A little pile of Jasper for Fridays rock
These are found on our beaches, they
are really smooth and slick some are
mixed with some agate areas
Negative would be interesting to find!
Shades of grey is a pluntyful
color on the beach
Ripple rocks, if one falls in the water
it might be lost!
13 photos in one animated loop
Kaleidoscope and colors made with
paint shop pro
Loop and ripple made with Lunapic
Camera phone G7 Samsung
Location • Nikiski Alaska
Rocking Posts
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by me @shasta
November 2nd 2018
11:47 PM Alaska
Take Good Care Everyone
Enjoy ❤ღ And Stay Awesome
Thank you for joining in on #fridaysrock.
When I first started looking for agates, sometimes I would find jasper and think it was an agate. The one on the left is my favorite of the ones that you found. And I really like the photo with the moving water...very cool and fitting for what you were showing.
You are most welcome and thank you for
having such a wonderful day tag to look
forward to 💕 @nat-expressions! :-)
I need to round up more of my rocks
to show you and others, try and get
some closer up shots. That ripple effect
is so cool with some photos, I really
love it and I'm happy you do also!
Looking forward to see what you post next. :)
@shasta
Did you tumble them to get that smooth appearance? The colors are amazing.
Those are all totally natural, found like that! :-)
They do look like they had some tumbling don't
they 💎 @solominer!
The beaches here really rock them! lol
The color is real close to exactly what they look
like to me, the phone camera did pretty good
with the reds on them.
Looks like something one of my sick cats would leave behind. :-)
Oh deer! lol
That is nice that you can walk along the beach and find such beautiful jasper.
It really is 💎 @jacey.boldart! :-)
There so many different pretty rocks here
tho the beach walking is not always the best
weather for rock hunting, to wet or cold
and full of ice and snow lol
But when its good its great, right sun angle
and eyeballs working. Our best every day
was 200 + agates in the pouch, lots of jaspers
and some black and white stones that look cool.
WOW... 200+ That is just too good !
Great finds @shasta! I'm waiting for the day when you post about the tumbled gold nugget you found on the beach!
Thank you @rt395! I'm waiting to :-)
Wouldn't that be something and it could
possibly happen! Keep looking up and down!
Rocks from space are pretty pricey also lol
We might of picked up something here worth
a lot and not even know it!
Those are great specimens and all of them are very nice finds! Beach combing treasures!
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? :-)