Gastropods Galore at Rockport - Rock Collecting with a Geologist
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- čas přidán 9. 06. 2022
- My son in law David, who is a geologist, joins me for a fun kayak ride and some interesting rock collecting on the beach at Rockport State Park. We found a surprising number of gastropods (giant prehistoric snails) as well as some other interesting rocks.
Thanks to Christina Jelinek for editing the closed captions for this video.
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David is amazing! Knows his stuff! Thx for sharing!
I love the kayaking videos. It’s nice that it’s finally warm enough there to go out without the heavy coats. The water and beach are just beautiful. It’s awesome that you have a son in law and family with the same great love of rocks that you have.
It was supposed to be 70, but I was a little cold in just a teeshirt. The waves on the way back were way bigger than they look in the video and I was soaked, but by then I was so excited about trying not to capsize my boat that I wasn't even cold. That was one of the most fun kayak rides I've had. Kayaking is usually more relaxing and less exciting.
@@MichiganRocks For some reason, I dislike dealing with waves out on the ocean or big lakes...but I take my touring kayaks down rivers all the time. I have boats from a size similar to the two shown here, all the way up to a 16'6" Sealution II with fore and aft hatches. We're not talking massive class IV rapids, but I have done lower sections of a river the U.S. Olympic whitewater kayak team uses to train...and the same sections rafting companies use all summer.
I do gold panning on the same rivers, and end up taking a bucket of rocks home too, as the sluice box uncovers a lot of really nice stones.
I inherited the rockhounding gene from two different grandparents...as well as their rock collections. One just collected and identified...the other had all the saws, tumblers and polishers to do a lot of lapidary stuff. While I do have boxes of raw material and a bunch of his finished work...the equipment was snatched up by an (ex?) uncle before I was old enough to know what was going on...and he just ruined it.
@@nevyen149 That's a shame that the lapidary equipment went to someone who didn't appreciate it enough to take care of it.
I have only kayaked on my 12 foot kayaks. I try to avoid big waves, but it was pretty fun being caught in them on the day I filmed this. I have never done white water kayaking, but I have gone white water rafting three times in the New River in West Virginia. That was a ball. I'd love to go again.
@@MichiganRocks I don't like the waves (and swells) where I've been because they've pretty much been either a coast which gets very deep, very close to shore...or one with sharks big enough to hurt you. During your videos when you have a camera underwater, I keep having to remind myself you don't have to worry about a Great White looming up from the deep.
@@nevyen149 My wife has a shirt that says, "Great Lakes-Unsalted and Shark Free". That's just the way I like it.
Very cool. David was really cool sharing all that info about the fossils.
David is helpful that way. He's nice to have along.
17:20 David may be an expert, but clearly that is a cushion from Aunt Sylvia’s 70’s green velour sofa.
Clearly.
Thanks for taking us on a great adventure. Loved learning about the fossils and rocks from David.
Another day of fun.
Thanks for sharing.
God bless and take care.
Nice trip. Enjoyed this video quite a bit. Thank you
Thanks, Virginia. Glad you liked it.
The feather is a Canada Goose primary wing feather. They molt those this time of year to regrow new ones in preparation for migration.
Thanks! There are lots of geese around here, so that make sense. We did have an eagle fly out of a tree above us that day too.
That’s so cool that David is a geologist ! I always enjoy his and Capt. Paul’s take on things !
Yep, it's nice to have people along with me who actually know stuff!
Another great video. You two play well together. Nice having a family geologist. I enjoy his deeper dives into what we're looking at. Very educational. Thanks for sharing...
I'm really lucky to have a great family, including David. He's a great addition to the family.
What a great day to find some gorgeous gastropods! You both found so many cool gastropod fossils. 😍🥰😇👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Yeah, I didn't expect that. I had found some that way a long time ago, but I didn't have expectations of finding that many.
It's always interesting listening to David talk about rocks. The gastropods are neat. It finally warmed up here today. Over 6ft. of snow on Beartooth pass last weekend.
We've been to Beartooth Pass. I remember there being snow up there in July. It hasn't been hot here, but in the sixties most days recently.
Wow, I would never move further than about 10 feet down the beach until I had dumped buckets of water and dug beneath those millions of dry stones above the water line!
Some people are diggers, but I prefer to look at as many surface rocks as I can. I feel like I can see a lot more rocks in less time that way. Your method lets you see rocks that are hidden to people like me, which might be an advantage too.
I'll be up on Mullett lake again end of July and first of August. Can't wait! I will bring my kayak and see what I can find. Thanks for another great video.
Good luck!
Wow, this was cool. I always enjoy hearing David's knowledge, I always learn some new things. Those gastropods are amazing, what a great area those shells are beautiful, amazing fossils. Excellent rock finds too. Thanks for the awesome journey Rob and David!
I found some gastropods in this area with Nancy quite a few years ago when the water was really low. I didn't think we'd find them with the water levels higher. I was really surprised at how many we ended up finding.
@@MichiganRocks that is really cool how many, and the condition too, I like the detail!
@@CityRockhounding I have actually found some with a lot more detail here in the past. Those are not easy to find though.
That looked like a nice kayaking adventure! Boy you two were killing it with the gastropods! And that big petoskey stone you picked up was so cool. You could see the whole coral structure on it! And that last last beach was Petoskey heaven! Lovely day on the water! Looked like a lot of work getting back and my arms are tired from watching you! Thanks for taking us along!
Our arms were tired too, but it was a lot of fun paddling in those waves. Every once in awhile, a big one would break right as I was paddling by it. Exciting! Oh, and the rocks were really good too.
Nice to see David. How about an update on your grandson? Suzy AZ USA
My grandson was in a recent video: czcams.com/video/fgcAEjPQzVw/video.html
Not a bad gig when you can take a professional along with you on a hike! Really nice stuff on the beach there, take any home to polish? My 6 year old nephew wanted to tumble a few fossils we found at Lakeport. It turns out that they tumble and polish quite nicely! Nice day at a beautiful beach full of ancient history, great way to start the summer!
I'm surprised that you had luck tumbling fossils. They're often soft limestone and don't tumble well at all. Some or more silicified though.
I didn't take any home. David took the possible trilobite and one gastropod, but not to polish.
@@MichiganRocks , it’s rough on the existing outer layers, just like any rock, you lose allot but got some nice results, get into the core structures. There are some duller spots that are offset if you uncover crystal. It has its fans.
some really cool critter rocks today! those swirly critter fossils were HUGE
Uh oh! My geologist hubby is going to want to get back to Rockport this summer! Super cool! Up on the piles of rock is the only place we’ve seen a rattlesnake in Michigan. Super cool!
Oh really? I have never seen one. I know they're around, but I haven't run across one. That would be really cool to see as long as I saw it before it saw me!
@@MichiganRocks yeah, they’re very rare to see, apparently, so we were lucky. They’re very small, as rattlesnakes go. Also fairly harmless, as rattlesnakes go.
@@HappiestGirl69 I had a student who was bitten a couple years ago and I heard someone was bitten when they were building Walmart here in town. You don't hear about bites very often, but I do respect massasauga rattlesnakes even if they're not the most dangerous kind.
@@MichiganRocks Very smart! I would too. 😅
What a lovely day. Stunning colors of the rocks, the water, the sky, the beaches & trees. Love the sounds of the water. Oh and it’s cool learning about the rocks you find.
It's hard to tell for sure , but it sounds like you enjoyed the video.
Love all the info you guys gave us on different rocks and things! Thanks for sharing!
You're welcome, Brian. David is full of geological info. I'm more full of lapidary info. We complement each other well.
I was just on that beach Tuesday. I travel all over the state for work and was in Alpena so I went to check out rock port. Climbed the big stone pile then down to the beach for a quick rock hunt. I was near the water so I missed the Gastropods.😕 But i did find a couple of keepers. Hung out near the little stream just north of the pier for a while just relaxing. really a nice place to just chill after work.👍
There are so many fun things to do at Rockport. Have you ever walked back to the sinkholes behind the quarry?
i love this video, such great rocks. David , thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. much appreciated 👍
15:55 stunning black & grey!
18:20 a gold-plated prehistoric armadillo creature rolled into a defensive ball
Yep, that’s a partial mold of a trilobite. Those gastropods are awesome!
Love the fossils! And the sound of the waves. Thanks for sharing!!
Thank you for such a nice rock hunt on the beach. Really enjoyed it!
You're welcome, Signe!
Your son in law looks EXACTLY like you!! Holy moly i had to look like 4 times... best compliment ever from your daughter... you must be a righteous dad!!
You're the third person who has said something like that. I didn't realize that we looked alike. We have similar interests too.
There were many trilobite variants. At 9:58, I think David is pointing at one half of a trilobite tail or possibly one of the horns on the head. A picture of a similar variant can be found doing a search under the phrase "In Earth’s Greatest Extinction, Land Animals Began Dying Off Long Before Marine Life". It make sense that he found another part of one a few minutes later.
There are definitely trilobites in this area, but they're not common at all. Neither of us recognized anything in the rock at 9:58 as a trilobite, but that doesn't mean that there wasn't one there.
David and you make a great team.😊 Very much enjoyed getting to see the less traveled beaches. Amazing fossil finds!❤
This beach is easy to get to and easy to walk now that the water levels are down a bit.
Thank you for the kayaking shots.
No problem. I like getting those shots when I'm in the kayak.
Lots of interesting rocks on that trip. I had heard that there were "shells" north of Rockport, but never managed to get that direction. Sadly, it's hard to see the entire shell when they're still encased in limestone, but another way to tell gastropods from nautiloids is to look at the coiling symmetry of the shell. I do tend to agree with David though that they are gastropods, but would like to examine further...
There's a guy who does a lot of guided fossil hunts in this area who goes by "Paleo Joe". He told me about this spot and said that they were gastropods. I have a couple from an earlier hunt in my basement that I can show you when we get together this summer.
@@MichiganRocks I've met Paleo Joe. He was the special lecturer at the Houghton mineral show last year; great guy and very knowledgeable.
@@captpaul8827 Yeah, I like him. I ran into him at Rockport once and tagged along with him for awhile. I've also heard him speak here in Alpena at the museum. czcams.com/video/DH6-oeny4qI/video.html
A very timely video! We just got to Alpena tonight! Will check out this beach tomorrow. It takes about 13 hours to get here from central Pennsylvania. We tried to make it to your fave Huron beaches last fall, but spent two weeks in the UP, and didn't make it east...long story... Anyway, we said we'd offer to take you to lunch to thank you for your CZcams University lessons we watched during covid..so if you want to collect...we'll be here for at least two days! Mon and Tues 6/13 and 6/14!
Old disabled house bound dusty rusty rockhound here: These fossils are amazing!
Some really great shots of the water you make our state proud
It's easy to make Michigan look good. We have a beautiful state.
Great video! Thanks!
Nice fossils. I am envious!
Lots of interesting finds.
Really pretty place.
Your kayak ride home reminds me of a time hubby and I went out for a kayak to a mussel farm (here in Nz).
We aren't out to far, it got quite rough, and the water was so dark.
I was really worried about sharks 😂😂.
Those fossils are really neat.
The green mudstone definitely looks like one of those I've just finished polishing.
Great video
The nice thing about the Great Lakes is that they're unsalted and shark free. We weren't in any danger because we were in shallow water close to shore, but we did have to work at it to get home. It sure was fun though.
Great day! Fun finds!
I can't wait to be up there. 😍
Thanks again!
Very nice video, love the nice rocks
Super fossils...great day at the beach!
Loved the video. It was fun.
Thanks, Lynn.
Definitely a trilobite pygidium! Congrats on the rare find. That would have been a monster! Thanks for the video!
Thanks for the ID, TJ!
Great adventure. Amazing the amount of gastropods you found. I have to go back there again, I didn't have good luck when I was there
The gastropods are down about a half mile to a mile. We must have found twenty or so.
This is by far one of my favorite of your videos! So much information that I'm sore I will nor remember but was very interesting to hear. The rock are so beautiful! Thank you for sharing! Please be careful and stay safe! ❤❤
Thanks, Mary. That was a fun day. One of the highlights that stands out in my mind was the rough ride home in the kayaks. I try not to be out in waves that big because I worry a little about being able to get home. We could have easily walked the beach from there, but carrying the kayaks wouldn't be fun. It was rough and kind of cold, but I was smiling the whole way back.
Amazing finds!! 👏 love the channel!!!
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Well glad you both made it back out safely. I haven't been up there in a long time. And never went to the left of the park. Might have to take our kayaks up there someday. Looks like you guys had fun at least.
The waves on the way back were much bigger than they appeared in the video. We had to paddle hard into the wind to get back, but I was smiling or laughing the whole way. It was really fun.
Fossils yay! Some real beauties there, Rob. Made my day. Thank you. ❤️💔🦅🦅
I'm glad to make your day!
Your son in law looks like he could be your actual son, Haha, great video, love learning from you guys.
My actual son has red hair. He appears in this video: czcams.com/video/fgcAEjPQzVw/video.html
I wonder if I look more like my son Bryan or my son in law, David.
@@MichiganRocks even with the red hair your bio son does look more like you then your son in law when put side by side. Red hair must come from the moms side? I do remember watching this video. Was a very cool thing to see those old giant pathways carve out. Thank you for all your videos. You have helped me alot more then you can ever think and between you and Agate Dad and WildKyle you guys have inspired me and my son to create our own rockhounding journey and document what we learn.
That looks like part of a trilobite to me. We’ve found one in Rockport and a few at Leelenau State Park.
I have yet to find one. My neighbor Sam found what might be part of one in a river we were hunting a couple years ago. You're lucky to have found a few.
Good day out friend !!
Was just at Silver Lake Dunes collecting rocks.
Are there rocks there? I have thought about going there to look for fulgurites. With gas prices as high as they are, though, I don't think I'll be going that far on the off chance of finding one.
Rob, the 1st gastropod that you found would be a gorgeous on a wall, as is!
David took the first one I found home with him. I don't know if it will go on a wall, but it's safely in his possession.
Could be a Trilobite. That the ridges point into an arrow shape, but only a little.
It was hard to tell. Sure looked like a possibility.
This was so fun to watch, especially on a very hot day. I’m coming to Michigan in three weeks! I’ve been planning the trip for a year!
Sounds like fun!
Very cool video! Lots of gastropods on that beach. Did David take any home? Just curious. Thanks for sharing Rob!✌️🤠
David took the possible trilobite and one gastropod home. I don't think I took anything home that day. I have a few gastropods at home already and they are just stored in a box. I don't make anything out of them, so I should probably return the ones I have to the beach.
very cool!!
Fellow Michigan rock hound here! I have been learning so much from your videos! Keep up the great work! I was wondering if u had any advice for cleaning stained rocks without ruining them?
Nope, I don't usually clean my rocks. I either tumble them, which removes the whole outside surface, or I slab them and make something out of them. For larger rocks, a power washer might work as a first step.
Great beach Rob
Definitely a partial trilobite impression, mostly posterior. Also, one minor clarification: Cephalopods and gastropods are in the same phylum Mollusca. They are separate *classes* within the phylum Mollusca (class Cephalopoda and class Gastropoda). Great video as usual!
Thanks a lot for the additional information, Tony!
@@MichiganRocks You're most welcome. I sent you a PM via FB.
Yes, that's the tail segment of a trilobite, called Coronura.
Thanks for the ID Betsy.
I don't know if anyone commented about it yet, but that looked like an eagle feather to me. It's always fun learning stuff from David. You'll have to ship him to Minnesota some day, so he can teach me about all the rocks around me.
Someone else said it was a goose feather. Both geese and eagles are around, so either is possible. An eagle flew out of a tree over our heads later that day. It was pretty close, but a GoPro is not a good camera for anything very far away.
What an amazing day to spend time with family . Seems like you have a mini me , lol I'm just having fun . Great content Rob , see you soon . Cheers
We did have a nice day together. Fun, fun, fun!
Thanks nice video.
Fun video. I think it’s phylum molluska with class Gastropoda, cephalopoda and bivalvia. I’m always rooting for good puddings when you hunt on Lake Huron.
Could be. I'm not a fossil expert at all. David isn't really either, but he did learn about some of this stuff in college. It's not the field he works in though.
Bonito lugar,,
Nice
Looks like one to me!
Cool fossils. At least it didn't start pouring rain. Good work out huh?
We worked hard to get home, but I had a ball. I was smiling the whole way. It was nice that it didn't rain, but I was soaked anyway.
At 13:00 that's a trilobite pygidium (tail) cast. I didn't know that the limestone was that old but it must be more than 250 million years old.
The limestone in this area is Devonian, about 350-360 million years old. Thanks for helping out with the trilobite identification!
Here in northern Indiana we have found brachiopods.
There are a lot of brachiopods here too.
I would love to hunt for these next time I'm up!
Nah, you'll find better ones than me and make me grumpy.
@@MichiganRocks How did I know this comment was coming 😂
@@WILDKYLE You must be psychotic. Or is is psychic?
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I just finished a book that reminded me of your channel. It’s called Station Eleven and part of it centers around Lake Huron and a new town formed named New Petosky and a paper called New Petosky News
I just looked up the book and I see that HBO made a miniseries based on it. Must be a pretty good book.
Great day to be out. It's too hot to hunt rocks here in Texas. Have to wait till the sun sets a bit. My pup Cookie is really wanting to get outside for a walk. Thanks for a great video.
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It has been a cold spring and summer so far. Today it got hot for a little bit, but most of the day was in the seventies.
@@MichiganRocks we cooled down to the high 90s today. Soon back to 100s
@@oldgamerchick You can have that weather. I hide inside on days like those.
@@MichiganRocks me too 🤗
The Phylum is Mollusca, which includes the CLASSES of Gastropoda and Cephalopoda.
Ok, thanks for the correction.
You’re shaming rocks! LOL
I know that one around 18:30 was big, but it was an awesome rock. I hope you took it home. It'll make a TON of slabs. You could even do thicc slabs.
I considered it, but they way it was wearing more in the dark areas makes me think that it wasn't a very solid rock. Those do sometimes make awesome slabs though. There's one in this video: czcams.com/video/AVT1IDirpeg/video.html
@@MichiganRocks I wonder if you could fill it with some epoxy or something.
@@multipletanksyndrome There are ways to stabilize a rock, but I have never tried any of them. I know I can find very solid cladopora fossils, so I'd rather just do that.
@@MichiganRocks nice. That rock was really cool looking. Thanks again for sharing your hunt.
Wow, you guys found a lot of them. I have never found a single one yet but I have not been as far away as you are either.
It's not all that far down the beach where they start. Something like 3/4 of a mile. If you go down there, you'll most likely find some.
@@MichiganRocks I have to check it out one day when the weather is a bit nicer. We were on Lake Huron this weekend and it was windy and cold. We could not stay long.
Son-in-law, or son? I'm sure I can't be the only one who's noticed that you two bear a remarkable resemblance to one another.
I'm glad you showed the rock with sandy debrites. I have one of them..
David is my son in law. My son looks nothing like him. He has red hair for starters.
@@MichiganRocks 👍 Got it!
I feel the need to ask if all of your family are as interested in rocks as you are or if you interest has made them that way? My dad was a rock hound and most, if not all of his eight children and their families are all following in his footsteps! It is not surprising to see any of us in a rock patch somewhere just looking! Rock driveways are amazing places to look! The kids have spent hours just looking at the same rocks the looked at yesterday or last week! Please be careful and stay safe ❤❤
I have not been interested in rocks my whole life. I grew up on an inland lake in Michigan and my sister and I used to play on the beach and make little rock collections, but I don't remember bringing them inside. We'd just make a pile on the dock or something.
After I got married, I got interested in landscaping, which is still an interest. When we built a house in 1999, I really wanted to have some big boulders in the yard, which is something I did.
It wasn't until my son took an interest in polished gift shop rocks that I get interested in tumbling. We bought him a tumbler for Christmas and I was hooked.
My son still likes rocks but doesn't have the time to go looking for them anymore. My wife taught middle school science and after teaching for quite a few years, the curriculum changed to mostly earth science, so she had to educate herself on geology. She has interest in that, but not so much in lapidary stuff. She likes what I make, but has no interest in doing any tumbling or other lapidary things. My daughter loves science and was very involved in Science Olympiad from elementary through high school. She did some rock and fossil events along the way and has a similar interest as my wife. She married David who you probably know is a geologist.
I was telling someone this morning that I wish I had a geologist that would be able to tell me what all of my pretty rocks were.
Tonight I'm working on editing a video with two geologists who identified a bunch of rocks on the beach for me. You'll get to see that one in a week or two.
Gary: “meow!“
We were just up in northern Michigan last week for the first time. We rented a lakefront cabin east of Cheboygan and then spent a couple of days on Mackinac Island. We really enjoyed our stay and loved all the rocks -- probably brought home 20 lbs. of them! The weather at the start of last week was pretty crazy with how hot it was, and the stable flies were awful at our cabin, but then things cooled down nicely. It was frustrating to us, though, that we had no idea what most of the rocks we found were and couldn't tell which ones were "good" and which ones weren't.
I have a question for you: We noticed that the rocks on Mackinac Island were decidedly less varied and colorful than what we found on the Lake Huron beaches just a couple of miles away. Any idea why the Mackinac rocks are so boring?
The beaches vary a lot here. Even on outing, it's not unusual to see several different types of beach. For example, in this video we saw beaches with mostly limestone, one with mostly sand, and the one at the end had a nice mix of limestone (Petoskey Stones) and glacially deposited rocks. Mackinac Island is pretty much all limestone, if I remember correctly. That's what Arch Rock is made out of and I believe the fort is limestone too. I don't know exactly why the glaciers dropped rocks in some areas and not others, but Mackinac Island was not one of the spots they were deposited, apparently.
@@MichiganRocks Okay, thanks! Well then I feel very thankful that our cabin happened to be on a beach with a lot of different kinds of rocks.
Mackinac Island is mostly composed of a carbonate unit called the Mackinac Breccia which is the rock unit that makes up most of the popular geologic features on the island, as well as the large ridge in front of Fort Mackinac. In fact, those ridges show another neat geologic feature of the Island; the high water stands of glacial Lakes Algonquin and Nipissing which can easily be seen while crossing the Bridge or from the top of Castle Rock (also composed of Mackinac Breccia) north of St. Ignace.
@@captpaul8827 Huh -- Very interesting. We went to Castle Rock, so I wish I had known to look for that (and what to look for)!
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You've made some pretty finds ! I'm just a little bit curious, how old are the local limestone ? Is the quarry the same as the one you went in July 2021 with Wildkyle ? (And so, same geological formation ?) Anyway, thanks for your video. I live in france and it's fun to discover the geological make-up of the rest of the world !
Yes, this is at Rockport, the same quarry I went to with Kyle last summer. The limestone in this area is Devonian. Some sources on the Internet say it's 350 million years old, and others say it's 360 million years old.
Question: where the waves were coming in two different directions, is that dangerous? Could a riptide develop there? Really liked this video! You found so many different stones and the lake was beautiful! Also appreciated the info from your son-in-law, although some of it, actually a lot of it was over my head. My family and I will have to go there some day soon. Have a blessed day! Joy S. (not Richard) from Northern Indiana
I don't know of any particular hazard where the waves are coming from different directions. The wind was just coming from one direction and the waves just do weird things in those shallow areas. I have seen that on other narrow points like that. I think Lake Michigan has a lot more rip currents than other lakes if I remember correctly. Not that you should avoid safety in Lake Huron or any other lake. Here are three good websites I found for you that explain various dangerous currents:
Great Lakes Water Safety: www.greatlakeswatersafety.org
Beach Hazards Forecast Map: www.weather.gov/greatlakes/beachhazards
Great Lakes Drowning Statistics: glsrp.org/statistics/
@@MichiganRocks Thank you for your answer and the safety website. I will look it up and read it. Stay safe out there! Joy S.
Probably a product of something called Longshore Drift where you have the current of the Lake flowing one direction and the wind/waves flowing to another. It is quite common to see this along the Lake Superior shoreline in the Keweenaw.
@@captpaul8827 I didn't know what caused that, so thanks. That makes sense.
I love your videos ! Any areas close to Harrisville state park to rock hunt ?
I just hunted at Harrisville State Park today. It wasn't great though, lots of small rocks. Sturgeon Point Lighthouse is close and has some rocks, that are typically a little bigger. A little farther North is Negwegon State Park. You'll have to walk almost a mile to the north to get to the rocks, but there are rocks there.
@@MichiganRocks thanks for the info ! I checked out Harrisville today also . Such a beautiful place ! I will probably check out the others on my way home
@@MichiganRocks how is the road getting back to negwegon? Do you need 4 wheel drive ?
@@419TRUTH I haven't driven it from the Black River side lately, but it's usually sort of sandy that way. From the Ossineke side, it's a narrow road, but pretty solid. I have never used four wheel drive to get there in my Jeep Wrangler. I think as long as you're not driving a really low car, you'd be fine. I also have a two wheel drive Jeep Cherokee and I wouldn't hesitate to take that back there.
@@MichiganRocks Thanks 🙏 . We went back there and walked to the first campground but the flies drove us off. Seems like regular mosquito spray doesn’t work against those guys !
Heeey-. at 17:02, was that a partial ammonite casting behind that petoski, or gastropod?
I don't think we have ammonites here.
Thanks for sharing Rob, nice of your daughter to marry someone with a similar interest to you wasn’t it.
She's very thoughtful.
Can you explain how it happens that you can have certain rocks on one beach, and then you turn the corner and you find different ones not far from the beach you were just at. Thank you.
Not very well, but I'll give it a shot. I can tell you that the fossils here come from the limestone bedrock in this area. Some beaches have sand which is just covering up the bedrock. Then other beaches have rocks that were deposited by glaciers. As for the fossils, different layers of limestone are different ages, I think, so that would account for some different fossils occurring in different places. The gastropods are on the beach, but you don't usually see them in the quarry which is right by where we parked.
@@MichiganRocks thank you
The death plates and gastropods you found today.
Is there anyway to smooth and polish them without ruining the fossils?
I'm not sure. I haven't tried polishing a gastropod. I don't think that would go well. I really should try to polish a death plate someday, though.
@@MichiganRocks I meant to say cladopora.
@@corytrevorson1411 Oh, in that case: czcams.com/users/shortswW95iNHsqFU?feature=share
@@MichiganRocks that's my favorite type of rock you find.
What is the water temp?
Cold, but not really cold. My feet got used to it after a few minutes. It wasn't horrible getting drenched by it on the way home.
I enjoy your videos so much. I wish I could walk the beach for rocks. I am in a wheel chair, so that is out of the question. Maybe I could find d someone to do it for me. I tumble stone and make jewelry. I would love to tumble so.e of the stones you leave behind.
I’m really sorry you can’t get out, Mary. I’m glad you can at least see the beach through my videos.
Just went to Rock port on Father's day week didn't see anything but lime stone we were at the big mountain of limestone.where is this from the mountain of lime stone is it by a park?
I think I mentioned at the beginning of the video that we were heading north from the pier. So if you're standing not he big mountain of limestone looking at the lake, it's to the left. The gastropods are down about 3/4 of a mile. We probably went two miles or a little more altogether.
Ok thank you....we didn't find much while we were there....we were glad to go somewhere we have never been before....also went to one of the light houses at presque isle that is where we found a survey marker like one you showed in that video...thought that was pretty cool...we ended up going to elk rapids the next day...yesterday....we like the day park usually...was kinda disappointing this year...so we went to a couple beaches north of town..it was a good day..Thanks for the great videos have learned a few names of rocks from you
@@williamjeffers6593 I went to Presque Isle last summer and didn't find much there either. Some beaches are better than others.
@@MichiganRocks thanks for the response have a great summer .Rock on
you got a helluva son in law! Holy wha. ......is the water there cold like Superior all the time?
No, it warms up some. It depends on the wind, or if you're in a bay or if the water is deep or shallow.
Ps... Is it possible to walk the mile or so to the gastropods?
Yes, it probably would have been a better plan for us on that rough day. The water is down a bit so the beach is pretty wide now. I didn't look this time, but sometimes the huge pile of rocks right by the parking lot is hard to walk around on the beach, but you can always take the path over the pile of rocks.
We did it! It took five hours, but we found lots of gastropods! So happy you shared this tip with us. Tried another spot of yours.. Hoeft state park, but they wouldn't sell us a day pass. $36 is a bit steep for a few hours!
Good news on the gastropods!