Gratiot River Park Rock Hunting

Sam and I hit the beach at the Gratiot River Park in the Keweenaw Peninsula for some rock hunting fun.
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[@donnareit866]

A beach rock hunt/ walk! Great choice of sharing rocks. I like that idea of agate light. As always, thanks for taking us along.

[@JimFry]

I am so geeked in processing a week's worth of finds there. The gifts that keep on giving; thank you so much for the inspiration!

[@MichiganRocks]

You were there for a whole week? I'm jealous. Sam and I got into town late on Friday night and had to leave around noon on Tuesday.

[@blaizeroberts7603]

Please go here again but longer video Please and thank you Michigan rocks

[@MichiganRocks]

That's about seven hours from my house, so I won't be going again too soon. I do have more videos from that trip coming though. I think you'll like next week's video. I found a couple of really nice agates and Sam found a lot of agates.

[@crisnelson7742]

I love visiting this beach.

[@MichiganRocks]

It's a great beach.

[@dorarolfzen4132]

I was 15 & I got to swam in Lake Michigan near Holland around 1969 many moons ago. I always collected rock's & I was enjoying the 💦 water too much. I never knew that there were so many different types of rock's in Lake Michigan.

[@entangledmindcells9359]

stumbled onto that beach decades ago.. decided to walk to the mouth after trout fishing in the spring.. brought back a great memory..

[@MichiganRocks]

It's a beautiful spot. Hopefully you caught a few brookies.

[@entangledmindcells9359]

@@MichiganRocks yep..that was exactly what we were fishing for.

[@kellyharper367]

Old Disabled House Bound Dusty Rusty Rockhound here: That was amazing... a beach where all the rocks look like kidney beans 🫘 Lol! My favorite was the red banded rock... very pretty!

[@yvonnefochesato4652]

You are right, lovely bedrock....

[@patriciamckean4186]

Love the idea of a jar of "littles"! The light could make it a night light. A little glue on the lid, so little people can't pull them out to make a pebble floor. "Ouch"!

[@MichiganRocks]

I have been looking for a little remote controlled, battery operated light but haven't found anything that didn't get horrible ratings.

[@Kk-md5xr]

Always great to see Sam again.

[@luzng]

Nature is so beautiful, it`s full of diamonds.

[@MichiganRocks]

Not only diamonds, but rocks that are a lot more interesting than diamonds!

[@soul_adventurist]

Lovely beach! Still hoping to make it up that way someday. I never get tired of watching you guys pick up beautiful rocks❤ Good call on getting away from the storm. Looks like it was surrounding y’all. It’s scary when it suddenly drops the temperature like that. Happy you’re safe❤

[@MichiganRocks]

I don't mind getting a little wet, but lightning and hypothermia are things I take seriously.

[@rockaholic4388]

This video might be the 1st time I’ve heard a rock hunter say “I’m trying not to bring home too many rocks” 😂

[@MichiganRocks]

You've watched enough of my videos to know that's how I roll. I still have a couple rocks from last summer rolling.

[@caroloyhawkinson7755]

You are so lucky! I love rock hunting!!

[@pattypaine]

Thank you for taking us along! I'm sorry that the weather cut your hunt short, but it was great to see the amazing vistas and rocks.

[@MichiganRocks]

We were there for a few days, so we were able to get out more in the next couple of days.

[@coffee19837]

Very cool rocks and finds Rob and Sam.

[@MichiganRocks]

We thought so, but of course we're rock nerds, so we're easily amused by a beach full of rocks.

[@coffee19837]

@@MichiganRocks Rob no shame in being a rock nerd count me and my husband Andrew in we are rock nerds too. I enjoy looking and finding all sorts of different types of rocks. Was a little sad we didn’t find Petoskey stones but I’m sure we’ll find them next time

[@butchgarner3911]

I am so jealous....Im glad it rained!! lol just kidding! You take us to some really beautiful places! thank you for sharing!!

[@MichiganRocks]

Hey! That's not even nice! I get it though. I was jealous of myself while editing it.

[@butchgarner3911]

I am not even kidding, the area around those lakes is sometimes just breathtaking.... You picked the right part of the country to call your stomping grounds... You keep making videos and I will keep watching them!

[@MichiganRocks]

@@butchgarner3911 Will do!

[@davidhile5363]

I think I enjoyed seeing the wear patterns in the bedrock as much as the beach stones. To bad the weather took a drastic change.

[@MichiganRocks]

Yeah, we were planning to be there a lot longer. We made up for it the next day on another beach.

[@shaungothwaite5092]

I’d like all the ones you put back rob you are so good about not taking everything you see the times I’ve been to mi I can’t help myself keep on showing us the good stuff!

[@MichiganRocks]

That comes with time. I have learned to control myself much better over the years.

[@captpaul8827]

Neat little hunt. Such a great place to examine the rocks/geology.

[@MichiganRocks]

I was disappointed that we got rained out. I wanted to spend more time there, but being soaked, the temperature dropping and lightning motivated us to abandon our hunt.

[@captpaul8827]

@@MichiganRocks It happens.

[@robertl6196]

Nice, moody day at the beach

[@MichiganRocks]

Hopefully you're referring to the weather and not the rockhounds.

[@girlnextdoor369]

I love all the little agates I would be making jewelry!

[@Mike-br8vb]

Some nice ones there. Good quick hunt.👍🏻

[@victoriadawydiuk4172]

Short but sweet video. ❤️

[@chelsealaser2207]

I always enjoy one of these videos. It's so fascinating to see all that variety. Ohio's Lake Erie shore isn't nearly so colorful.

[@MichiganRocks]

I'd still like to hunt a Lake Erie beach sometime. I have only hunted rocks on the three northern lakes. I'd like to complete the set by hunting Erie and Ontario.

[@margaretlynch1494]

🙋‍♀️❤️ I'd be good and stuck with loaded buckets on that beach. So many rocks! So many Colors! So many shapes and sizes!

[@MichiganRocks]

Your buckets would become anchors?

[@kirsiselei8703]

So nice rocks in there❤

[@nicolagraynewzealandrockho8976]

Absolutely beautiful spot, I'm watching on my smart tv,an commenting on my phone 😊. Love the tiny Agates, and there's some nice stuff to find. Love the banded stones

[@MichiganRocks]

That's commitment to commenting, Nicola. Thanks!

[@nicolagraynewzealandrockho8976]

@@MichiganRocks it's my pleasure,and your videos deserve to have comments

[@joeljeffery8704]

Right in my backyard! You should take a walk up the river. Lots of agates, go up to conglomerate falls. Look in the bottom of the conglomerate layer. When formed, the agates being heavier, will be at lower levels.

[@MichiganRocks]

I just looked on Google maps. Do you mean the upper or lower falls? Sam and I briefly talked about going up the river, but decided on the beach instead. Do you find agates all along the river?

[@elsamartinezreyes7454]

Que lugar tan hermoso!!! Espero un dia caminar por ahi. Saludos❤

[@davidl.turner1005]

Thanks for the vid! You’re right, the bedrock out there is really interesting. Different from the Copper Harbor conglomerate further east. Looking forward to getting up there again in August.

[@MichiganRocks]

The Copper Harbor conglomerate isn't nearly as beautiful.

[@victornonexistant4010]

Very creative and informal 👍

[@Metalsmithnna]

One of my favorite spots!!!!

[@wyomingadventures]

Nice to see you both out rock hunting together again. Sam has an eye for agates.

[@MichiganRocks]

Yes he does.

[@MsTastebud]

Oh the mouth of the Gratiot is a fave for agates!

[@longlimbsstudio]

Thanks for showing the bedrock. Haven't seen it before.

[@MichiganRocks]

You're welcome!

[@salishseaquest7952]

A pleasure to be out there with you....but nice to know that you made it back without a lightning encounter!

[@MichiganRocks]

We lived to hunt another day! And we did, too. In fact we hunted for the next three days.

[@salishseaquest7952]

@@MichiganRocks Wow! Hope you found lots of treasures/keepers.

[@firechicken455adventures]

Too bad the hunt was cut short due to the weather. You both had fantastic finds on this beach adventure.

[@MichiganRocks]

I know. We would have stayed a lot longer if the weather had cooperated.

[@grokeffer6226]

Nice!!!

[@tapmit82]

One of my top 5 beaches to hunt up there. Looked like a nice piece of prehnite ar 4:05. Thanks for the videos. I wish I was there now.

[@MichiganRocks]

It's in my top five too. Nice place.

[@AvalonDreamz]

Looking at the map where I am it would take me 10 hrs to drive there, but the rout I would need to take would be totally worth it. Definitely a vacation worthy looking drive and destination for those of us who have a family like mine that loves the outdoors.

[@MichiganRocks]

It's about seven hours for me and the drive is very nice from here. I'm in Alpena, about two hours south of the bridge.

[@maryseaman312]

Did I miss the time that you told us what makes an agate? I am not being fascicious, I think part of the story of a rock is what it is made of and what process it has gone through to become sometimes a little bigger than a Michigan fly. A jar of little agates in a jar with twinkle lights - - that would be so cool!

[@MichiganRocks]

I am not a geologist, so I'm the wrong person to explain to you how agates are formed. I asked a geologist to do that in a video here, but apparently that is a hotly debated topic and the geologist didn't want to get in the middle of it.

[@maryseaman312]

@@MichiganRocks now, THAT is interesting! About the only thing I know is: we get really excited if we can find an agate! LOL

[@judymarkel8029]

Great day at the beach

[@MichiganRocks]

Cut a little short, but still a great little hunt.

[@Willrocs]

Man that looks cool

[@ChrisRocks-ki8fr]

I never get tired of agates! For some reason, when I was in college in Houghton, we didn't look on the beaches for agates a lot. Don't know why. Probably a lack of time.

[@MichiganRocks]

That was an opportunity wasted! Sam is going to MTU in the fall. I worry that there won't be any agates left by the time he graduates.

[@berjo77]

“Banded sumtinorother” is a scientistical phrase.

[@MichiganRocks]

"Scientistical" is a term I'll have to remember. You must be an English professor or something.

[@carolmoline6490]

Love ❤️

[@janehelbert7551]

Stay safe you guys!

[@MichiganRocks]

We survived long enough to post a video.

[@powerlinekid4296]

I would take all those tiny agates, and some more and use it as aquarium gravel, for a fresh water aquarium.

[@MichiganRocks]

That would be some cool gravel and happy fishies.

[@priscillaross-fox9407]

I wish I could show you the 2 agates that my granddaughter and I had but I took no photos. Mine was an amethyst agate and a lady gave my g-daughter a real nice 'Lake Superior' agate. Both were about the same size, maybe 3" or so long by a couple or so inches wide.

[@MichiganRocks]

Those are pretty big for agates. There are some a lot bigger, but most of the ones I find are quite small.

[@travissmith9488]

Would love to join if you ever venture to the North Shore of MN for the big agates!

[@MichiganRocks]

I've been there before. I'd love to get back, but that's a really long drive.

[@elainesrottenbottom296]

2:03 that's not a lightning stone, is it? It's really cool and I probably would have hiked it back. I love a funky rock in a flower bed.

[@MichiganRocks]

No, I don't think so. Those are found in the southwestern part of the lower peninsula and they're brown, not gray.

[@browntree65]

It's nice when you find a ring ready agat .. you can send your excess rocks to me . 😊

[@elizabethlewis3509]

Would there ever be fossils in what looks like those flat rocks near the shore that reminds me of shale.?

[@MichiganRocks]

We found a couple fossils there, if I remember correctly, but not in that bedrock.

[@Bazilli]

It's likely Freda sandstone which is thought to be over a billion years old so you won't find anything in it. But as said, you can find loose fossils, mostly, if not all, coral-like things to my knowledge.

[@captpaul8827]

The bedded rocks south of the mouth are Nonesuch Shale, more of a shaly siltstone than a true shale, but a very important unit that made White Pine successful. Any fossils found there likely came from the Hudson Bay area and were carried south by glacial ice.

[@artostrom917]

Looks like great fun Rob. Can you tell me if you did a comparison between the Kingsley North and the Highland Park 6 inch cabbing machines. Thanks

[@MichiganRocks]

I haven't used the Highland Park machine. Here's my review of the Kingsley North Cabber 6, though. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pGSTknWKqp6Cobs

[@amazingsupermaster7757]

سبحان اللہ 🌷💚🌷 Amazing and Beautiful hobby like lovely flowers 🌹

[@LadyYoop]

A friend and I were picking up there one year, and a storm came through. We ran up and sat in the car...and waited for the storm to go over. it did and we went back to picking. We were the only two there. Then a young lady on a 4 wheeler came up, and asked me if that was my car parked there. I told her it was. She said "Well, you aren't getting out...that storm blew a tree down over the road."....I told her "see the gal over there? Go tell her..." And we packed up and started to head out. About half way out...there was a HUGE tree across the road. We were trapped. That young lady that came and told us, was busy with a little camp saw, going to town on that huge tree....lol....THEN a truck with a winch came in...they hacked it and pulled if off the road, and we got out! lol..I knew who the gal was...a friend of a friend..so we bought her a gift cert for a local restaurant and mailed it to her...Did you ever get to pick at Sunset Bay?? Before Pete died and he owned a huge track of beautiful Lake Superior?? Got a story there. lol

[@MichiganRocks]

You could look at being stuck there as an inconvenience, or a reason to stay for days, just picking rocks! I don't think I've been to Sunset Bay. I don't know who Pete is either. Is it a place you can't go anymore?

[@LadyYoop]

@@MichiganRocks you can pay to camp there, and there used to be just heaps, waves of rocks..the most beautiful place up here...I swear...but it got sold off after Pete passed. Except for the campground....it's gorgeous there...but I heard they tell you to put the rocks back! And you bet...we had food...we could have stayed if need be. lol

[@LadyYoop]

Sunset Bay's webcam: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5_Zg5yQbtmCa5o&ab_channel=WilliamHoward

[@MichiganRocks]

@@LadyYoop Ok, I'd rather have the option to take a few rocks with me.

[@LadyYoop]

@@MichiganRocks When Pete was alive....

[@Moocowthegreat]

Question, do you know where I can find a big rock tumbler barrel? Now I'm talking BIG. I'd say about 20 inches wide.

[@MichiganRocks]

I'm not sure, but I'd look at the Rock Shed and Kingsley North first. There are links in the description.

[@ArtyChern]

I’m curious, what are all of those purplish/brown rocks that are all over this shore? I have a lot of those around rivers by my house and have always wondered what they were.

[@MichiganRocks]

The little ones? I think they're mostly rhyolite.

[@SelectCircle]

Could you do a map for out-of-staters - showing all the best beaches to hit?

[@MichiganRocks]

This isn't my map, but I think it's what you're looking for: www.michiganrockhounds.com/map

[@SelectCircle]

@@MichiganRocks Sweet! Yes! But which sites would you put a gold star next to?

[@MichiganRocks]

@@SelectCircle There are so may beaches, it's hard to make a list. It depends on where you want to go and what you want to find. That's what makes the map so nice.

[@SelectCircle]

@@MichiganRocks Thank you! So it's a matter of really digging in. I'm looking forward to it!

[@theademyanenko9706]

🤗😍💖👍🏻

[@mdemaciel]

Bacana - nossa como este canal cresceu - lembro q não tinha nem 10mil inscritos

[@MichiganRocks]

Tive um curta no KZbin que se tornou viral recentemente e consegui mais de 100.000 inscritos apenas com aquele vídeo.

[@Neontetra276]

Are there Petoskey stones on mackinac island? I'm going there in a week.

[@MichiganRocks]

I don't think so. They're usually found quite a way south of there. South of Rogers City is where most of them are.

[@Neontetra276]

@@MichiganRocks Thanks for the answer. I'm also going to Traverse City for a bit, so hopefully I find one there before I head up to Mackinac Island.

[@MichiganRocks]

@@Neontetra276 That would be a better place to look.

[@Neontetra276]

@@MichiganRocks Yeah, I was wondering if they could be found on Mackinac Island since I will be at Traverse City for such a short time.

[@Neontetra276]

@@MichiganRocks Update: I found a tiny (yet beautiful) Petoskey stone. Although it's only like an inch, it is better than nothing. I'm going to Mackinac Island tomorrow and I'll see if there are any cool rocks there.

[@JimFry]

LOVE kzbin.info/www/bejne/hnabhGevbaiImbM this one. My kind of rock.

[@MichiganRocks]

The little orange one? Did you know that you can just put a timestamp in your comment? Like in this case if you just type 3:10 it will take you right to that part of the video.

[@joniangelsrreal6262]

👁👁 Always 🪨a 🪨 pleasure…🪨 7:08