Flower Stone, not what you think!

OK, yes, some of you know what it is, but a LOT don't. And it is not fossilized flowers.
I found a great haul of flower stone on Vancouver island. I went to the best place I know of for finding the beautiful Vancouver Island Flower Stone, the ocean beaches around the town of Campbell River. I found some of the most amazing pieces, and some huge. Also in the Geology Lesson of the day, I explain what Flowerstone is, because I get asked all the time if it is fossilized flower. Sort answer is "No", longer answer is in the video.
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[@aureaphilos]

Love the larger starbursts, Dan! I can see why you've sought them out. Suggestion: buy some of the small surveyor flags (small vinyl flags on a plastic staff), and mark off interesting pieces as you make your way out along the beach. Then you only have to carry the rocks as you collect them on your return hike. Save your back!

[@chipburns4123]

Then he would have to carry a bunch of flags!!

[@pamelavans5116]

Hello Dan, wish I knew you were on the Island, I would have invited you to come see our fish pond that hubby and I made. We collected "flowerstone" for about 8 years. One day, I suddenly knew what I was going to do with those 18 buckets of it, make a fish pond! The walls above ground are made of porphyry set into cement, about 18" high, and the pond is roughly 5 x 8 feet. It took an entire summer to make it. After it was done, I laboriously coated each stone with a high gloss spar varnish, so they look constantly wet. The floor around the pond is made of Dallasite. Must be the only pond like it in the world! It's the showstopper of our garden. Thanks for a great video! Cheers, Pamela, Vancouver Island.

[@beansdad70]

So many rocks… so little backpack! Loved the video and flower-stone!

[@annakeye]

15:07 is a veritable _floribunda_ of prettiness. Thanks for taking the time to share these cuts with us, Dan.

[@highseassailor]

Dan, stay safe and all the best with the coming checkup on your ticker! Thank you for your perseverance, we love your character.

[@BreakOutOfTheAlgorithm]

Dan thank you so much for pumping out so many videos lately. I love the geology lesson of the day, keep up the great work. 👍

[@bh3550]

Love the fact that you can swoop down to these public beaches and find cool still like this. Wish I had something like this near me!

[@jessicaf8917]

Those were a lot of barnacles…..and bird poop. Pretty much perfect camouflage for those flower stones who want to hide. The ones you found were beautiful!

[@fuzzytaint5021]

"Bird icecream" according to Pauly🤣

[@aaronsavage1234]

I’m really enjoying the extra videos recently. Thank you Dan!!

[@lisamills-wv6nc]

Dan, Please take care of yourself. Those rocks look so heavy! We want you around with more great videos! Those flower stones are gorgeous! 😊

[@JackTheRabbitMusic]

Hey Dan! That rock with the “big flowers” kinda looks like it’s got Japanese writing all over it! Crazy man. Nature is so cool. Peace. 🐰💙🗽🇺🇸🎸🎶🤝✌️

[@1800skindaguy]

it's called Chinese writing stone, very similar.

[@JackTheRabbitMusic]

@@1800skindaguy Nice. Thanks for the info.

[@backtoiron]

Been watching you for quite a while now.

[@diamondhunterTv5]

Wow wow you are lucky 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 super duper mind blowing flower stone Love it 💕💕💕💕💕💕

[@denaliprincess]

I LOVE the GLOTD!!! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!!!

[@josephcormier5974]

Thanks Dan it's always interesting to see all the stuff you find and the country you find it in six stars

[@sethkanten3830]

Beautiful

[@jmcr71795]

Oh, how I miss living in "Scrambled Liver" (my personal name for it). The straight between the Island and the mainland, south of Cape Mudge (the southern tip of Quadra Island) can look like glass at times. There was a few times backing the 1990s, that I left Oyster River to go to the old Church House reserve on the mainland, and cross the straight in a 14' river boat with a 20hp motor, with the water looking like glass just about the whole way!

[@seantilson6330]

💯😁👍💯 Much love from SOUTHERN N.H.!!!! .. very nice finds Dan.!!!

[@jenny_adrift]

Thanks for sharing! My favourite rock hounder!

[@patchvonbraun]

Back when I was a pre-teen, my friends parents ran a little rock/gem/jewelry business "on the side". His dad was a dean at University of Toronto, and his mom worked at OISE. They taught me how to polish rocks and make simple jewellery. Then when I entered junior-high, I found that the shop class had lapidary equipment! First time it had been used in quite some time. I remember grinding and polishing what I think was Flower Stone and making a pendant for someone. So long ago now (I'm 60). My interests moved on. Electronics. Computers. Girls. The usual :)

[@Bl4zz3r]

Been seeing those for years living on the island and never thought they had any value. Was great to meet you in person in Courtenay!

[@ironhorse7588]

Nice finds Dan 👍 Thanks for having us along.

[@mragatetv22]

good finding brother ❤

[@laurareutter6928]

Enjoyed the beach prospecting. Our beaches in the Puget Sound often have stones and gravels carried south from Canada by glaciers. This inspires me to get out and explore.

[@davidbarts6144]

Yes, including pieces of jade.

[@GeologicalNerd]

​@@davidbarts6144just remember it's nephrite jade not jadeite

[@brunobarks6544]

Thanks again Dan. 👍

[@Gardeningchristine]

That’s the kind of shameless plug that made me check out your store and I’ve loved literally everything I’ve bought there!

[@Gardeningchristine]

I’m the proud owner of 2 Ocean picture stone specimens, a chip bag that my mother may tumble someday, and my family had so much fun with the Christmas pay dirt bags, and a couple regular pay dirt bags!

[@whereswendy8544]

Oh, I've been looking for that flour stone! And I live in Campbell River, haha.

[@OneRoundDown]

Thank you Dan for all your hard work, I got one of those cut stones for my mom and she loved it.

[@oneilljames1]

I live on Vancouver Island! Big Fan!

[@MikeT]

Always like seeing the Vancouver Island stuff

[@javbw]

I live downstream from the Ashio Copper Mine in Japan, and my professor friend who specializes in geology/bones/archeology in our region gave me his mounted example of flower stone as a gift 😁 glad to see you doing a video about it! Let’s go looking for Jade in Itoigawa and gold on Sado Island when you come to Japan!

[@jasonhowarth6789]

That light green matrix stone sitting to the left of the bigger one on your tailgate reminds me of a field of wild flowers. Nice find!

[@dianesevigny1381]

Love the green stone gorgeous

[@lyndseycruickshank3248]

Hope you're having a great day too Dan!!! I live in Nanaimo, Thanks for telling me about the flower stones in Campbell river.

[@Greenandgold888]

Thanks Dan

[@jasonhowarth6789]

That larger crystal flower stone reminds me of Asian script pattern opal. Really cool!

[@brucedymock6635]

Fabulous stone the star bursts unreal thanks

[@bobweiss9138]

They are beautiful. Thank you for sharing, stay healthy 🙏 and safe 🙏 ❤

[@buscandooroartesanalmentes3823]

Hermoso lugar amigo gracias por compartir

[@qtrolazyg]

Always learning something new here. Thanks 😃

[@arulraj2696]

Wonderful, Don always comes with exciting new podcasts. This time star stones ..,..It glitters as paper weight on the table. Gonna buy one online......!

[@hardworkingfella8017]

Really cool stones Dan!!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@Alondro77]

These would make a very exotic and beautiful tiling for a countertop, or perhaps an internal onsen (Japanese bathhouse) tub. Of course, you'd need to haul about 100 more backpacks to get enough for an onsen! ;D

[@lobke666]

As always enjoy your videos and the surrounding.

[@jonnyperales9284]

Hey dan, i work in the stone fabrication/installation industry, i work with many different varieties of stone slabs to build kitchens, bathrooms, fireplaces, and many other things as well. I have gotten into using our big saw and polishing equipment to cut and polish any cool rock me and the kids can find thanks to you!!!! We would love to cut some of those flower stones in half but i doubt there are any here in Florida 😂

[@jonnyperales9284]

The last one was awesome

[@shaneyearby4438]

Can't wait to see the next Ocean Picture Stone harvest.

[@judithbogner3222]

🖋 It looks like someone doodled flowers all over those rocks! Very special! 🖋

[@tammylines2779]

Very unique and beautiful

[@dathachanhtrang]

Ở suối có những hòn đá đẹp quá ❤

[@rossonearth]

Wow Dan, those are so beautiful! 😮

[@carolgendreau]

Dan, those are some beautiful flower stones.❤

[@mineralhunter1]

Wow. Never seen before such kind of stone. So I'am high motivated for next tours on beaches.

[@wendyroman4944]

They are Beautiful! 👍😊

[@jasonsummit1885]

If you come over the border into Washington state, we have quite a bit of that type of stone. I usually pass it up for the agate and jasper material.

[@larry785]

Actually there is a 1970 popular jazz album named Stone Flower, by Antonio Carlos Jobim.

[@bfg1637]

I got one of those on me desk. very cool stone

[@WingmanJohnny]

Great video Dan. Keep up the good work

[@JulieAnneCorby]

I spent several months last year on the Sunshine Coast in the Garden Bay, Pender Harbour area. There was a little rocky beach off the ocean on Lee Road off Irvine's Landing. I got some real nice rocks there. There's a lot of speckled rocks. Anyhoo if you ever are up that way check out the beaches in that area. Sechelt has good rocks too and pretty sandy beaches.

[@cptnkaos5994]

Nice specimens Dan

[@derekclement7323]

Stuff is pretty cool. Have a piece from Dan. Well, I have a lot of different pieces from Dan. Lol. They are all great pieces and worth it, too.

[@johnpawicz2297]

Those are amazing!

[@averieldeathrider8407]

Never seen flower stone, but they're nice!! Love your channel!!

[@peterwiley4383]

You find a lot of beautiful items in basalt, Dan. Slabs are gorgeous.

[@mindseyeproductions8798]

Thanks Dan 🙃

[@wamlartmuse]

Thank you Dan the man!

[@MarkEvans72400]

I love the channel and am learning a lot have watched a long time but wondering if ya ever pick up the arrow heads when ya spot them

[@constantvanlife]

Love the flower stone😊

[@kellycloutier7560]

Dan ! Your overloading that backpack lol

[@laurat5143]

Hello Dan 😮 and omg, the flower stone was way different than I thought it would be. I'd love to find one of each stile. 😊❤love your videos. I watch them whenever I can get some time away from the movies, I'm a fan of science fiction movies 🎬 lol. I get it from my mom for sure. 😊Thumbs-up, too, and thanks for sharing your amazing finds and enformatsion 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 😅 😮 wow, beautiful indeed. I've never seen them.Thank 😊 you once again .

[@mikehunt1418]

You know Dan You always cheer me up when i watch Your channel...Thank You Bud

[@royclemo8744]

We found many, many flower stones on Texada Island and the beach was way easier to walk, more like the second beach you went to. I have never seen anything here in New Brunswick that is even similiar. Never did get a chaance to cut one though.

[@sovereignlivingsoul]

keeping busy there old man, i just watched a video of you with Jason, jetsetter or what, take care Dan, love the videos

[@73megalith]

Imagine looking out your window and enjoying the view only to see Dan picking up rocks and licking them, brilliant 👍

[@suewarnes9469]

Omagosh! Beautiful!😍

[@jdshanahan4215]

I would be interested in getting my hands on some of this to slab out and use for handle scales on a fixed blade knife.

[@joesutherland225]

Texeda has a ton of flowerstone also 4 or 5 old time gold mines and a limestone quarry that finds gold at the boundary layer of lower rock type. Would be interesting some tailins and waste piles that might show color too

[@tinaanderson7283]

I found a nice piece of porphrey in our landscape rock.

[@helenasmith4286]

Great looked it up in my book

[@janbuckley1]

The flower stones are beautiful

[@HoboMinerals]

You’d have a hard time getting me to leave that beach! Wow!

[@chrisdobbs9155]

You should take a trip to the Keweenaw in Michigan. Lots of this type of rock, plus agate, copper, greenstone, sodalite and even gold in the beach sands.

[@agate_jcg]

Could you do some videos on the shop work you do? Slab cutting and polishing, and so on?

[@marcussapir3245]

I was in Rome a couple of months ago, and I saw that St.Peters Square is paved with a type of flower stone pavers. Not from BC, unfortunately. Still really cool. Just a neat little factoid for ya.

[@K-9Gar]

Looks like the rocks we find here in the river banks n by the. Fossil bed

[@petepete2284]

Oyster river Dan. I know there are good ones along there.

[@dannysulyma6273]

I remember my local beach being covered with people looking for flower rock in the late 70's when there was a lot of people interested in rock hounding. Still plentiful as the surf keeps turning over the rock stock.

[@lizarrrdbeth]

Hope your feeling ok today Dan!!

[@forresttbarnes5710]

Congratulations on breaking 1M🎉

[@mikecooper3147]

Have you considered a backpack with a frame? I use one due to a back injury and it really helps balance the load.

[@thomasmark1808]

Just bought some large ocean picture stone chips this weekend. I Hope I get some nice pieces.

[@wingnutbert9685]

Boy Dan, you need a powered beach cart!

[@aaronweiss5587]

That is a really beutiful stone

[@bangbima1769]

Nice dan

[@viridiangreen8259]

Ut, they're gorgeous

[@davidbarts6144]

I have found porphyry like that on the beaches between Bellingham and the US/Canada border before. Always knew is was just crystals and not a fossil (it’s obvious from the shape of the individual grains).

[@martineastburn3679]

I like "desert Rose" Nice rock.

[@cathiannevans7611]

Love these stones... I'd be more than happy to help... a second backpack would be helpful... hint hint

[@amandajo1013]

They remind me of chamomile :) so pretty

[@garretpatterson5389]

Dan what causes the patter in the pattern in the flower stone ?

[@wdwerker]

Dan needs one of those Boston Robotic guys to haul his backpack !