My wheels of industry are cranking – both my Lortone rotary rock tumblers and my Thumler vibratory rock tumbler are set and going to work on some of my BC rocks.
Setting the rock tumblers
Month: July 2014
Whale bone?
Assisted by her inherent luckiness, my girlfriend found an incredible rock while we were kayaking on Vancouver Island yesterday.
Opening a rock tumbler is like Christmas
Finding rocks is the first Christmas, and then taking them out of your rock tumbler is the second.
Rockhound Spidey sense
Either my mind is retroactively making up a nice story or I really have had a rockhounding “Spidey sense” before a good find.
Rockhounding takes a warmup
Low tide rockhounding at my favourite beach
I got out to my favourite local beach on Vancouver Island today in Nanoose Bay. It’s my favourite because of its privacy and bounty of great rocks, like our local jasper Dallasite and attractive porphyry Flowerstone.
Big Flowerstone and Dallasite!
Beach rockhounding on Vancouver Island
Today I rock hounded at a stretch of beach just off the highway between Nanaimo and Parksville on Vancouver Island.
Kayak-hounding Dallasite and Flowerstone
Vancouver Island is burning hot right now and my girlfriend and I decided to cool off by going kayaking at our favourite beach with her dogs.