk in the east of England? They are made from flint rocks.
I got the drone for Christmas, but then with the pandemic, it took me until June to get my certificate to legally fly it for UA-cam videos. I was flying it.
Was wondering, in the summer do people go to these beaches and swim ?? Because that water is so pretty. Im so addictive to your Chanel..thank you...im thinking maybe go looking for rocks.
Yes, people swim in the Great Lakes a lot. I'm not sure how much swimming goes on on this beach, but other beaches are very popular. You do have to be careful though. There are some places that have dangerous undertows and people do drown. I'm going to put a link to a video showing people swimming in Marquette, then it switches to a huge storm from a few years ago. I think there were three people who got too close and drowned. Just down the road from this spot, there is a roadside park with an island just off shore. There have been many people who have drowned trying to swim to that island because of some currents in the area. It doesn't look the least bit dangerous, either. The spot in this video is usually safe to swim at though. ua-cam.com/video/JaIuK5mzImI/v-deo.html
I was wondering if those concreshions would have a fossil inside? The only reason I ask is because I saw a video and the concreshions looked just like those and they had Hugh fossils in them.
I've mentioned it before but... HaHa... I live close to Fundy Bay Canada where we have big tides. Because the tides get so high most of the time the rocks near the water line are covered. So when the tide is out and I am picking rocks I take the rocks that interested me enough to pick up and toss them as far up the beach, away from the water so other people can pick those rocks when the water is too high... I must look kind of goofy picking up rocks and throwing them up the beach.
I have never experienced tides. It seems really strange to me. I have seen videos of people picking rocks in that area. I think that's where @rockhounding life hunts.
@@captpaul8827 I agree. I have come close a few times. I seldom forget to check the tide times but have gone out without checking and had to turn back because of the tide. Tides are powerful and scary. I remember in the 80s we were at Fundy Park with our son and one of his friends. We were stuck or anything but we stopped to tie one of the boy's shoes and in the time it took to sit on a rock and get your shoe tide and the tide was around our feet. We weren't even thinking of it at that time and didn't know the tide times. We were not in danger that day I realized how fast the tide moves.
I haven't found any, but they are found. I don't know of anyone around here who actively searches for Native American artifacts, and I don't really know how to go about it myself. My brother in law found an arrowhead at his deer camp last year. It was in perfect shape.
Soil accumulates at about 1" every 100 years, so that 6' of soil is 7200 years old at the bottom. That's why soul erosion is so disastrous. The deforested moors near me have lost 3' of soil in 10 years :(
I don't know if you have seen this site for michigan rocks, but, I find it much easier to read and understand what some of the rocks I find are. These are just the basic rocks found mostly on lake mowlcation.com/stem/Lake-Michigan-Beach-Stonesichigan, but think some are on the lake huron side to. owlcation.com/stem/Lake-Michigan-Beach-Stones I'm going to lake superior in oct. whitefish point. Hope to find some rocks there again. I have been going up every oct. since 2001. My sons one to MTU and other to Lake State. so go up on Laker day events usually. take a look at the sight, maybe you already know all these, but, if your a teacher you can always learn a little more.
I don’t think I have seen that site before. I have seen similar ones, but I really like this one. I do question whether the last rocks on the list are agates though. There’s no banding and they just look like quartz to me. I also find it strange that plain old quartz is not in the list. Either way, thanks for the link. I’ll be bookmarking it.
One of your links didn’t work and I think I just found the page. It has the quartz that was missing from the other page. I think I have seen this one before. owlcation.com/stem/I-Found-A-Pretty-Rock-On-The-Beach-And-Wondered-II
I was just looking over the second page and found another really bad error. The author has pictures of concrete and asphalt that she has identified as conglomerate or puddingstone. This is disappointing because it makes me doubt everything else on the site. She has some excellent pictures and seems to really know her stuff, except these are glaring errors. Even though I’m criticizing this part of her article, she has way more knowledge than I do. I think I’ll still study these pictures and read the page more thoroughly because I think I’ll still learn something.
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Loved the rock formations. Isn't nature wonderful. Thanks for taking us along.
It sure is. I love rocky outcroppings like this.
The color of the water is incredible. And I love hearing the waves. This was a lovely outing. Thanks for taking us along!
I hit the like button before even watching it. I love to go kayaking with you.
I think everyone should do that. Thanks!
Me too. 😀
It's so relaxing listening to the waves. What a beautiful area. Thank you.
It's pretty relaxing floating on them too. I really enjoyed this spot.
Thank you!! I love to see all the polished rock's & see what else you get from the rock hunting ....
Dannie Munoz ... I love rock hunting I'm a big fan of yours...
I have a batch of rocks from Michigan tumbling right now and I'll throw these in. You'll see them one of these days.
I have some questions about jade I found.. Get back to me please...D....
@@flowerscordes7857 I don't know much about jade.
Thanks for the ride, I didn’t even get sea sick. Love the banded chert.
Congrats on keeping your dinner down.
Beautiful kayak area. A leisurely rock hunt. Beautiful blue chert. 💙
The beautiful sounds of the waves hitting the shore was mesmerizing and so soothing.
Beautiful scenery along those shale cliffs. And thanks for the wiki entry about the shale and the Mindat entry about the location. Those are helpful.
I'm glad you found the links. I'm not sure how many people look at them because I get a lot of questions that are answered right in my video descriptions.
Beautiful rock formations! Thanks for sharing this with us!
some of my favorite stomping grounds... nice to see... thx for sharing
Nice place, isn’t it? Glad you enjoyed the video.
What a gorgeous place!!! The shale formations. Have never seen the round ones before!!
The round ones are called concretions. I did a video last summer about Sulphur Island near Alpena. There is a lot of shale on the beach there, but it's broken up pieces, not a wall like in this video. At one end of the island, there are concretions, but they're smaller than the ones here. ua-cam.com/video/HG010H7U0lc/v-deo.html
Hope to see some more videos like this before the weather is getting too cold, I really love MI. Thank you
I have quite a few from all summer stockpiled to get us at least part way through winter.
Very nice trip. When you passed the first large round rock formation I thought that's cool but when you passed second I thought please stop and look because they were very odd . Thank you for sharing👍
Hey, I did what someone wanted for a change! Usually I pass up some cool rock or throw too many back. Good to know I occasional do the right thing.
@@MichiganRocks Would of been nice to tell your viewers if you know why, or how those large rock formations are round, and if you don't know how they are formed, to at least tell your viewers that too.
@@PipeMan1792 ??💥😕??Septarian Nodules I think..👀
@@mazcats66silver34 Septarian nodules are concretions from what I understand, but I don't think these particular concretions are septarian nodules.
@@PipeMan1792 I don't know a ton of geology. I'm more interested in finding rocks to tumble or make something out of. It's one of my many winter goals to learn some more geology.
I don't mind admitting when I don't know something, but I don't really want to fill my videos with constant statements about my ignorance. I don't think most people want to hear that. There have been plenty of times where I have admitting to not knowing though.
Here's the wikipedia entry on concretions: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concretion
Really enjoyed the shale outcroppings. The boulders were very cool.
Yep, I liked the shale and the concretions the best too.
Great variety, from the drone to the kayak to the close up shots of the chert. First time I’ve seen the shale formations. Thanks for the show!
Thanks David. This was my first time too. Very cool spot.
I really, really liked that kayak trip. Seeing the shale outcroppings was awesome ! It was interesting how most of the outcroppings were jagged and fractured and then there were places where it was just as smooth and flat as could be. The vertical streak was interesting too. You would think that it would be horizontal rather than vertical. The concretions were cool too. I’d never seen anything like that before. Thanks for taking us along !!!
I had never seen anything like it before that trip either. I really enjoyed that ride.
when the water was lower i hiked all along the shores at Norwood. we still go there every year to the park.
Someone else also said that you could walk all the way when the water was low. Still nice if you have a boat.
ALWAYS enjoy your videos! I recently found quite a bit of beautiful banded chert on the northern shores of Mackinac Island and what I think is some sort of an interesting agate? -it has a crazy lace pattern in it, a perfect tiny black outline of a circle and a part that has a clear translucency with a tiny geode in the middle of it. Thanks to you I now have a better trained eye! We may have lucked out though because no one was rock hunting but us. 😁
Those are the best places to go rock hunting. There aren't usually agates in Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, except something called a cold water agate. Cold water agates form in limestone rather than in basalt like Lake Superior agates. I don't know much more about them.
Thank you for taking us all along. Such a beautiful area. Finally found our way into the two hearted river campground, full up but walked the beach for a while. Found some nice keepers too. Will be visiting there again for sure when I'm able to.
Glad you made it to the Two Hearted campground. I have found some nice stuff there. It's now on my annual list of places to go.
Thank you for sharing your wonderful trip, God bless!
I'm glad to share. Not everyone can get here, so at least they can watch the video.
Lovely scenery. Particularly enjoyed seeing the shale formations.
The shale was by far my favorite part of this kayak ride.
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Thank you so much for taking us along 🤗
Very enjoyable.
Blessings to you and yours 🙏
You're welcome Irene. Thanks for coming back week after week to watch.
Amazing how the rock formations looked eerie and beautiful at the same time.....got some pretty rocks...and I loved the banded stone that looked more like wood than stone...thanks for the awesome kayak ride !! Made my day !
I ended up leaving that big banded chert behind. It looked pretty bad when it dried off. Sometimes chert is sort of decayed, if that's a word that can be applied to rock. This looked more like sand stone when it dried off.
Watching your videos is making me look for kayaks, lol! Thank you for your videos, I love them!
I really enjoy getting out in my kayaks. I bought mine used through Craig's List. There's not much to wear out on them, so you can save some money by buying used and there's not a lot of downside.
@@MichiganRocks Thank you! I will definitely look into that :)
So beautiful!
Thanks for taking us along on your paddle along that beautiful shore!
Glad you liked it, Laura.
My folks used to have a house on the water about a half mile south of Norwood Beach Park. You kayaked right passed their house. We used to find marble sized pyrite balls out front of their home along the rocky beach right where the Antrim Shale and waterline met. With the current high water levels they would be hard to find today. Thanks for sharing this video. I miss Norwood!
Pyrite balls sound like a fun find. Next time I go, maybe I'll bring my mask and snorkel.
enjoy your kayaking adventures. Even when your not picking rocks
I picked a few.
Lovely day and interesting trip. Really cool outcroppings and that water color is gorgeous ~ cool rocks as well. I think I got some of the blue chert, and definitely that blackish purple host rock (chert?) with blue quartz in it. Tumbled well.
Does the blue chert stay blue after tumbling it?
Not sure. The host rock with quartz did (although now I need to take a macro shot ~ with the loupe I may be seeing bands). I need to find the blue chert now and queue it up for tumbling.
Beautiful footage! It was great going along with you. Love the petoskey stone!
So you quest for limestone too? This place is really pretty.
@@MichiganRocks lol I quest for everything really but in my area there is lots of quartz material - chalcedony, agate, geodes, moss, jasper all kinds of volcanic stuff. I figured all that falls in the quartz category :) I love seeing what other people find in different parts of the world and I'm always learning so much!
@@questingforquartz3407 Yep, that's a lot of quartz.
Wonderful kayak trip. Loved the color of the water and your drone footage improves with every release. What an enjoyable excursion. That blue chert is certainly amazing -- hope you brought lots back to tumble. Thanks!
I only brought two or three pieces. I'll throw them in the tumbler.
Beautiful, beautiful. I don't see that when I'm rocking on the beach. I found a really awesome piece of banded chert when I was there last week. Thanks for the trip
I have tumbled some of that chert. Nice stuff.
Perfect vid for my Saturday morning coffee. I’m diggin the drone work too. Cheers! Have a nice weekend!
Yeah, the drone has been a blast.
Nice that you were the only one on the beach!!
That's always nice. I really don't like hunting on beaches with a bunch of people on them.
I hope to make it to Michigan one of these years. looks beautiful and so many great rocks too. Great video.
It is a very beautiful state. I love living here.
What lovely trip this was ! Those natural stone walls are awesome ! Love the blue stones you found 😍👍
I really liked that rock wall. I don't have anything like that near me, so this was a special treat.
Good to see you out on your kayak again Rob. Those shale cliffs were amazing, I was thinking if there were fossils in it but it looked clean. Love the blue chert rocks. Was a lovely trip out with you. Thank you.
I found fossils on the beach, but I didn't see any in the shale.
I remember someone suggesting this place to you a few months back. One would not know it was there if it wasn't on Minedat. Thanks for taking us on a virtual tour. Stunning aerial scenery and great rock finds.
I was glad to be told about it, because I sure wouldn't have known enough to go find it on my own.
💗💗 foot still down thankyou 😊 miss the lake
Fantastic camera work with the drone, sir! What a beautiful part of our big country. I would love to visit those lakes someday. I live near the Finger Lakes, which are beautiful too, but the big lakes are very different. Thanks! Oops, almost forgot...I love that blue banded chert. It sure would make some nice jewelry.
I like both inland lakes and the big lakes, but they are different. I’ll be tossing some of that blue chert in the tumbler so we can all see how it turns out.
Great video. First thing I want to mention is wow, that water is high!!! Last time I was there you could walk all the way from the park to the shale. Speaking of the shale, if you look close at those concretions, sometimes pyrite and marcasite can be found. The white streak; likely dolomite.
I don't have anything to compare to, other than Lake Huron beaches that also have really high water. This was my second or third time to the park, but first time going to the shale.
Do you have any idea what the light blue/gray layer is near the bottom of the first shale outcropping I paddled up to?
@@MichiganRocks Probably a calcareous shale containing calcium carbonate, along with some alteration over time. They can tell us a lot about the depositional conditions of the Antrim Shale.
@@captpaul8827 Thanks Paul.
Totally enjoyable.... thank you.
You're welcome!
Thank you for another relaxing trip. I am amazed how beautiful it all really is and wish I could visit there one day. Sunday the 27th of September might be our final day of 90+ degree weather here in central FL so watching your videos has a cooling effect for me.
This isn't in the U.P. It's on the west side of the lower peninsula in Lake Michigan.
The place where you docked the Kayak, is very breathtaking. Definitely inspiration for photography, sketching, or painting💖💖💖
Yes, I thought it was a really pretty spot too. Did you see that one maple branch that had turned orange? Can you imagine how awesome that will look in full fall color?
@@MichiganRocks oh, I have to look for that, what is the time that it appears? I love fall🍁🍃🍂
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@@MichiganRocks yes, orange is one of my fav colors, lovely
Love that little park. Went there a lot with my mom. The view is awesome! Norwood is such a quaint little town. Shale is common in that area. There are shale pits not far from there in Ellsworth. That's for the quiet kayak trip.
Yes, it is a cute little town. It's not touristy like so many other towns on Lake Michigan.
OMG, I've been going to the west side of the state for 50 years and never knew about this beutifull stretch of Rocky shoreline! Thank you Rob for designating our next kayak trip /rock hunt !!😁 yeaaaaaaaaaa unbelievable how secret this place is almost like the pictured rocks just gorgeous 👍
It’s a bit smaller than Pictured Rocks, but still really cool. Have fun paddling to it!
Mr. Fancy Pants goes to Lake Michigan. Loved the trip and views on that lake. 😘
Did you like my fancy pants? I had big flowers on them.
Thanks for the ride-a-long! Great videography!
Thanks, glad you liked it.
Outstanding beauty.. awesome rock formations..Lake Erie is an hour drive north of me and doesn't have any cool rocks or rock formations like Lake Michigan or Huron does..thanks for sharing and takeing us along..😁
I didn't know about a lot of these places until recently either. I just learned about this spot earlier this year. I wonder if there are some cool spots on Lake Erie that you just haven't heard about yet.
I don't know how close you are to Kelly's Island in Ohio, but there are huge glacial grooves carved into the bedrock.
@@captpaul8827 Farout..i just checked it out online..looks like an awesome place..incredable geologic features !! Looks like an perfect road trip..Kellys Island is about 3 1/2 hrs drive from me out there by Cedar Point..thank you so much for the heads up..sounds like a plan for my son and i..have a better one !!
I grew up going to this area, and have been there many many times. I have never seen anything like this. Antrim Shale, and the tire like detached sections? Wow! You're calling it an "incretion"? It is very cool. I loved the drone footage! Great video!
It’s a concretion. I need to speak more clearly.
Mas um bom lugar ,e um bom garimpo ,Michigan abraço.
Eu não fiz nenhuma panorâmica, mas encontrei algumas pedras legais.
Another lovely and informative video❤️
I really enjoyed this spot. I'm glad you did too.
Beautiful scenery cool video👍
That was a beautiful place. Glad you liked the video.
wonder what makes the water color greenish and milky? The sediment from the rocks grinding??? Super cool place
It seems to be like that wherever there is limestone.
What a beautiful place💖😍
Yes, it really was.
@1:21, You're walking like it's YOUR private beach👍🏾😁8:46Drone??
Just like I like it! Both of the times you mentioned were drone shots.
@@MichiganRocks excellent, thanks 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Hi Rob,.... watching the Norwood hunt I am surprised you did not see or mention the pyrite formations that are in the Antrim shale. I have dozens of samples . They are so pretty and range in sizes from 1/8th inch to 3 inches around.
This is the first I've heard of pyrite there. I would love to see that. Are they right where I was?
@@MichiganRocks When you get to the concretions they are in that area. The sheets of slate have so many it is like the rocks are having a party !!!!!! I have photos and samples if you you like. They are not hard to find most people just are not aware.
@@debiyounce3210 If I go back, I'll be sure to look for them. When you said some are three inches, do you mean a whole cluster of pyrite crystals? You don't mean individual cubes are that big, do you? I think I would have noticed huge pyrite cubes, but I don't even know if they get that big. I bought my son a sample that probably has one inch cubes.
@@MichiganRocks Hi, I posted a few pics on my face book page "Deborah L Younce "and do not concern yourself with posting any thing on my page. You can see some of what I have gotten from there. Enjoying all of your adventures and love it when you take Nancy. Cousin Carol and I love the adventures. Glad we found you.
@@debiyounce3210 I just scrolled through all of your pictures, but I couldn't find it. I did try though. Nice piece of Thompsonite you found though.
Hi what a wonderful place...great vid as always..thanks for sharing with us.🙄🐾 I think maybe the round concretions at 6.04 are Septarian Nodules and would have veins of quartz crystals/calcite/pyrite through them..We have them here in UK on the Jurassic coast especiaĺly in the Kimmeridge Clay..😊🐀
Septarian nodules are not the same as concretions. There are septarian nodules or lightning stones in southern Lake Michigan, but I have not gotten down that way to look for them yet.
I always wanted to learn knapping!
You should do it then!
That was a beautiful location. A bit different from places that you usually go, because of the rock walls. The water was a pretty color. Right up there with Au Train. I thought that area was really beautiful too.
I've been trying to get to some new locations. I have a few Lake Michigan videos on the way, but I'm mixing them in with Lake Superior and Lake Huron videos.
No worries. I love and enjoy them all. Thanks.
Rob, the hex in Lake Michigan is typically a different species than what you find on the east side of the state. There are 5-6 common species and several more less common species to be found. But the species on the west side are generally different from those on the east side.
Thanks Vic. Did you know there is one species called Alpenensis?
thanks for another awesome video👍
You're welcome, Sharon.
Wow you made it!
I did! Thanks for the tip. I really enjoyed this spot.
The place is very beautiful, I wish I am in this place 👍👍👍
I really enjoyed my little trip here.
All I can say is wow! What an amazing place! I am curious about what is in the concretions are? What a gorgeous place. I would be there all day if I could, but it's probably dangerous to. What an island!! I want to move up there, it's so beautiful, I would be totally in my element even though I am from the desert but those rocks are amazing!
I had a really nice time there. Those rock walls were really cool.
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The water sound was great. It’s been a long week. All the PPE wearing at work has been tough.
Thanks for having in there with the PPE. I'm glad I could relax you a bit with my video.
Very nice...Thank you
I loved the water, it was so beautiful and blue 💙. I thought the Antrim Shale was really cool too. I also loved the drone footage, and i especially enjoyed all of the wonderful stones you found. What's the little greenish looking stone at 17:05?😍🥰😇💜
No idea what the green rock was. That happens a lot with so much variety on the beaches.
@@MichiganRocks Cool , did you find lots of petoskey stones to take home?
@@Indyanas_ocean_view I found some, but not as many as I find in Lake Huron. I didn't bring many home at all. That's not a bad thing though, you know how selective I am about what I bring home.
@@MichiganRocks Awesome. 😍🥰😇💜👍🏻
Hello just wanted to mention I showed pics to the Michigan Rocks and minerals facebook page and they believe the crystals to be a sulphide. They say it is pyrite because it is brittle. You should plan another trip there.
Not Michigan rocks that is you....lol Great Lakes Rocks & Minerals....duh
Thanks, Debi. I would like to go back there sometime.
@@MichiganRocks I bet you will. Will be fun to see you discover it all. Sure wish I knew a good way to clean all of the shale/slate off the crystals. Should you ever want to check some Out I would be happy to mail you some.
@@debiyounce3210 Nah, it would be more fun to go back and find them myself. Thanks though!
@@MichiganRocks Well There you go,..... the discovery is always the best part of rock hunting. It is the bit of magic with these lovely beaches.
Lovely place
It was beautiful there.
Stuck at the airport again, speaker up to my ears, listening to the water. Thx!
Glad to help, Lynette. You sure fly a lot. I haven't flown in a plane in about 25 years.
Michigan Rocks I’m retiring when this job is over. Petoskey hunting, with some pudding stone, agate and chert added to my list will ensue next year, thanks to your teachings! Look for my cool new shirt!
I do the same at the office ~ put these videos on loop and love hearing the gentle waves. Perfection! I live along Lake Huron, and I can tell you the crashing waves that carry on for four or five days, usually with high stormy winds, become obnoxiously loud and annoying. Gimme a break!
Kel Used to live on 23 in Greenbush. Remember well the crashing waves; amazing. Miss it every day.
@@KelJayP Gentle lapping is nice, but pounding waves can be really loud. I have never lived on the big lake, but I grew up on an inland lake (Hubbard Lake). I have been rock hunting on pretty windy days when it's just loud the whole time.
What a perfect paddle.
On land on the water and soaring.
Have you ever done any knapping of that chert?
Haha I'd only watched part of this when i commented, and then you mentioned knapping.
I have not done knapping. I don't have a lot of interest in learning, but I'm impressed with those who can do it.
That's a pretty cool area.. love the various specimens. What was that reddish orange rock about 17 minutes in?
Thank you for sharing your experience.
I'm not sure what that was.
One of our favorite places to go rock hunting is Rex beach. Did u go there? It is a tad south of where u were at. Are the blue rocks u found, Lelanaue blue stones? We also like to rock hunt in gravel pits in the Charlevoix area. I'm sure I'll eventually dig up a dinosaur. LOL!
I went to the Antrim Creek Natural Area. Is that the same as Rex Beach?
@@MichiganRocks Yes it is. I did not know that until I just googled it. I was born in Charlevoix and grew up in that area. The locals always referred to it as Rex beach. So much for reading signs! Fisherman's island was, Bell's bay, the cement plant was Medusa. For a college geology class field trip we went to the gypsum mines near Grand Rapids. Wondering if you've ever been there? That was like a gazillion yrs ago. It might not even be there anymore. Thanks, love all ur videos!!
@@vegan4life302 I don't get to the Grand Rapids area very often. I have never hunted rocks in southern Michigan at all.
I have video from Rex beach, but I haven't edited it yet.
Our son and his family live with us which is a blessing but since the lock down my daughter-in-law has had to work from home, which she didn't like at all. I had to stop tumbling because she needed the basement. So I stopped tumbling.... such a bummer although I am happy she wasn't laid off.
I stopped tumbling and pretty much stopped picking rocks as I don't have the room to store them all. I have put so many outside.
But yesterday she told me she is going back to work M-F starting on Monday. So happy for her as she misses her friends at work and so great for me.
So hard to still walk these beaches every couple of day but TRYING NOT TO LOOK DOWN OR GET DOWN ABOUT NOT LOOKING DOWN.
I'm glad you finally get to start those tumblers rolling again!
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I was surprised that you picked up the flint / chert. Have you seen the buildings in Norfolk and Suffolk in the east of England? They are made from flint rocks.
Why were you surprised that I picked up chert? I did not know that the buildings in those cities were made of flint. That's cool.
@@MichiganRocks , It is very common here, and most is grey / white or brown.
I knew that was shale, good for fossil hunting, but were the big round things ammonites? There's no CC so I can't hear you. Thanks for the ride!
No, those were concretions.
There are very few fossils found in the Antrim itself.
@@captpaul8827 Bummer. They're full of fossils in the mountains here. Takes some work.
@@icatz Many shales do contain fossils (the Burgess Shale in Alberta is a famous one), but the Antrim contains very few.
ouuuuu! i love those fancy pants!
My Hawaiian flowered bathing suit? I've had that thing for years, I really need to get a new one.
I'm a bit surprised you've never been here before, it's one of the most beautiful areas in our entire country, I believe.
I have been to Norwood Park, just not to the shale outcropping.
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I've always liked this area,great specimens can be found. When did you get a drone?..and who's flying it?..cool vid!
I got the drone for Christmas, but then with the pandemic, it took me until June to get my certificate to legally fly it for UA-cam videos. I was flying it.
Oh,ur!!..cool!!!!!!!!
Cool!
Great video Rob!!! Very interesting finds!!!✅✅I posted your shout out video 6 days ago😁Keep making great vids friend!!!🏴☠️🏴☠️👍👍
Thanks for the shout out! Your Michigan rocks looked good!
Was wondering, in the summer do people go to these beaches and swim ?? Because that water is so pretty. Im so addictive to your Chanel..thank you...im thinking maybe go looking for rocks.
Yes, people swim in the Great Lakes a lot. I'm not sure how much swimming goes on on this beach, but other beaches are very popular. You do have to be careful though. There are some places that have dangerous undertows and people do drown. I'm going to put a link to a video showing people swimming in Marquette, then it switches to a huge storm from a few years ago. I think there were three people who got too close and drowned. Just down the road from this spot, there is a roadside park with an island just off shore. There have been many people who have drowned trying to swim to that island because of some currents in the area. It doesn't look the least bit dangerous, either. The spot in this video is usually safe to swim at though. ua-cam.com/video/JaIuK5mzImI/v-deo.html
@@MichiganRocks oh ok thanks..
Rob were heading to Norwood this weekend! You never said how far that shale wall was ?is it a long paddle from the park? 🤠thanks
It's not far at all. Probably a mile or less. I think you'll enjoy that spot, it's really nice.
@@MichiganRocks sweet thank you Ron
@@MichiganRocks Rob sorry 🧐
@@c.curtis1614 B and N are right next to each other on the keyboard. I type "Ron" myself sometimes.
@@MichiganRocks lol. Just got back from Norwood that was 👌. Thanks again Rob
I was wondering if those concreshions would have a fossil inside? The only reason I ask is because I saw a video and the concreshions looked just like those and they had Hugh fossils in them.
People have suggested that on another video I did with concretions in it. I wouldn't want to break them, though since they're so cool as they are.
I've mentioned it before but... HaHa... I live close to Fundy Bay Canada where we have big tides. Because the tides get so high most of the time the rocks near the water line are covered. So when the tide is out and I am picking rocks I take the rocks that interested me enough to pick up and toss them as far up the beach, away from the water so other people can pick those rocks when the water is too high...
I must look kind of goofy picking up rocks and throwing them up the beach.
I have never experienced tides. It seems really strange to me. I have seen videos of people picking rocks in that area. I think that's where @rockhounding life hunts.
We almost got caught by the tides at Joggins Fossil Cliffs in Nova Scotia while doing research. Not something to be taken lightly...
@@captpaul8827 I agree. I have come close a few times. I seldom forget to check the tide times but have gone out without checking and had to turn back because of the tide.
Tides are powerful and scary.
I remember in the 80s we were at Fundy Park with our son and one of his friends.
We were stuck or anything but we stopped to tie one of the boy's shoes and in the time it took to sit on a rock and get your shoe tide and the tide was around our feet.
We weren't even thinking of it at that time and didn't know the tide times. We were not in danger that day I realized how fast the tide moves.
@@captpaul8827 I love Joggin's. Wanted to go a couple of times this year but I live in New Brunswick and not eager to cross borders just yet.
I was just sitting in front of my rocks looking dumb. Lol
With all that shale, is there any coal in the area?
I don't think there is any coal in the area.
No coal in the Antrim; entirely different processes involved.
Wow that’s my last name Lol; great finds ❤️
Yes, it is. Fun!
I bet ; the water looks so calm and the sound is so soothing.
Do you ever find Native American artifacts up on the lakes?
I haven't found any, but they are found. I don't know of anyone around here who actively searches for Native American artifacts, and I don't really know how to go about it myself. My brother in law found an arrowhead at his deer camp last year. It was in perfect shape.
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Supposedly the natives got their chert etc from there for arrowheads and tools back in the day.
I heard the same thing.
Why you take the little rock out the puddle in the concretion?! WHY? 😭 They was frens. 😡 lol
It just seemed like it needed to be tidied up. Sorry.
Although I guess slate is more associated with coal.
Soil accumulates at about 1" every 100 years, so that 6' of soil is 7200 years old at the bottom.
That's why soul erosion is so disastrous.
The deforested moors near me have lost 3' of soil in 10 years :(
That's a shame that your moors are eroding. There's a lot of erosion along beaches here with the water level being so high.
I don't know if you have seen this site for michigan rocks, but, I find it much easier to read and understand what some of the rocks I find are. These are just the basic rocks found mostly on lake mowlcation.com/stem/Lake-Michigan-Beach-Stonesichigan, but think some are on the lake huron side to.
owlcation.com/stem/Lake-Michigan-Beach-Stones
I'm going to lake superior in oct. whitefish point. Hope to find some rocks there again. I have been going up every oct. since 2001. My sons one to MTU and other to Lake State. so go up on Laker day events usually. take a look at the sight, maybe you already know all these, but, if your a teacher you can always learn a little more.
I don’t think I have seen that site before. I have seen similar ones, but I really like this one. I do question whether the last rocks on the list are agates though. There’s no banding and they just look like quartz to me. I also find it strange that plain old quartz is not in the list. Either way, thanks for the link. I’ll be bookmarking it.
One of your links didn’t work and I think I just found the page. It has the quartz that was missing from the other page. I think I have seen this one before. owlcation.com/stem/I-Found-A-Pretty-Rock-On-The-Beach-And-Wondered-II
I was just looking over the second page and found another really bad error. The author has pictures of concrete and asphalt that she has identified as conglomerate or puddingstone. This is disappointing because it makes me doubt everything else on the site. She has some excellent pictures and seems to really know her stuff, except these are glaring errors. Even though I’m criticizing this part of her article, she has way more knowledge than I do. I think I’ll still study these pictures and read the page more thoroughly because I think I’ll still learn something.
I'll have to check these out later; sounds like "interesting" reads....
@@captpaul8827 I'd love to hear what you have to say about the stuff that I wasn't educated enough to find problems with. Is that book done yet?