Petoskey Stones Bigger than Your Head!
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- Опубликовано: 27 окт 2022
- Wild Kyle and I head to Rockport for fossil hunting, sinkhole exploring, and even a little time on the beach. Rockport has it all!
Here's a picture of the caisson I mentioned in the video: uplink.nmu.edu/islandora/obje...
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My prayers are with you Denise, may you receive a complete healing of your mind and body through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Peace be with you.
Thanks for the prayers, OG Fan When Star Wars was just Star Wars.
Kyle you are a good son helping your mother and supporting her. I know she must be grateful for you being there in Michigan.
Paused, prayed. God bless your mom and you as you go through this. Isn’t it a blessing to have good friends to rock hound with. Enjoy this channel so much.
Thanks for the prayer, Deborah.
Every time I happened to be scrolling my subscription list on here, I come across a new video of yours. I just want to say how much I love your videos and I appreciate the time and effort you put into it all.
Thank you, Cam. I appreciate being appreciated!
@@MichiganRocks We appreciate you being appreciative of our appreciation! 😉
@@MrTurtleMontana You win, Will.
Honored to pray for your mom, Kyle. ☦️ What a blessing she has you to love and support her.
Thanks, Tina.
I hope your mother is doing better Kyle I pray for her. Thank you for another great show Rob. Just imagine if them rocks could talk.
Thanks for the prayers, John.
Old disabled house bound dusty rusty rockhound here: Wow! What a sacred place! The cycles of life and time keep moving forward as you walk through the remains of life gone before! The same sun that shown upon them now shines upon you... and the spiral continues...
The fossil area and the sinkholes are very interesting. I would love to see them both. Prayers for Kyle's mom. My mom had cancer 15 years ago and we are thankful to still have her here. I will be praying for Kyle's mom.
That's a nice, hopeful message. Thanks for the prayers.
A trip to Rockport is never a bad time. Such a great snapshot into earth's past and life in the Michigan Basin. We certainly understand your situation, Kyle. Nat lost her mom a few years ago to cancer and it was definitely a rollercoaster of emotions. Hang in there, guy....
It's a fun place. There's something there for everyone.
I'm sorry that Nat had to lose her mom that way. I guess there's no good way though.
Sorry to hear that about Nat's mother Capt Paul! Too many families lose someone from cancer.
Prayers for Denise♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Thanks, Michelle.
Prayed for you and your mom, Kyle
Thank you, Rose.
Super interesting video. I gotta plan the trip up there. I'm from Indiana and I tend to spend most my "Up North time" in the UP.
I think I would be a little freaked out hiking around sinkhole areas, even though those are "old ones." I already get enough flack from my daughter about my solo MI trips to hound remote beaches. I have quit telling her when I am heading out to hike in new woods - lol.
Kyle, I said a prayer for the best possible outcome for your mom, and I added her to my prayer list for complete healing. I put her down as "Kyle's mom from MI." ☺️ No need to know her name; God remembers all intentions!
Kyle's mom has been on my prayer list for months, since I first heard that she was sick. Thanks for adding her to yours too.
I really like the U.P. I'm more into agates and other "pretty rocks" than fossils. If you like fossils, Alpena is a great place to visit. Add Partridge Point to your list of spots to check out if you come here. Sytek park isn't bad either.
Whaaaaat? That's awesome!👍Really beautiful rock. -Kyle, I'm so sorry about your mom. Saying a prayer for healing and a most benevolent outcome for your mom 🙏💖
Thanks for the prayer, Kimberly.
@@MichiganRocks 👍👍👍
Love the chemistry between yourself/son/ and Kyle. Makes for an easy watch.
Another nice video. That one rock with the coral in it looked like chinese writing
Praying for Denice 😊. I just went through this with my husband . Been a year 10/25/22 . A six month treatment time . My prayers are for complete recovery and strength for the recovery time . May she find peace , and patience as she grows stronger ❤. The Lord Bless you Denice ! So happy you have time for helping your mom 🫂🥰. Enjoy your adventure out today 😁. Beautiful pics 🥰
Thank you for the prayer, Susan.
Good luck with your mother Kyle. I'm sure that your being there is a comfort for her.
Thanks guys
🙋♀️❤ Another very cool video! Sink holes, atmosphere, history and. ..South of the equator? Wow.
Prayers for Kyle and Denise🙏
Thanks for the prayers, Margaret.
Kyle, Am so sorry for your Mom. Hope she is not in deep pain. It is good of you to come as often as you can. Bless her & you for visiting..
Thanks for the prayers, Leslye.
Wow, you guys are sitting on an amazing time capsule. Best wishes with your Mother Kyle.
Said a prayer for her 🙏🏾
🙏🙏🙏 God bless you Denise, my thoughts and prayers are with you. You are going to beat this! 🙏🙏🙏💜💜💜
Thanks for the prayers, Kitty.
Prayers sent Kyle! I really enjoy these "Fossil in the Wild" kinds of videos where we see the fossil in the natural matrix.
Thanks for the prayers. Glad you liked the video. There are LOTS of fossils in the matrix at Rockport.
Sending many prayers, for your Mom, Denise. She’s been added to our prayer chain, for a full recovery! And thank you Rob & Kyle for your wonderful videos🙏🏼❣️
Thank you, Cynthia!
Prayers to Kyle’s mom for a complete recovery! I’ve been there and I remember the helpless feeling.
Thank you, Kim.
Sending prayers of healing for your mom and you. Stay positive as you can.
Give her lots of love and hugs. Trust me, it helps.❤
Thanks, Kendra.
So many interesting fossils to look at! Your trips there are always fun to watch. Doubly so when you're with Kyle and he puts out his own view of the trip👍👍
He is much more excited about fossils than I am. If I ever take him to a place with brachiopods, I know I'm going to be there for awhile! I love his enthusiasm though.
Best wishes, i hope your mom gets better soon Kyle! Glad you both found lots of really cool fossils! 😍🥰😇👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻💝
Praying for you as you support ur Mom. Praying for you Mom as she battles the beast-cancer!
Thank you, Maria.
So sorry to hear about your mother Kyle, I know how painful it is to have a loved family member having cancer. My prayers to your mother, you and your family 🙏❤️.
Thanks for the prayers, Marie.
Kyle - praying for comfort and healing for both you and your Mom during this time; your being with your mother certainly means a lot to her. Also want to say - another great video. Always enjoy tuning into Michigan rocks and seeing the latest - inspires me to look around New York area where I'm from to see what I can find.
Thanks for the prayers, Dale. I haven't hunted many places other than Michigan, so I don't know what's available in New York. New Jersey has some really good fluorescent stuff from what I've heard.
@@MichiganRocks Thank you for the response - always need to be supporting each other in prayer. Definitely lot's of granite (which I like) shale, quartz, and sand stones in NY, especially around Lake Ontario. All good things for my yard. Just starting to investigate stone polishing - will let you know if I have some exciting finds.
@@daleburns3907 Thanks. I'd like to get to Lake Ontario and Lake Erie someday. I have done lots of videos in the other lakes, but never in those two.
🙏🏻 to Denise. Thanks for another great video
Thanks, Christina.
Thoughts and prayers are being sent to Denise! Rob you take us to some awesome places and to have WildKlye with you makes it that much better! Thanks for sharing!
Having Kyle along is a lot of fun. We've become pretty good friends. Thanks for the prayers.
Sending prayers for your mom Kyle! I know how important it is taking care of your mom!
Thanks for praying, Margaret.
Saying a prayer for Kyle’s mom and wishing her a speedy recovery. We have only found one intact Crinoid stem over on our side of the lake. Talk about stuff growing in seemingly impossible places, I have a pile of ashes about 6 ft. high from the remains of my father in laws mobile fire in Mi. It has at least 6 really nice young pines growing in it. The sink holes are truly amazing, thanks for sharing ! 🎃
Thanks for the prayers, David.
That's weird that you don't find crinoid stems over there. They're thick in some places here.
Thanks for showing us Rockport. Last summer we drove out there but a huge downpour kept us from exploring it. Now I get it a little. Prayers for Denise!
That's a bummer that you got rained out. Thank you for the prayers for Denise.
Praying for Kyle's mom. And thanks for the video! It's always fun to see you with other rockhounds.
Thanks for the prayers, Mary.
I loved the “Brachiopods, It’s a Michigan thing.” Yes. I found mine on the railroad tracks that ran the borderlines of Hamtramck and Highland Park. Hundreds of beautiful whole specimens that were whole and mostly clean. I’d carry a dozen home each time we snuck onto the tracks, then had to keep quiet about them as Mom would know where I’d been.
Fossil contraband. Awesome.
I could sit there for hours in that quarry. Sending prayers to Kyles mom.
Thanks for the prayers, Darlene.
Kyle: I have been and will be praying for your Mom. I really appreciate Rob’s suggestion to pause the video and pray - I did just that.
Rob: I down in Rockport at the end of August and saw the same little blue flowers [at 4:00-4:15 on your video]. We have those in Cheboygan as well. They are “Lesser Fringed Gentians.” Cool rocks and beautiful flowers - God keeps showing-off 😉
I thoroughly enjoy both Rob’s and Kyle's videos. Keep up the good work guys!
Thanks for pausing for prayer, I appreciate it.
Someone else identified that flower as Lobelia Kalmii, which grows between cracks in limestone rocks according to this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobelia_kalmii
I went back to my video, but it's hard to tell which it is because the flowers weren't fully open and they were blowing around. I wish I had taken some still photos.
Sending love and prayers to your mom and you Kyle, much love, appreciate everything you do on here :)
Thank you, Crystal.
Prayers and healing vibes going out to Denise!
Thanks for the prayers.
That was a great adventure for me even though it was virtual I enjoyed it very much ! Thanks 💖
Shall pray for Kyle’s mom for sure 🙏🏻
Thanks for the prayers, Easter.
Your videos are so relaxing. This one especially. Really great stuff.
Also my best to Kyle's mother. I hope she gets better.
Thanks, Dr. Thompson.
prayers for you Kyle and your mom - and thanks for the great video Rob!
Thank you for the prayers, Maria.
Great pic of the area where the Cason’s were made 😊. I traced the bridge all my life . I was just a baby when the bridge was made . We have home “ Brownie “, movies of workers building . Love seeing home and share the video’s here in Nebraska with my sisters here .
My dad was raised in Curtis and born in Guild City . I still have family in Michigan. My husband an myself travel each year to visit family and friends . Nebraska has its own beauty, and I don’t miss the winters at all 😊. I love my agates from around Petoskey and Lake Superior . Thank you guys . A great video ! 😄
You just reminded me that I was going to put a link to a picture of one of the caissons in the description of the video. I'll do that now. Here it is: uplink.nmu.edu/islandora/object/nmu%3A46015
Wow ❤️, what a really neat place to explore.
Looks so remote.
Lots of lovely fossils to find.
So sorry to hear your mum is unwell Kyle, take care of yourself too, it can be a stressful time. ❤️❤️
I'll go check out your bottle hunting vid too, I like to bottle hunt too.
Kyle's videos are always fun, I think you'll enjoy them.
Prayers sent.
Thanks, Dale!
I am so with you....moss and rocks....how stunning!
My thoughts and prayers go out to Denise and Kyle.
Thank you for sharing this experience with us, Rob! Although I've never been there, I feel like I have now!
I think you're right, Rob - that would be a great place for some drone footage! I can only image the details you'd be able to see from that vantage point! It would also be cool to see the overall structure of the quarry, the cliffs, and the tailings.
Great video! Thanks again!
Hey Will, you can also check it out on Google Maps for a really good view of both the quarry and the sinkholes. goo.gl/maps/8mDPibu8nUPzZ9NK8
@@MichiganRocks Thanks for the link, Rob! I didn't even think about using Google Maps. It gives you a good perspective of just how large it is! The raised ridges that form the lines... are those just mounds of material from being dropped from a belly loader or something?
@@MrTurtleMontana I'm not sure exactly how those were formed, but there are raised rows all throughout the quarry.
Hey Kile! Sorry about your Mom. Good seeing you keeping up with keeping on.
VERY weathered...petoskey! Love fossils... prayers ...
Yes, they're pretty weathered here but not beach worn, so you can see the fossil details better.
My prayers are with you Denise may you get well soon.
Best of luck to Rob and Kyle
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Thanks for the prayers, Sophia.
I don't think I get a lot of viewers from Egypt. That's fun!
Best of luck Denise!!!
What an amazing place! Definitely on my wish list. Memorare prayer for Denise.🙏
Prayers are important. Thanks, Lynette.
Absolutely praying for your mother Kyle! Asking our second mother Mary to intervene with her Son!
Thanks, Jackie.
Sending prayers for Denise, Kyles mother. ❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏
Thank you. I'm hoping to get together with Kyle again soon.
Prayers sent regardless of time/circumstance. SO GLAD I found your channel!
Thanks for the prayers!
@@MichiganRocks Most our age now, been there. Tomorrow the hardware shop down the road opens. The sandpaper awaits, just hope it's close to as easy as the vid.
@@tymesho Good luck!
Everytime I pray I ask our Father for healing those who are sick and injured. I never know who I am playing for but, God does. Much ❤️ from Texas.
It's good to watch another excellent video from Michigan Rocks. Thank you for sharing.
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Thanks for the prayers, Michal.
Paused and prayed...hope you are comforted in some way since you both are being prayed for ❤️
Thanks for the prayers, Nancy.
I hope these prayers go all around the world! They probably do!
Excellent video, I am amazed at the size of the coral stones, thier just awesome! Thanks for taking us along!👍✌💖
Sink holes were a tad scarey after seeing what happens in Fla.
Kyle is from Florida and didn't seem to be worried. There are huge corals all over the quarry. Fun stuff.
You two never fail to deliver a great video. Lots to see and learn on this channel. The sinkholes were ginormous. My good thoughts are with Kyle's Mom.
I really enjoy hiking around looking for those sinkholes. I'm not sure why they amuse me so much, but they do.
Prayers to your Mom Denise .
Denise died a few months ago. I'm still praying for her soul.
Wow! What a great location for possible death plate matrix fossils. Spectacular video as always. Thnx! 🙏
There are huge death plate boulders here. I think you'd enjoy it.
Came across this video after one of my visits to Rockport- and I say this because you're allowed to take these fossils and there's more than plenty to go around- the petoskeys can be sanded and polished to look like any other petoskey. You have to make sure the fossil goes all the way through the rock, and it is a TON of work, but I have done it and they're awesome when they're done.
I have polished a few from here with less impressive results. The ones I did just looked like plain gray or black rocks after I ground off the three dimensional coral pattern. I'm glad you had better luck.
@@MichiganRocks I have found found some that kind of capped a petoskey, so it was just stone with an imprint, so I only grab ones where I can see the pattern continue on the side or bottom!
Kyle, Sending out an abundance of love, prayers and healing vibes to you and your mom. 🙏❤🙏
Thanks for the prayers.
Hi Rob and Wild Kyle! Kyle - all the love and strength to your mom. I had a different cancer (stage 4) and battled for 4 years and I'm finally in remission. With a really good team and a a positive attitude, she can beat this beast.
Thanks for the encouragement, Chris. It's nice to hear success stories.
@@MichiganRocks I won't say it was easy, but I tried to keep smiling when I could and a positive attitude. All my doctors and nurses could see I was a fighter. Hopefully, the doctors caught her cancer in the earlier stages. My best wishes to all.
Great video, I rereally enjoyed it. Thoughts and prayers for your wild friend Kyle.
I especially loved the tiny collection displayed on your hand. Just darling.
Thanks for the prayers, Sally.
Maybe I should start collecting only tiny rocks. Storage would be much easier!
And I think that sink hole with all the glacial rocks is a kettle, and you were standing on the kame.
@@sallythompson5071 Can you give me a timestamp from the video so I can see where you are taking about?
Prayers for Denise. Love and strength
Thanks.
Ive been praying for denise or 6 months and i dont plan on stopping. That was really cool! I love fossils. And those sink holes were really cool. It just wouldnt be michigan if there werent fossils everywhere! thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the prayers. I've had her on my daily prayer list since I heard she was sick too.
I'm praying for Kyle's mom. 🙏 May God bless her.
Thank you, Lisa.
Hope she gets better soon!
That was mindblowing on the amount of fossils in the quarry. Guess sinkholes can occur almost anywhere. Good vid.
That quarry and I think most quarries around here are full of fossils. The bedrock is limestone and that's where all the fossils are, so it's not surprising.
Love your videos ,nice big stone !
Thanks, Nikki.
Looks like fun! I haven't been there since I was a kid! Best wishes for your mom! Sending prayers!
Thanks for the prayers, Edie.
Prayers for Denise she’s now on my prayer list
Thanks for the prayers, Marijana.
Bless mom
Prayers sent for Denise and fam.
Thanks, Mountain Man.
Praying for Kyle's Mom and the family... Rob, on those big, rough ones, I've had pretty good luck grinding the best side with the KNC6. I will sometimes leave a few of the deeper pits where the eyes are. It's a pretty cool contrast. Haven't managed to grind everything off... yet. Great video. Thanks.
Thank you for the prayers, Dan.
You're getting your big Petoskeys from a different quarry on the west side of the state. I'll bet that makes a difference. I polished a big one from the LaFarge quarry which isn't too far away from here and it turned out pretty bad too. I'm sure there are some good ones mixed in, but after spending too much time for disappointing results, I have given up on quarry rocks from Rockport.
@@MichiganRocks I'll send you a couple of photos...
The maples are beautiful and yes so is the moss
Sink holes command respect. Great video! :)
We managed to not die. It would be easy to get hurt there though. There was a high school kid in Alpena who fell into a sinkhole and got seriously injured. There was a group at the Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center (Phelps Collins) training to do just this sort of rescue. While they were lifting the boy out of the sinkhole, they disturbed a bee hive and he also got stung. I think the probably learned his lesson that day.
Cool video!!!
Sending positive vibes your mother’s way Kyle. There’s some amazing fossil specimens there Rob. I’d love to go fossiking there someday.
Are you from Australia? I've heard Jesse from Rooking Rockhounding use the word "fossicking".
@@MichiganRocks nope. I’m Canadian. I just like the word lol!
Sorry, Greg. This message ended up in my spam folder somehow. I had no idea that Canadians used that word.
Really cool double Petoskey at 18:02!
This place is full of them.
Will be saying a prayer for Kyle’s Mom. Hope his visit provides her with the comfort she needs right now and that her treatment(s) will be helpful. That looks like a huge...... quarry. The sinkholes are so interesting. I do love rocks, a lot - but I love flowers even more. :) I think the flower you asked about is Lobelia Kalmii. It actually grows all the way up into Ontario. It was hard to see the stems but this plant has a long, slender stem, flower on the end, with linear leaves. The rocks provide protection and warmth and I can see it blooming into September in that location. It does like rocky areas and that is definitely rocky. Hope all is well with you and your family Rob. Thanks for sharing. You and Kyle make a great team.
Thanks for the prayer, Lis.
I love flowers too. One of my other hobbies is landscaping and gardening. I think you're right about the lobelia. I just looked up some pictures and the plant itself looks right. I found some taller ones down in the quarry after seeing the ones that were in this video.
Have you seen Jack Barnwell's videos? He does a lot of landscaping on Mackinac Island. I just love his work. ruclips.net/user/JackBarnwellDesignvideos
@@MichiganRocks Oh yes! Jack Barnwell is such an incredible landscaper architect/designer. I found his videos during Covid and wouldn’t miss one of them for anything. I lived in FL for quite a few years so tropicals are dear to my gardening heart, but I’m also a Northern girl and love all plants, shrubs, trees, especially wildflowers and anything that attracts/feeds pollinators. The gardens he designs and creates on Mackinac, upper MI and down around Naples, FL are just breathtaking. Watching Jack work is seeing an art form in motion; he’s in a league all of his own - and his brother, Emery, is a wizard with wood in any form.
@@ladikmk I think we agree! I don't watch his Florida stuff because that doesn't really apply to my yard, but the Michigan videos sure do.
I have started planting a lot of sweet woodruff because of Jack's love of it. One plant that he doesn't use is Canadian wild ginger which is another great ground cover for shade.
@@MichiganRocks Pretty sure Jack’s landscaping materials are focused on Proven Winners since he is a spokesman for them, and what is available for shipping to upper MI. It’s good to stick with plants that are indigenous to your area because that provides the most success in gardening. Plants for other Zones don’t typically do well, no matter how hard you try.
When it gets REALLY, REALLY cold, snowy, icy and you’re not grinding/cutting stones, you should take a look at his FL videos. They give me hope for Spring. :) Thanks for your comments Rob.
@@ladikmk He's definitely working with Proven Winners. They're even selling the Aquapots that he invented. I just did a search for sweet woodruff on their site and they don't sell that either, but he always uses it in shaded areas.
Great video! I always love visiting Rockport Quarry.
And to Kyle, I'll be sure to pray for you and your mom.
Thanks for the prayer, Nat.
Have you ever walked back to the sinkholes? Have you looked for gastropods on the beach? I might have asked you these things before, but I don't remember.
@@MichiganRocks I've never gone back to the sinkholes. I know there's some big gastropod fossils along the beach, but I haven't gone down there, either. I guess we'll have to do that next time!
My all time most favorite playground in our GREAT State!
Hey Rob thanks for another interesting video. It's definitely neat that so many plants have colonized that degraded landscape, and I think that the flowers you mentioned at 4:10 are a species of fringed gentian. I can't tell exactly but my guess is that they're something in the genus Gentianopsis. Very cool!
You're the third person to attempt to identify that flower. I know it's hard to do from my video with it blowing around and not very clear. You're the second to identify it as fringed gentian. The other one was Lobelia Kalmii, which is interesting because according to wikipedia, it grows in cracks in limestone rocks. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobelia_kalmii
I might need to drive back up to Rockport to get some better pictures!
Prayers for Denise.
Thanks, Rob.
I love that quarry Rob! If you go in the summer like I did, it’s hot with no shade. Bring water! Most people don’t realize how huge that place is. Knowing that quarry, I bet you walked several miles that day. And walking is not easy given the terrain. I need to get back up there again.
Yes, with no shade, it’s uncomfortable in the summer. Spring or fall is a better time to visit. This is only about fifteen minutes from my house, so I’ve been there often.
I have a gorgeous Petoskey pendant/charm that Rob made and I bought in the Christian bookstore in Alpena. I love it Rob and it is just beautiful! I have a silver charm bracelet that I put charms from places I travel to. It will remind me of our trip to Alpena and Rob.
I'm glad you like it! Thanks for buying one.
Kyle, prayers to you and your family.
Thanks!
Prayers for Denise!✝
Thanks!
This is amazing and beautiful
Sending prayers for Denise and Kyle. My husband, Mark, is also battling cancer. He has Stage 3 lung cancer. Sending all my prayers your Mom's way...
Thanks, Donna. I just said a prayer for Mark too.
Sending prayers up for your mom, Kyle! Love seeing the video after living in the UP till I was 16. Moved down with the trolls and always love these kind of vids. Brings back memories!!
Thanks for the prayers.
It's not that bad down here with us trolls, is it? Rockport is in the lower peninsula, on Lake Huron about two hours south of the bridge.
@@MichiganRocks , it's a great life no matter where we are in Michigan and trolls are certainly awesome people (not meant negatively!!). Rockport near Alpena always reminds me of the landscape near Iron Mountain and Menominee where I spent my youth. Lots and lots of sinkholes and gravel pits. I still have a small bin of the rocks I collected there on our farm along with small slabs of iron ore and some amethyst from up near copper harbor when we'd travel. Nothing jewel grade of course, just memories associated with each stone.
I just found this message in my spam folder. I don't know why it was flagged.
I'd love to be a Yooper, but I don't find the term "troll" to be offensive. I live under the bridge, so it's accurate. I wasn't aware that there were a lot of sinkholes in the U.P. I assume those are near Menominee? That's a part of the state I haven't been to much, if at all. I haven't been to the Iron Mountain area much either.
@@MichiganRocks , with the old iron mine in Iron Mountain it's more like old collapsed tunnels that are everywhere. I always think about that now that I live just north east of Detroit and the Detroit salt mines .... Just wonder when a tunnel might/will collapse. Hopefully never. 🙋🏻♀️
@@muriellord541 Oh, ok, that makes more sense. I've thought the same thing about Detroit.
Prayers said...on with fun!
Thanks for the prayers, Susie.
@@MichiganRocks Very Welcome.
Thanks for sharing, interesting place, but I miss the gentle rolling of the waves. Amazing how much stuff there is still there
There were a few waves at the very end just for you!
@@MichiganRocks thanks, I commented mid video, I should have waited 🤦♂️
I respect anyone rocking a Canadian tuxedo
I had to look that one up. Funny.
Always fun with Kyle. ‘So sorry his beautiful mom is ill. A coyote skull, even a pup, would not be so rounded on the cranium and the septum way more pointed. The quarry is a spooky place….but wat cool. Thanks for going. The drone shots will be awesome when they happen.
I'll get those drone shots one of these days. I'd love to do sort of an advertisement type video about Rockport, showing quick shots of all the fun things to do there. My son really enjoys biking there. There's a trail that goes along the top of the back of the quarry. I'd love to get a shot of my son riding along there from a drone flying over the quarry so that you could see that he was going along the top of a cliff. I think the sinkholes would look great from a drone too.
@@MichiganRocks get him to wear a bright color😀
@@savagesquirrel9828 Good idea.