Come Out, Come Out Where Ever You Are..

Minneapolis, Minnesota
May 29, 2016 4:41pm CST
We drove about 3 1/2 hours one way for nothing it seemed like.. My son and I decided to make a trip up to Two Harbors, Duluth for some prime agate hunting but when we got to our destination it was nothing but a pile a dumb ordinary rocks but on the up side the view was amazing. Just as we were about to leave the city we decided to do some exploring around to see if we could find a gravel pit and jackpot we did. There was a huge sign saying No Trespassing and No agate Picking and right then we knew we found a place to pick up agates! We were there for about and hour and found a good amount of agates, they were pretty hard to find at first but once we got into it we kept on finding them. Now we have a start on our agate collection and I can only see it getting bigger! Do you have an good places to find beautiful rocks where you guys are?
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@cpefley (1926)
• San Jose, California
29 May 16
That is so cool!
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• Minneapolis, Minnesota
29 May 16
I wish I could find some amethysts, those are stunningly gorgeous
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@cpefley (1926)
• San Jose, California
30 May 16
@Castlerock34 That would be awesome. I love amethysts. Our of 6 kids, I never got a February baby, so I don't have an amethyst in my birth stone necklace lol. I do have 2 in March, one is on the 3rd. So close!! lol
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• Minneapolis, Minnesota
30 May 16
@cpefley whew 6 kids you go girl! they are gorgeous. My birthstone is the dumb periodot a light colored green for August :-(
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@toniganzon (72281)
• Philippines
30 May 16
I have no idea. I was never interested in rocks. But we do have beautiful rivers, waterfalls, and beaches here.
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@toniganzon (72281)
• Philippines
30 May 16
@Castlerock34 Yeah i think so. Just didn't look for them. I like corals better than rocks though.
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• Minneapolis, Minnesota
30 May 16
I bet you guys do! I bet you could find all sorts of goodies where you live
• Minneapolis, Minnesota
30 May 16
@toniganzon I do too! I love being around or in the ocean and or course the stuff that comes out if it is beautiful. You are so lucky to live in such a beautiful place
@Tampa_girl7 (50250)
• United States
30 May 16
We must have a trillion in our backyard
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• Minneapolis, Minnesota
30 May 16
Haha thats awesome, send some over here
@Jdaw1985 (3967)
• Harrells, North Carolina
29 May 16
I do not look for rocks like that but I am glad that you were able to spend time with your son.
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• Minneapolis, Minnesota
29 May 16
He loves rocks and I bought him a rock polisher for his birthday a while ago so he is amped to use it whenever he finds a pretty rock ;-)
@Jdaw1985 (3967)
• Harrells, North Carolina
30 May 16
@Castlerock34 Oh that is great. None of mine are into them I wish they were.
@akalinus (43196)
• United States
30 May 16
When I was a kid out west, we picked a lot of stones in the mountains. We found arrowheads in the desert. We found great stones in the Rockies, agates, geodes, quartz and other kinds. We have found fossils, too. In NY state, we found a lot of fossils in rest areas and near creeks. We found trilobite fossils in a road bed. my kids took them to school and we never saw them again.
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@akalinus (43196)
• United States
30 May 16
@Castlerock34 Or the teachers took them. They were pretty rare. I think our road used to be an inland sea many long years ago. We found seashell and plant fossils as well.
• Minneapolis, Minnesota
30 May 16
Wow that would be pretty awesome to find all that stuff! I bet the kids in school took them home as souvenirs :-(
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@KristenH (33386)
• Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
29 May 16
That's a beautiful agate. Not that I know of.
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@KristenH (33386)
• Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
30 May 16
@Castlerock34 It is. I still have my mother's agate she got from a museum back in New Jersey. I have about 4 of them here.
• Minneapolis, Minnesota
29 May 16
They truly are beautiful
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