Hunting for Whitby Jet
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- čas přidán 16. 05. 2023
- In this week's Cache Walk we are hunting for a gemstone called Jet. It's where the term, 'Jet Black' comes from. Jet is a type of fossilised wood that is made into jewelery. Join us for a walk around the beaches of Whitby. Do we find it?
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Heading to Whitby on Monday can’t wait hopefully find some jet and Amnonite
It's a great place to visit. Good luck. Please let us know how you get on with your search.
@@GeoRick will do, it’s going to be a spring tide so hopefully might find something.
I've got so much jet now from these beaches over the years .too many beach combers .the minute a tide goes out the beach fills with people with bags..
Lucky for us were the only ones looking on the day we were there.
Jet setters LOL good video
ha ha thanks glad you liked it 🙂
Very interesting as always. Always entertained and educated at the same time.
Glad you liked it. Always fun hunting for fossils and geocaches 🙂
I stay scarborough and go for day to Whitby and robin hood bay great day out
Would love to make it to Robin Hood Bay one day the village looks amazing in photographs.
I loved the views of this seaside town! And the views from the beach were even more amazing.
Awesome shots with the drone too! :)
Thanks, I love flying the drone in the UK as they have sensible drone rules.
Makes for very unique jewelry. Lots of coal eh? Is that where the term 'jet black' comes from?
Interesting jewellery as jet is quite hard but still soft enough to be carved without too much trouble. Yes that's where the term comes 'jet blac'k from.
I would probably be using bits of coal to make wee souvenir sketches! Not so fond of jet myself, although I am quite sure I had a go at 'jetting' there myself some decades ago!..... Love your camera Lynn. Fabulous photography/drone footage as always.
So you have been jetting too. The hunt for treasures goes on 🙂Thanks.
Do love visiting whitby. Hope you called into Magpie for fish and chips
Yes Whitby is a great place to visit. Fish and Chips will be coming up in another Cache Walk but not from the Magpie. Sounds like there at least a couple of nice fish and chip shops there.
@@GeoRick Magpie cafe is the best. No1 in Whitby
thats a lot of walking , tired me out just watching lol, Never knew they made jewelry from fossilized wood
It was a long day even for us. Just had to keep looking 🙂 hate a DNF 🙂
They don't.jet is monkey pussle tree sap that is over 3000 years old.not the wood
All our research says Whitby Jet is the fossilized wood from species similar to the extant Chilean pine (Araucaria araucana).
@@roxyinc Jet is from a prehistoric species of Monkey Puzzle tree yes, however it most certainly is from the tree's wood and not it's sap
Didn't look at the tides time, didn't do any research on whitby, what a disaster.
Did check the tide time just a little too keen to get there. Did research or as much as we could living half a world away. Found jet and great fossils while there. Whitby is a great place.