This Popular Michigan Fossil Hunting Location is FULL of Incredible Fossils!

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  • Опубліковано 7 чер 2023
  • Back to one of my favorite fossil hunting locations, and the best thing is ANYONE can come hunt for fossils here at Rockport Quarry in Alpena, Michigan!
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  • @melissalease5476
    @melissalease5476 Рік тому +29

    And anyone not familiar with fossils could walk through there and not realize they’re walking over the fossils thinking nothing of it.

    • @billrobbins5874
      @billrobbins5874 7 місяців тому +1

      Beautiful area and fossils. 👍

    • @bacongod4967
      @bacongod4967 6 місяців тому

      Crazy but true

    • @bacongod4967
      @bacongod4967 6 місяців тому

      When i first started out, I couldn’t find anything, but now it’s impossible for me not to find anything

  • @megankimber8772
    @megankimber8772 Рік тому +4

    Hey, this is Megan…..This was so exciting! I’m glad you have some friends along with you to be able to share the fossil gleeee! You have been finding such rich, plentiful fossil 🎉places lately. I’m happy for you! And it helps me build up my Michigan bucket list…oooo yeah all about travel and fossils and pretty colored stones along the shore, me want LOT OF IT. DREAMING!!
    Planning to meet up with some people with similar interests and go from there. Toot toot!

  • @marybeth6272
    @marybeth6272 Рік тому +3

    Awesome!!! I love Petoskey rocks and fossilized corals. Excellent song too! Thanks for sharing it with us 😊Love Michigan ❤️ 😍 ❤

  • @catherinewilliams3850
    @catherinewilliams3850 Рік тому +6

    Just amazed at the quantity and quality of fossils, wish we had places like that here in Wales UK.Your videos are fun and educational, you have some great friends. You have a lovely voice, I like your music and Happy Birthday for tomorrow.

    • @abbywilson5988
      @abbywilson5988 Рік тому +1

      The UK has some of the most amazing fossils! Dorset is next door.

  • @cynthiaswearingen1037
    @cynthiaswearingen1037 Рік тому +9

    My goodness, so many fossils, so many different ones! Sweet finds, Kyle!!! I hope your mom is doing well!❤

  • @wenditaylor9708
    @wenditaylor9708 Рік тому +4

    This was fun!! So close to home! Some of those horn corals are perfect poop emojis! 💩
    Never stop being you! You are beautiful and you bring joy and adventure to people that can't do these things anymore! 😊

  • @shannonreynolds4423
    @shannonreynolds4423 Рік тому +2

    Thanks Kyle for being so full of light and love! I’ve learned quite a bit from you. You also have a wonderful singing voice I just learned. ❤

  • @JaneEllenMusic
    @JaneEllenMusic Рік тому +5

    Unfreakin'believable!!! I would never be able to drag myself away. Congrats on finding so many awesome fossils! 💙💙

  • @mariemoss2475
    @mariemoss2475 Рік тому +1

    Some of those corals look like little Wizards hats , what a beautiful place... another great video 💕💕💕💕

  • @melissajohnson1563
    @melissajohnson1563 Рік тому +2

    Happy Birthday Kyle! You share a birthday with my hero and the best man I have ever known, my dad. He would’ve been 80 today.
    Loved your song ‘This town is gonna swallow you whole’ makes me think of Gainesville haha!

  • @fionanorth1811
    @fionanorth1811 Рік тому +2

    Dear Kyle, a longtime ago, when I’d been a subscriber and enjoyed your videos for quite a while, I commented that while I enjoyed your presentations, sometimes you acted too much like a yahoo. That comment may have hurt at the time, and it certainly gathered some spirited defence from other followers. At the time I felt that sometimes your boyish enthusiasm overwhelmed your great content and knowledge, and unless we occasionally receive criticism, we might miss an opportunity to self evaluate.
    Any way, my comment today is that your videos, and the spirit that shows through them, is so lovely. No reasons to criticise now, I could probably even cope with an occasional reappearance of duckman, as I’m sure you know that your strength is not just in being a funny man.
    I’m also enjoying your music. Nice work.

    • @WILDKYLE
      @WILDKYLE  Рік тому +1

      Hi Fiona! This comment really means the world to me. Thank you. I appreciate your willingness to be honest. I'm glad to hear you've been enjoying the videos and my music! ❤️

  • @Catrina3732
    @Catrina3732 Рік тому +1

    This is so cool!!! Im from and live in west Michigan, and have basically spent my childhood collecting rocks. I lived right by a gravel pit, and I was content to do it all day long. Funny thing is, my father in law owned several gravel pits in the area. Small world sometimes. It’s fun to see what you can find in Michigan. Also, cool thing here, all you have to do is search your landscape rocks.
    Keep coming to Michigan! Love watching and learning from your videos!

  • @largent45
    @largent45 Рік тому +2

    You l had the most amazing time! Your finds were incredible! I hope you got a chance to collect a piece of that stromatolite. They are the coolest fossils! And the fossils you guys found at the beach were amazing too! What an amazing time! Thanks for sharing Kyle!

  • @icatz
    @icatz Рік тому +2

    There's an area in my state where at 7,000 feet you can be walking on nothing but agatized horn coral. The inland sea stretched down to northern AZ, 400-350 mya. It's a great feeling, isn't it, walking thru prehistoric times? TFS ❤️🎸🏏

  • @laurenconradie5328
    @laurenconradie5328 Рік тому +2

    Another wonderful video, Kyle. ❤Your videos are so soothing to watch after a long busy day. Happy happy birthday for tomorrow, I hope that it is a truly wonderful day for you. Michigan is on the bucket list so hopefully 1 day I can find meself some ancient treasures for my collection. 🤞

    • @WILDKYLE
      @WILDKYLE  Рік тому +1

      Thanks so much Lauren! I'm glad they can be enjoyable for you after a long day! Thanks for the birthday wishes!

  • @CretaceousCora
    @CretaceousCora Рік тому

    This is so cool! Looks like so much fun. Adding to my bucket list!

  • @paulbettenga6202
    @paulbettenga6202 Рік тому +1

    Great video Kyle! I love that there are so many really cool fossils in my state! I am also impressed with your musical talent. Reminds me of some of Chris Ledoux's slower ballads. Good stuff man! Keep it up!

  • @aletaarmstrong4340
    @aletaarmstrong4340 20 днів тому

    Loved the fossils,and the song. You have a beautiful voice..

  • @kellyharper367
    @kellyharper367 Рік тому

    Old disabled house bound dusty rusty rockhound here: I wish I was able to get out to that place...it looks like fossil heaven!

  • @joedadbod8450
    @joedadbod8450 Рік тому

    Great video, my friend! I have been finding very similar material in southwest Ohio recently before I just came back to Arkansas. It's so neat to hold history in your hands.

  • @lisa-fg8zh
    @lisa-fg8zh Рік тому

    Thank you, now I know what I found as a kid many decades ago near traverse city shoreline! My daughter still has in her china cabinet. So cool.😊

  • @xyzabc847
    @xyzabc847 10 днів тому +1

    I was there last month with the MMS and Paleo Joe. Found plenty of cool fossils.

  • @patriciabock4299
    @patriciabock4299 11 місяців тому

    Love the choice of your music! Great video!

  • @patscnr
    @patscnr Рік тому

    That is an awesome looking area. I love rocky areas like that. Really cool fossils.

  • @obieobrien5883
    @obieobrien5883 Рік тому +2

    I hope you send Rob from Michigan rocks, some of the raw hexagonaria

  • @dustinfindsrocks
    @dustinfindsrocks Рік тому +1

    I'm in love with that whatchamacallit tentacular? Super cool find! I've got to find a good fossil spot like that somewhere I know they're around Missouri. I've heard about lots of good road cuts around Springfield MO... Hopefully I'll find out soon! Safe travels Kyle! Love the song! You should put them in more videos!

    • @WILDKYLE
      @WILDKYLE  Рік тому

      Tentaculite! They are so cool! Glad you enjoyed the song man. I definitely want to put them in more vids!

  • @taleandclawrock2606
    @taleandclawrock2606 Рік тому

    Beautiful voice and tune, what a crooner! 😍🤩

  • @deniseveiw7992
    @deniseveiw7992 6 місяців тому

    Absolute beauty. Cool fossils. Michigan is a beautiful state. I've lived here ally life.

  • @melindahawk8540
    @melindahawk8540 Рік тому +1

    Another adventure through watching you! Hope your moms doing well.

  • @fossilswede
    @fossilswede 4 місяці тому

    Interesting and fun video as always! 👍👍

  • @robertl6196
    @robertl6196 Рік тому

    I haven't been here in 30 years. Glad to see it hasn't changed much if any.

  • @gloriamcdermott3174
    @gloriamcdermott3174 5 місяців тому +1

    Love the music at the end

  • @heidikoester
    @heidikoester Рік тому

    Oh wow, what a dreamy location! 😍 I live in Milwaukee, Wisconsin near Lake Michigan, but I don’t find as many spectacular Fossels like you are finding 🙂

  • @Ddelfossils
    @Ddelfossils 3 місяці тому

    Was out there earlier this month, found some fragments of boreolepis with my friend. Very cool site.

  • @markattardo
    @markattardo Рік тому +1

    Awesome hunt. Fun video👍👍

  • @laurieowen8696
    @laurieowen8696 Рік тому +1

    Sweet! Nice ending.

  • @marierowe5969
    @marierowe5969 Рік тому +1

    Love the fossils love u and your music ..keep going ...xxxx ...your vids are great .can't do fossil hunting like u do here in the uk

  • @nothingsnew184
    @nothingsnew184 8 місяців тому

    Müziksiz olması çok güzel olmuş bu video.Yürürken çıkan çakıl taşlarının sesi,çekiş sesi,hışırtı sesi gerçekten bir terapi.

  • @audraacklin9826
    @audraacklin9826 Рік тому +1

    Awesome tunes, man!! The fossils aren't bad either! ❤️❤️😃

  • @richconroy5559
    @richconroy5559 Рік тому +1

    To those of you playing the Wild Kyle Brachiopod Drinking Game(TM), you have my condolences for that bit right up front.
    It's going to be a tipsy video, everybody.

  • @mirkatu3249
    @mirkatu3249 Рік тому +1

    Fun! :-)

  • @kennypowers3984
    @kennypowers3984 Рік тому +3

    Kyle and the gang never disappoint. Love the videos. Also, you can sing your arse off!!! Did you win that competition?

    • @WILDKYLE
      @WILDKYLE  Рік тому +2

      I checked that the other day and apparently it is going until sometime in July! I'll make another post soon so folks remember to go vote more!

    • @kennypowers3984
      @kennypowers3984 Рік тому +1

      @@WILDKYLE Best of luck!! ⭐

  • @Jwaxx
    @Jwaxx Рік тому

    Happy Birthday Kyle!
    Happy hunting!
    ❤❤❤❤

  • @naomimakin1908
    @naomimakin1908 Рік тому +2

    Foldy rock😂 not heard it called that before, love it 🎉

  • @jackieforestieri3010
    @jackieforestieri3010 Рік тому

    Great voice, great song Kyle!

  • @Dino24563
    @Dino24563 Рік тому +2

    It's such a great location

    • @WILDKYLE
      @WILDKYLE  Рік тому

      Can't get enough of it!

  • @heathervannatter364
    @heathervannatter364 Рік тому +1

    Horn coral looks like the sorting hat from HP. 😊

  • @RayEllaHoover
    @RayEllaHoover Рік тому

    Cool fossils !!

  • @howardwest1347
    @howardwest1347 Рік тому

    Love the song!!

  • @peterszar
    @peterszar Рік тому

    We have a similar site just SW of the center of Buffalo, NY, located in Blasdell, NY, called the "Penn Dixie" site. Quite a few people go there fossil hunting, especially school field trips. It's in close proximity to the Lake Erie shoreline, I'd say 1 1/2 mile maybe, so there are plenty of marine fossils, i.e. Trilobite's, Brachiopods, Bryozoans ect. It's a cool place for fossil hunting

  • @margieblackburn8445
    @margieblackburn8445 Рік тому

    I always wonder what the world looked like in that time the fossils sure tell a story i love to know

  • @keithcunningham7925
    @keithcunningham7925 Рік тому

    Wow that is a great place I need to get out there more

  • @codypontzius1184
    @codypontzius1184 Рік тому

    Can't wait for you and paleo cris to come to Indiana

  • @chrisbgifford7387
    @chrisbgifford7387 Рік тому +1

    So all of this was under a glacier or the great lakes were more of a sea? They are some really amazing fossils you have found. I wish you could spell some of these fossils and the sea name. It makes it easier to armchair research. Happy birthday, I turned 60 this year, a new decade. future is exciting!

  • @janvafa9959
    @janvafa9959 Рік тому

    I have to say you have a fantastic voice!

  • @graemero5532
    @graemero5532 Рік тому +1

    Great video.

  • @Kk-md5xr
    @Kk-md5xr Рік тому +1

    Hey Kyle nice to see you back in MI.
    Did you attend Kyle Fair in Kyle TX last month?
    Your music would have been a perfect addition for all the Kyle's.

  • @overland.viking
    @overland.viking Рік тому +1

    Awesome video. Your explorations are always so interesting.

  • @BingShing
    @BingShing 5 місяців тому

    Did she say “sprinkle sprinkle” LOVE IT!!! #Shera

  • @lisacates4185
    @lisacates4185 Рік тому

    Your voice is awesome ❤🎉

  • @joannhempen8210
    @joannhempen8210 11 місяців тому

    Did u move from Florida? Did I miss something. Lol ❤ Thanks for all the amazing videos!!

  • @SandyFielding-cl4dc
    @SandyFielding-cl4dc Рік тому

    Hey Dude. We love Ur channel and my husband an I love Rock an fossil hunting and we've found crystal rocks and NO1 nos there there and we've picked up a lot of druzy crystal rocks. We think of y'all when we're out and would love 2 share the crystals. Haven't a way 2 get n touch with U but the crystals r all n the ditch and n the dirt rd. We spend hrs out there and the crystals shine like diamonds . Between Ga an Fla. Nutting spectacular but we have a ball everytime we go. Red clay sticky dirt rd. We've got awesome funds. Love U guys. Praying 4 y'all's safety and God bless. 🙂

  • @geoWhite
    @geoWhite Рік тому +1

    I enjoy your videos but I must say you have an amazing voice. take care

  • @athelwulfgalland
    @athelwulfgalland Рік тому

    As cool as this site is I still think I prefer the sheer variety of fossils you recover in Florida! :) Still it was a great hunt, thanks for sharing.

  • @astrialindah2773
    @astrialindah2773 4 місяці тому

    I really loved your video but wondered if you could be conscious of slowing down your camera...😜 I've been to that quarry many times and it is so much fun!

  • @calysta8439
    @calysta8439 Рік тому +1

    Pretty sure that orange spongy growth in the water was Xanthoria Lichen.

  • @patty4091
    @patty4091 10 місяців тому

    You all needed an ATV, if for no other reason to carry your lovely finds back! 😂

  • @karlaconroy2099
    @karlaconroy2099 8 місяців тому

    Reminds me so much of a couple quarry areas in Ohio and couple other spots near a river...I have been lucky over the last few decades .The weird stuff in the water in your video reminds me of something I saw near Lake Erie last year. It was yuck.

  • @eyupchuck1235
    @eyupchuck1235 Рік тому +1

    Why when I see the horn coral fossils do I always think of Patrick Star 😂 from SpongeBob (if you know, you know!) 😂😂

  • @jordanvanwinkle8950
    @jordanvanwinkle8950 Рік тому

    Kyle please take me and my husband with you the next time you go to this place,.
    Just kidding, not kidding, but seriously we love to find these types of fossils here in Adams County, Mississippi it's very rare to find the Petoskey coral but we do infact find them and also the Rugose corals, the crinoids and some times we find the horse teeth too. On a serious note we would love to go with you one day on one of your adventures to find the fossils that you show on your videos. Thank you for sharing them with us.

  • @andrewwong3825
    @andrewwong3825 Рік тому +1

    👍

  • @cosmicbackwoods
    @cosmicbackwoods Рік тому +1

    you got a nice singing voice my dude

  • @This_Time_Next_Year_Rodney
    @This_Time_Next_Year_Rodney Рік тому +1

    What do you do with all the horn coral you collect?

  • @valsummers5330
    @valsummers5330 Рік тому

    Sweet! Rock hunting and
    Love the shameless self promotion!
    Beautiful song

  • @brandonmyers4078
    @brandonmyers4078 Рік тому +3

    Mr Kyle as always I’m looking forward to watching and hope your doing well and also I hope your mom is!! Sending blessings from the UK 🇬🇧

    • @WILDKYLE
      @WILDKYLE  Рік тому +1

      Thanks so much my friend!

  • @barrypoontang
    @barrypoontang Рік тому +1

    was that a sponge or something at 4:30 just to the left under the one you pick up?

  • @paleo1019
    @paleo1019 Рік тому +1

    Randy Blood is he's name right!? Awesome Geologist!

  • @philmuller8069
    @philmuller8069 5 місяців тому

    Do those hexagonaria coral , fluores with black light? I see the rock hunters around Lake Superior using black lights - and they find coral a lot.

  • @esztervizi7202
    @esztervizi7202 Рік тому

    Greetings from Somerset UK. I was wondering if you had seen any Mud Fossil Uni videos. If so what are your thoughts, I would be very interested to know?
    Love your films and cheerfulness..

  • @nanak2025
    @nanak2025 Рік тому

    We are heading thru that part of Michigan later this fall, do you need to get special permission to go in that area Kyle?

  • @leslyeschoenhuth1107
    @leslyeschoenhuth1107 Рік тому

    * So few crinoid stems.. ~ Hexagonaria fill with agate or chalcedony & that is what polishes.. not the coral framework..

  • @bw-ey4gp
    @bw-ey4gp 9 місяців тому +1

    Are you from Alpena? This is crazy, my gramps worked that quarry in the 1950s, 60s, 70s.

    • @WILDKYLE
      @WILDKYLE  9 місяців тому +1

      I'm not from Alpena, but I was born in Saginaw, MI!

    • @bw-ey4gp
      @bw-ey4gp 9 місяців тому

      So cool! My dads old stomping grounds. I'm in Clearwater and watch you, Rob, and Justin all the time. We don't have a ton of creeks but Alligator Creek was rerouted 100+ ago and am going today....holy god you just found a ground hutch in the vid I'm watching!!!

    • @bw-ey4gp
      @bw-ey4gp 8 місяців тому

      Your video when you found those straight side Gainesville Cokes is probably the peak of how exited you sound. Can you remember that feeling? So cool!

  • @beckiburke781
    @beckiburke781 Рік тому +1

    Congratulations on your Album. Don’t ever hang up your hat 🙃

  • @kevinhullinger8743
    @kevinhullinger8743 2 місяці тому

    Rocks cannot be dated

  • @SaltwaterSean
    @SaltwaterSean Рік тому

    I love all your videos Kyle. Would love to join forces some day. I think you'd love it here in Nova Scotia. Welcome anytime.

  • @kiyarnmyers2429
    @kiyarnmyers2429 Рік тому +1

    um...goop

  • @SandyFielding-cl4dc
    @SandyFielding-cl4dc Рік тому

    Wed love 2 send U a video of 1 of my best finds

  • @conniecraddock8481
    @conniecraddock8481 Рік тому

    So how do you clean off the outer matrix

  • @Hellfire420-wh2tf
    @Hellfire420-wh2tf Місяць тому

    i live in michigan in the thumd

  • @elizabethlewis3509
    @elizabethlewis3509 Рік тому +1

    Can you polish those petoskey stones not weathered by the water?

    • @WILDKYLE
      @WILDKYLE  Рік тому +1

      I think Rob said he polished one like that and he said it turned out pretty cool!

  • @brianwalker9185
    @brianwalker9185 Рік тому +1

    Golden piped rockhound....

  • @fizur2002
    @fizur2002 7 місяців тому

    I can only imagine how nightmarish that horn coral would be to boaters/swimmers if it existed today.

  • @charlesrowe9183
    @charlesrowe9183 8 місяців тому

    I invited Bryan Major the crystal collector, to join me on finding crinoid fossils and horn corals, I've found maybe 10 thousand perfect crinoid fossils and horn corals at my favorite place, this place is huge, and I haven't even scratch the place, there's maybe a million of them, and you are welcome to join me Mr Wild Kyle

  • @djpitr
    @djpitr 2 місяці тому

    Pretty cool ,I will be in the area in couple months , any way you can pin point me how do I find this place

  • @mclane606
    @mclane606 Рік тому

    Does the Southside of Alpena still smell like burnt tires and woodchips? I lived there on commercial street for 10 years 😊

  • @robertalderman1297
    @robertalderman1297 Рік тому

    Living it through you brother!

  • @SweetPeaSaid
    @SweetPeaSaid Рік тому

    Do you hunt in Northwest Florida?

  • @thing1178
    @thing1178 Рік тому

    Where is this?!? I couldn’t quiet hear

  • @claudebernardin1096
    @claudebernardin1096 Рік тому +1

    How does a viewer who lives about 4 and 1/2 hours from there find out this location to go there? Would somebody please e mail me some specifics? Pretty please with cherries on top.

    • @WILDKYLE
      @WILDKYLE  Рік тому

      Hey! Type Rockport Quarry into your maps and it'll come up :)

  • @30somethingnothing
    @30somethingnothing Рік тому

    Bet it's nice not having to worry about gators....

    • @karlaconroy2099
      @karlaconroy2099 8 місяців тому

      I always think I am lucky in Ohio to not worry about scary animals...during day anyways..maybe Coyote at night .But nothing where I am to worry about .Maybe humans ...lol