This Popular Michigan Fossil Hunting Location is FULL of Incredible Fossils!

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  • Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
  • Back to one of my favorite fossil hunting locations, and the best thing is ANYONE can come hunt for fossils here at Rockport Quarry in Alpena, Michigan!
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Комментарии • 133

  • @melissalease5476
    @melissalease5476 Год назад +31

    And anyone not familiar with fossils could walk through there and not realize they’re walking over the fossils thinking nothing of it.

    • @billrobbins5874
      @billrobbins5874 10 месяцев назад +2

      Beautiful area and fossils. 👍

    • @bacongod4967
      @bacongod4967 8 месяцев назад

      Crazy but true

    • @bacongod4967
      @bacongod4967 8 месяцев назад

      When i first started out, I couldn’t find anything, but now it’s impossible for me not to find anything

  • @marybeth6272
    @marybeth6272 Год назад +3

    Awesome!!! I love Petoskey rocks and fossilized corals. Excellent song too! Thanks for sharing it with us 😊Love Michigan ❤️ 😍 ❤

  • @cynthiaswearingen1037
    @cynthiaswearingen1037 Год назад +9

    My goodness, so many fossils, so many different ones! Sweet finds, Kyle!!! I hope your mom is doing well!❤

  • @catherinewilliams3850
    @catherinewilliams3850 Год назад +6

    Just amazed at the quantity and quality of fossils, wish we had places like that here in Wales UK.Your videos are fun and educational, you have some great friends. You have a lovely voice, I like your music and Happy Birthday for tomorrow.

    • @abbywilson5988
      @abbywilson5988 Год назад +1

      The UK has some of the most amazing fossils! Dorset is next door.

  • @JaneEllenMusic
    @JaneEllenMusic Год назад +5

    Unfreakin'believable!!! I would never be able to drag myself away. Congrats on finding so many awesome fossils! 💙💙

  • @kellyharper367
    @kellyharper367 Год назад +1

    Old disabled house bound dusty rusty rockhound here: I wish I was able to get out to that place...it looks like fossil heaven!

  • @wenditaylor9708
    @wenditaylor9708 Год назад +4

    This was fun!! So close to home! Some of those horn corals are perfect poop emojis! 💩
    Never stop being you! You are beautiful and you bring joy and adventure to people that can't do these things anymore! 😊

  • @robertl6196
    @robertl6196 Год назад +1

    I haven't been here in 30 years. Glad to see it hasn't changed much if any.

  • @fionanorth1811
    @fionanorth1811 Год назад +2

    Dear Kyle, a longtime ago, when I’d been a subscriber and enjoyed your videos for quite a while, I commented that while I enjoyed your presentations, sometimes you acted too much like a yahoo. That comment may have hurt at the time, and it certainly gathered some spirited defence from other followers. At the time I felt that sometimes your boyish enthusiasm overwhelmed your great content and knowledge, and unless we occasionally receive criticism, we might miss an opportunity to self evaluate.
    Any way, my comment today is that your videos, and the spirit that shows through them, is so lovely. No reasons to criticise now, I could probably even cope with an occasional reappearance of duckman, as I’m sure you know that your strength is not just in being a funny man.
    I’m also enjoying your music. Nice work.

    • @WILDKYLE
      @WILDKYLE  Год назад +1

      Hi Fiona! This comment really means the world to me. Thank you. I appreciate your willingness to be honest. I'm glad to hear you've been enjoying the videos and my music! ❤️

  • @michiganpreparedness
    @michiganpreparedness Месяц назад

    love Rockport State Park ..... great for swimming from the abandoned ship docks...

  • @melissajohnson1563
    @melissajohnson1563 Год назад +2

    Happy Birthday Kyle! You share a birthday with my hero and the best man I have ever known, my dad. He would’ve been 80 today.
    Loved your song ‘This town is gonna swallow you whole’ makes me think of Gainesville haha!

  • @aletaarmstrong4340
    @aletaarmstrong4340 3 месяца назад

    Loved the fossils,and the song. You have a beautiful voice..

  • @icatz
    @icatz Год назад +2

    There's an area in my state where at 7,000 feet you can be walking on nothing but agatized horn coral. The inland sea stretched down to northern AZ, 400-350 mya. It's a great feeling, isn't it, walking thru prehistoric times? TFS ❤️🎸🏏

  • @nothingsnew184
    @nothingsnew184 10 месяцев назад

    Müziksiz olması çok güzel olmuş bu video.Yürürken çıkan çakıl taşlarının sesi,çekiş sesi,hışırtı sesi gerçekten bir terapi.

  • @Catrina3732
    @Catrina3732 Год назад +1

    This is so cool!!! Im from and live in west Michigan, and have basically spent my childhood collecting rocks. I lived right by a gravel pit, and I was content to do it all day long. Funny thing is, my father in law owned several gravel pits in the area. Small world sometimes. It’s fun to see what you can find in Michigan. Also, cool thing here, all you have to do is search your landscape rocks.
    Keep coming to Michigan! Love watching and learning from your videos!

  • @largent45
    @largent45 Год назад +2

    You l had the most amazing time! Your finds were incredible! I hope you got a chance to collect a piece of that stromatolite. They are the coolest fossils! And the fossils you guys found at the beach were amazing too! What an amazing time! Thanks for sharing Kyle!

  • @xyzabc847
    @xyzabc847 2 месяца назад +1

    I was there last month with the MMS and Paleo Joe. Found plenty of cool fossils.

  • @laurenconradie5328
    @laurenconradie5328 Год назад +2

    Another wonderful video, Kyle. ❤Your videos are so soothing to watch after a long busy day. Happy happy birthday for tomorrow, I hope that it is a truly wonderful day for you. Michigan is on the bucket list so hopefully 1 day I can find meself some ancient treasures for my collection. 🤞

    • @WILDKYLE
      @WILDKYLE  Год назад +1

      Thanks so much Lauren! I'm glad they can be enjoyable for you after a long day! Thanks for the birthday wishes!

  • @CretaceousCora
    @CretaceousCora Год назад +1

    This is so cool! Looks like so much fun. Adding to my bucket list!

  • @lisa-fg8zh
    @lisa-fg8zh Год назад

    Thank you, now I know what I found as a kid many decades ago near traverse city shoreline! My daughter still has in her china cabinet. So cool.😊

  • @deniseveiw7992
    @deniseveiw7992 9 месяцев назад

    Absolute beauty. Cool fossils. Michigan is a beautiful state. I've lived here ally life.

  • @richconroy5559
    @richconroy5559 Год назад +1

    To those of you playing the Wild Kyle Brachiopod Drinking Game(TM), you have my condolences for that bit right up front.
    It's going to be a tipsy video, everybody.

  • @obieobrien5883
    @obieobrien5883 Год назад +2

    I hope you send Rob from Michigan rocks, some of the raw hexagonaria

  • @marierowe5969
    @marierowe5969 Год назад +1

    Love the fossils love u and your music ..keep going ...xxxx ...your vids are great .can't do fossil hunting like u do here in the uk

  • @joedadbod8450
    @joedadbod8450 Год назад

    Great video, my friend! I have been finding very similar material in southwest Ohio recently before I just came back to Arkansas. It's so neat to hold history in your hands.

  • @codypontzius1184
    @codypontzius1184 Год назад

    Can't wait for you and paleo cris to come to Indiana

  • @gloriamcdermott3174
    @gloriamcdermott3174 7 месяцев назад +1

    Love the music at the end

  • @BingShing
    @BingShing 7 месяцев назад

    Did she say “sprinkle sprinkle” LOVE IT!!! #Shera

  • @Ddelfossils
    @Ddelfossils 5 месяцев назад

    Was out there earlier this month, found some fragments of boreolepis with my friend. Very cool site.

  • @paulbettenga6202
    @paulbettenga6202 Год назад +1

    Great video Kyle! I love that there are so many really cool fossils in my state! I am also impressed with your musical talent. Reminds me of some of Chris Ledoux's slower ballads. Good stuff man! Keep it up!

  • @audraacklin9826
    @audraacklin9826 Год назад +1

    Awesome tunes, man!! The fossils aren't bad either! ❤️❤️😃

  • @heathervannatter364
    @heathervannatter364 Год назад +1

    Horn coral looks like the sorting hat from HP. 😊

  • @Dino24563
    @Dino24563 Год назад +2

    It's such a great location

    • @WILDKYLE
      @WILDKYLE  Год назад

      Can't get enough of it!

  • @laurieowen8696
    @laurieowen8696 Год назад +1

    Sweet! Nice ending.

  • @naomimakin1908
    @naomimakin1908 Год назад +2

    Foldy rock😂 not heard it called that before, love it 🎉

  • @melindahawk8540
    @melindahawk8540 Год назад +1

    Another adventure through watching you! Hope your moms doing well.

  • @kennypowers3984
    @kennypowers3984 Год назад +3

    Kyle and the gang never disappoint. Love the videos. Also, you can sing your arse off!!! Did you win that competition?

    • @WILDKYLE
      @WILDKYLE  Год назад +2

      I checked that the other day and apparently it is going until sometime in July! I'll make another post soon so folks remember to go vote more!

    • @kennypowers3984
      @kennypowers3984 Год назад +1

      @@WILDKYLE Best of luck!! ⭐

  • @markattardo
    @markattardo Год назад +1

    Awesome hunt. Fun video👍👍

  • @fossilswede
    @fossilswede 6 месяцев назад

    Interesting and fun video as always! 👍👍

  • @heidikoester
    @heidikoester Год назад

    Oh wow, what a dreamy location! 😍 I live in Milwaukee, Wisconsin near Lake Michigan, but I don’t find as many spectacular Fossels like you are finding 🙂

  • @patscnr
    @patscnr Год назад

    That is an awesome looking area. I love rocky areas like that. Really cool fossils.

  • @mirkatu3249
    @mirkatu3249 Год назад +1

    Fun! :-)

  • @jackieforestieri3010
    @jackieforestieri3010 Год назад

    Great voice, great song Kyle!

  • @chrisbgifford7387
    @chrisbgifford7387 Год назад +1

    So all of this was under a glacier or the great lakes were more of a sea? They are some really amazing fossils you have found. I wish you could spell some of these fossils and the sea name. It makes it easier to armchair research. Happy birthday, I turned 60 this year, a new decade. future is exciting!

  • @patriciabock4299
    @patriciabock4299 Год назад

    Love the choice of your music! Great video!

  • @valsummers5330
    @valsummers5330 Год назад

    Sweet! Rock hunting and
    Love the shameless self promotion!
    Beautiful song

  • @margieblackburn8445
    @margieblackburn8445 Год назад

    I always wonder what the world looked like in that time the fossils sure tell a story i love to know

  • @Jwaxx
    @Jwaxx Год назад

    Happy Birthday Kyle!
    Happy hunting!
    ❤❤❤❤

  • @eyupchuck1235
    @eyupchuck1235 Год назад +1

    Why when I see the horn coral fossils do I always think of Patrick Star 😂 from SpongeBob (if you know, you know!) 😂😂

  • @patty4091
    @patty4091 Год назад

    You all needed an ATV, if for no other reason to carry your lovely finds back! 😂

  • @Kk-md5xr
    @Kk-md5xr Год назад +1

    Hey Kyle nice to see you back in MI.
    Did you attend Kyle Fair in Kyle TX last month?
    Your music would have been a perfect addition for all the Kyle's.

  • @athelwulfgalland
    @athelwulfgalland Год назад

    As cool as this site is I still think I prefer the sheer variety of fossils you recover in Florida! :) Still it was a great hunt, thanks for sharing.

  • @lisacates4185
    @lisacates4185 Год назад

    Your voice is awesome ❤🎉

  • @cosmicbackwoods
    @cosmicbackwoods Год назад +1

    you got a nice singing voice my dude

  • @brandonmyers4078
    @brandonmyers4078 Год назад +3

    Mr Kyle as always I’m looking forward to watching and hope your doing well and also I hope your mom is!! Sending blessings from the UK 🇬🇧

    • @WILDKYLE
      @WILDKYLE  Год назад +1

      Thanks so much my friend!

  • @graemero5532
    @graemero5532 Год назад +1

    Great video.

  • @howardwest1347
    @howardwest1347 Год назад

    Love the song!!

  • @megankimber8772
    @megankimber8772 Год назад +5

    Hey, this is Megan…..This was so exciting! I’m glad you have some friends along with you to be able to share the fossil gleeee! You have been finding such rich, plentiful fossil 🎉places lately. I’m happy for you! And it helps me build up my Michigan bucket list…oooo yeah all about travel and fossils and pretty colored stones along the shore, me want LOT OF IT. DREAMING!!
    Planning to meet up with some people with similar interests and go from there. Toot toot!

  • @astrialindah2773
    @astrialindah2773 7 месяцев назад

    I really loved your video but wondered if you could be conscious of slowing down your camera...😜 I've been to that quarry many times and it is so much fun!

  • @jordanvanwinkle8950
    @jordanvanwinkle8950 Год назад

    Kyle please take me and my husband with you the next time you go to this place,.
    Just kidding, not kidding, but seriously we love to find these types of fossils here in Adams County, Mississippi it's very rare to find the Petoskey coral but we do infact find them and also the Rugose corals, the crinoids and some times we find the horse teeth too. On a serious note we would love to go with you one day on one of your adventures to find the fossils that you show on your videos. Thank you for sharing them with us.

  • @karlaconroy2099
    @karlaconroy2099 10 месяцев назад

    Reminds me so much of a couple quarry areas in Ohio and couple other spots near a river...I have been lucky over the last few decades .The weird stuff in the water in your video reminds me of something I saw near Lake Erie last year. It was yuck.

  • @andrewwong3825
    @andrewwong3825 Год назад +1

    👍

  • @SandyFielding-cl4dc
    @SandyFielding-cl4dc Год назад

    Hey Dude. We love Ur channel and my husband an I love Rock an fossil hunting and we've found crystal rocks and NO1 nos there there and we've picked up a lot of druzy crystal rocks. We think of y'all when we're out and would love 2 share the crystals. Haven't a way 2 get n touch with U but the crystals r all n the ditch and n the dirt rd. We spend hrs out there and the crystals shine like diamonds . Between Ga an Fla. Nutting spectacular but we have a ball everytime we go. Red clay sticky dirt rd. We've got awesome funds. Love U guys. Praying 4 y'all's safety and God bless. 🙂

  • @paleo1019
    @paleo1019 Год назад +1

    Randy Blood is he's name right!? Awesome Geologist!

  • @RayEllaHoover
    @RayEllaHoover Год назад

    Cool fossils !!

  • @kevinhullinger8743
    @kevinhullinger8743 4 месяца назад

    Rocks cannot be dated

  • @SaltwaterSean
    @SaltwaterSean Год назад

    I love all your videos Kyle. Would love to join forces some day. I think you'd love it here in Nova Scotia. Welcome anytime.

  • @bw-ey4gp
    @bw-ey4gp 11 месяцев назад +1

    Are you from Alpena? This is crazy, my gramps worked that quarry in the 1950s, 60s, 70s.

    • @WILDKYLE
      @WILDKYLE  11 месяцев назад +1

      I'm not from Alpena, but I was born in Saginaw, MI!

    • @bw-ey4gp
      @bw-ey4gp 11 месяцев назад

      So cool! My dads old stomping grounds. I'm in Clearwater and watch you, Rob, and Justin all the time. We don't have a ton of creeks but Alligator Creek was rerouted 100+ ago and am going today....holy god you just found a ground hutch in the vid I'm watching!!!

    • @bw-ey4gp
      @bw-ey4gp 11 месяцев назад

      Your video when you found those straight side Gainesville Cokes is probably the peak of how exited you sound. Can you remember that feeling? So cool!

  • @fizur2002
    @fizur2002 9 месяцев назад

    I can only imagine how nightmarish that horn coral would be to boaters/swimmers if it existed today.

  • @This_Time_Next_Year_Rodney
    @This_Time_Next_Year_Rodney Год назад +1

    What do you do with all the horn coral you collect?

  • @brianwalker9185
    @brianwalker9185 Год назад +1

    Golden piped rockhound....

  • @mclane606
    @mclane606 Год назад

    Does the Southside of Alpena still smell like burnt tires and woodchips? I lived there on commercial street for 10 years 😊

  • @nanak2025
    @nanak2025 Год назад

    We are heading thru that part of Michigan later this fall, do you need to get special permission to go in that area Kyle?

  • @charlesrowe9183
    @charlesrowe9183 11 месяцев назад

    I invited Bryan Major the crystal collector, to join me on finding crinoid fossils and horn corals, I've found maybe 10 thousand perfect crinoid fossils and horn corals at my favorite place, this place is huge, and I haven't even scratch the place, there's maybe a million of them, and you are welcome to join me Mr Wild Kyle

  • @conniecraddock8481
    @conniecraddock8481 Год назад

    So how do you clean off the outer matrix

  • @kiyarnmyers2429
    @kiyarnmyers2429 Год назад +1

    um...goop

  • @overland.viking
    @overland.viking Год назад +1

    Awesome video. Your explorations are always so interesting.

  • @SweetPeaSaid
    @SweetPeaSaid Год назад

    Do you hunt in Northwest Florida?

  • @robertalderman1297
    @robertalderman1297 Год назад

    Living it through you brother!

  • @djpitr
    @djpitr 5 месяцев назад

    Pretty cool ,I will be in the area in couple months , any way you can pin point me how do I find this place

  • @Angrath
    @Angrath Год назад

    It's a shame you didn't find any brachiopods or horn corals.

  • @30somethingnothing
    @30somethingnothing Год назад

    Bet it's nice not having to worry about gators....

    • @karlaconroy2099
      @karlaconroy2099 10 месяцев назад

      I always think I am lucky in Ohio to not worry about scary animals...during day anyways..maybe Coyote at night .But nothing where I am to worry about .Maybe humans ...lol

  • @SonOfVulkan
    @SonOfVulkan Год назад +1

    Shame we cant tell what colours those corals used to be. Also why no shark teeth?

    • @WILDKYLE
      @WILDKYLE  Год назад +1

      That's really crazy to imagine!

    • @SonOfVulkan
      @SonOfVulkan Год назад +1

      It would be awesome to see all those little polyps swaying away

  • @labeef1953
    @labeef1953 3 месяца назад

    Too bad no trilobites!

  • @danamosley
    @danamosley Год назад

    I would need a wheelbarrow at least!!!

  • @bromethiustrilbotbromeldeh6625

    Mannnnnn, snitching on the good spots.

  • @Crumbcat4life
    @Crumbcat4life Год назад +1

  • @Wanous-hv7zo
    @Wanous-hv7zo Год назад

    390 million year old ha ha ha ha ha

    • @WILDKYLE
      @WILDKYLE  Год назад +1

      Yep! The Traverse Group of the Middle Devonian is about 380-390 million years old!

  • @barrypoontang
    @barrypoontang Год назад +2

    was that a sponge or something at 4:30 just to the left under the one you pick up?

  • @claudebernardin1096
    @claudebernardin1096 Год назад +1

    How does a viewer who lives about 4 and 1/2 hours from there find out this location to go there? Would somebody please e mail me some specifics? Pretty please with cherries on top.

    • @WILDKYLE
      @WILDKYLE  Год назад

      Hey! Type Rockport Quarry into your maps and it'll come up :)

  • @shannonreynolds4423
    @shannonreynolds4423 Год назад +2

    Thanks Kyle for being so full of light and love! I’ve learned quite a bit from you. You also have a wonderful singing voice I just learned. ❤

  • @mariemoss2475
    @mariemoss2475 Год назад +1

    Some of those corals look like little Wizards hats , what a beautiful place... another great video 💕💕💕💕

  • @beckiburke781
    @beckiburke781 Год назад +1

    Congratulations on your Album. Don’t ever hang up your hat 🙃

  • @esztervizi7202
    @esztervizi7202 Год назад

    Greetings from Somerset UK. I was wondering if you had seen any Mud Fossil Uni videos. If so what are your thoughts, I would be very interested to know?
    Love your films and cheerfulness..

  • @philmuller8069
    @philmuller8069 7 месяцев назад

    Do those hexagonaria coral , fluores with black light? I see the rock hunters around Lake Superior using black lights - and they find coral a lot.

  • @leslyeschoenhuth1107
    @leslyeschoenhuth1107 Год назад

    * So few crinoid stems.. ~ Hexagonaria fill with agate or chalcedony & that is what polishes.. not the coral framework..

  • @joannhempen8210
    @joannhempen8210 Год назад

    Did u move from Florida? Did I miss something. Lol ❤ Thanks for all the amazing videos!!

  • @a1971-d6d
    @a1971-d6d Год назад

    10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
    11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
    12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
    13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
    14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
    15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

  • @geoWhite
    @geoWhite Год назад +1

    I enjoy your videos but I must say you have an amazing voice. take care

  • @calysta8439
    @calysta8439 Год назад +1

    Pretty sure that orange spongy growth in the water was Xanthoria Lichen.