Thank you @melinda010100!
We sure love looking for rocks along the beach!
One beach is by far the best for finding quite a
few, it has more gravels vs sand. Up by the
Nikiski docks, these jaspers came from there.
It's great exercise, with rocky rewards lol
I really miss being able to go out rock hunting. The last time I tried it I used a cane to walk on the beach and that does not work out well! I did pick up a few rocks though!
I'm dreaming of a heated beach buggy with a glass bottom
window and a automated agate arm to pick them up, kinda
like a rock rover lol, we need a fleet of them and go hunting!
Do they allow ATV's and other motorized vehicles on the
beaches around the great lakes?
It's gotten harder for us to go as far as we use to years ago
and the weather has put a halt to many lookings for rocks.
Mostly we go and take a few photos, perhaps a fast look.
If there was a storm like recently I grab some cool looking
driftwood while the grabbings good! Few days later and
a lot of it was cut up and taken for firewood.
Many the beaches are down below the cliffs. Some places had handicap accessible walkways and ramps to get to waterfalls in down to beaches but I don't think you could take motorized vehicles out on the beach. I know my mobility scooter would certainly not be heavy duty enough to make it on the rocks or in any sand. A Rock Rover! I think that would be a super invention. Let's see, who can we get to make those for us?
I never thought about them picking up driftwood for firewood. How long does it take for it to dry out before you can actually burn it?
Cliffs here they call the bluffs, they errode pretty bad, sand
and glacial till. There use to be many places years ago to
drive down to the beach. Now there are less access points.
Number of years ago the people of Nikiski and others
fought to have a gate removed from one beach everyone
used. Forget what company put it up.
Yeah some could take awhile to dry, but most burns
pretty good it's so dry. We use to sit on the beach
around summer solstice and have a nice fire with
it, some made for a nice seat and others a wind break.
The pieces I got a few weeks ago are already dry, but
they are not real big. Look like critter shapes, clubs
and some nice walking sticks.
2005 fireman below 🔥 :-)
Driftwood burns good lol
Oh, it looks toasty warm! And easier than cutting and splitting!
Thank you @melinda010100!
We sure love looking for rocks along the beach!
One beach is by far the best for finding quite a
few, it has more gravels vs sand. Up by the
Nikiski docks, these jaspers came from there.
It's great exercise, with rocky rewards lol
I really miss being able to go out rock hunting. The last time I tried it I used a cane to walk on the beach and that does not work out well! I did pick up a few rocks though!
I'm dreaming of a heated beach buggy with a glass bottom
window and a automated agate arm to pick them up, kinda
like a rock rover lol, we need a fleet of them and go hunting!
Do they allow ATV's and other motorized vehicles on the
beaches around the great lakes?
It's gotten harder for us to go as far as we use to years ago
and the weather has put a halt to many lookings for rocks.
Mostly we go and take a few photos, perhaps a fast look.
If there was a storm like recently I grab some cool looking
driftwood while the grabbings good! Few days later and
a lot of it was cut up and taken for firewood.
Many the beaches are down below the cliffs. Some places had handicap accessible walkways and ramps to get to waterfalls in down to beaches but I don't think you could take motorized vehicles out on the beach. I know my mobility scooter would certainly not be heavy duty enough to make it on the rocks or in any sand. A Rock Rover! I think that would be a super invention. Let's see, who can we get to make those for us?
I never thought about them picking up driftwood for firewood. How long does it take for it to dry out before you can actually burn it?
Cliffs here they call the bluffs, they errode pretty bad, sand
and glacial till. There use to be many places years ago to
drive down to the beach. Now there are less access points.
Number of years ago the people of Nikiski and others
fought to have a gate removed from one beach everyone
used. Forget what company put it up.
Yeah some could take awhile to dry, but most burns
pretty good it's so dry. We use to sit on the beach
around summer solstice and have a nice fire with
it, some made for a nice seat and others a wind break.
The pieces I got a few weeks ago are already dry, but
they are not real big. Look like critter shapes, clubs
and some nice walking sticks.
Much of the southern shore of Superior is sandstone, but the northern shore is Canadian Shield.
I would love to have a campfire on the beach! Collecting driftwood sounds like fun.
Did you see this fire photo yesterday? :-)
I have out of town company staying for a few days and I feel like I am missing far too much here!