I suffer from anxiety and seeing someone so happy to find little rocks makes my day

Camp management-----"where has all our gravel gone"? Ariel---- this has been a great holiday let's do it again next week.

part II is required! One may want to inquire where they get their crush from, and go look at the rocks before they go through the crusher. I imaging there is some amazing beauties in that stuff!

I think I've learned more about rocks from just a few of your videos than I thought there was to know, and your enthusiasm is delightful. Thank you for representing Minnesota so positively.

Your enthusiasm and excitement is infectious!!! So glad I follow you!!!

Of course we want to see a part 2! Thats incredible! Im so excited for you! Thats just amazing! Great hunt!

I’d DEFINITELY like to see a part 2 of this video! I love agates! 💜💜💜

This is so funny to me because living in Duluth I didn't know it was unusual for there to be agates everywhere. Our house is full of them, we pick them up everywhere we go. I probably find the most agates in the washing machine because the kids are always stuffing their pockets with them. 🤣 I end up throwing a lot of them into the landscaping rocks just to make space for the never-ending stream of new rocks. Glad you enjoyed your hunt, come back any time!

Love your enthusiasm. I vote for part 2 and a tumbled video if you choose to tumble them.

I went camping along the North Shore (Minnesota, Lake Superior) and I was AMAZED. Every beach was LOADED with agates.

You should do a itinerary for people who likes your content to come find stuff and make good memories. Maybe including a couple hotel reviews on smaller buisness. If I went on vacation to there to see some of the beauty there, I would much rather support smaller buisness. But cant really afford fancy either. Idk if you would offer group events to go looking and enjoy the day. But that would be cool too. You would have to be very careful doing that though. Maybe not a good idea more I think about it. I like Agatedad also. That region is on my bucket list to see one day. Kinda hard to talk my husband into going without a destination in mind.

I'm with you on this one. I live in a mineral rich, rockhounder's haven by the Skagit River and its tributaries in WA. State. The place is amazing but the absolute quickest rockscrounging for agates was in the gravel pile at the local landscape materials supply. Tip: When sleuthing for treasures this way, first go to a locale where such things are known to be found. This is because the gravel was harvested locally, due to transportation costs. Makes sense!, huh?

I live on California's North Coast We've got a State Park (location that most of Jurassic Park II Lost World was filmed) that has a beach known as Agate Beach. It's several miles long and visitors find lots of naturally ocean polished Agates some are small like these and some are much larger. They are STUNNING!!! I've got a Mason Jar full. I love hunting Agate!

I'm so jealous! 😂 I finally got to go to Duluth a couple weeks ago and only found a few small agates. So happy you hit the agate jackpot! Beautiful! 😊

Right on Ariel. Your energy and excitement are infectious.😎😎

I just found your channel and am SO glad I did. Love your content!

Good eye! Thank you for the tips.

Now I realize how I come across when talking about plants! So exciting!

Wow, Ariel! Your tumbler runneth over! That place was awesome. The quality and quantity of the agates there was incredible. That's a great day. And the one at 8:00 - the white part could be common opal if it's not just milky quartz. It's hard to tell from the video but we do get opal in the center of a number of agates here in Texas and when we hunt up in Montana every year. So here is the REAL challenge... since quarries classify gravels by size, and all the rocks in that park were relatively the same size, there is a quarry somewhere nearby where the park bought that gravel... and in that quarry are the larger gravels with the larger agates! Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to find that quarry or at least find places where that quarry is selling larger gravel - if they're using it for gravel roads there may be some enormous agates of incredible quality to be found. Also, if you guys ever make the trek to Texas, drop me a line - I'd be happy to introduce you to some good hunting spots where I shoot vids down here.

This was great. I was up by superior briefly (didn't get a lot of time hunting) and maybe found two. I thought I didn't know what I was looking for (I kind of knew). But this was so helpful looking "with you". Thank you. It was encouraging I saw some when you paused to ask if we could spot them. Thank you for that short quiz. (And like most people here, I think your enthusiasm is adorable). I started watching some of your rock tumbling vids before this one.

Please do a part 2! You have such a good eye for spotting good rocks

Yes! Part 2 please! Love your enthusiasm and have to say I have only found a few agates in my life, here in Wa state! I would have gone bonkers if I was camping there!!! Love your finds and enjoy! ☺️

New to rock tumbling & collecting but Love your energy and videos, new subscriber here! 🥰🇬🇧

Amazing finds!!! Looks like you had so much fun!

I love how passionate you are about rockhounding! The joy you share is contagious! I’m glad you were able to have so much fun out in nature with your family. ❤️ I’m gonna have to go find me some gravel to dig through. 😉☺️

Crazy insane! 🤪 Love to see them tumbled out.

Yes! Please do a part 2!

very cool! it looks like you have a mix of agates and jasper! perfect for rock-garden!!! VERY COOL!!

Great enthusiasm!

I love that you get great joy finding the itty bitty agates.

Just wanted to thank you for the really great tips on rock cleaning 😊

Oh my gosh lol i KNOW you had a blast on that trip! i would have lost it finding all those jaspers and agates in that gravel lol. This is THE GREATEST hobby ever.

OMG sooo many of them! I'm just as hyped as you just by watching this vid❤ wished we had more cool rocks in the Netherlands (I believe we have the most boring rockland in the whole wide world😂

Wow, that was awesome! I wish we had places like that here in Virginia! Would like to see part 2! Thanks for sharing!

Paint agates also have more pastel like colors, and typically exhibit more oranges, pinks, blues, dark red to brown, and whites. Also wanted to mention that one with the thick white line going through the center looked sunbleached. Sunbleached agates will typically have an area that is all white, and or colors will be muted.

Great video!!!

WOW!!!

Hey Ariel, just discovered the channel. Your vids are so exciting. I recently got a bucket full of rocks and gems and thought about getting into tumbling. Any recommendations for a beginner's tumbler?

Beautiful finds… 😊

That’s crazy! Lucky you!

Urban rockhounding scores again.!keep having fun. Tumble, flatten backs, wire wrap and you have a pocket full of beauty. Rings, pendants and earings. Woohoo

Wow what a great day!

Part 2 please, that was a nice haul.

me and my friends went to this place where they have PILES (20 ft tall) of gravel (big and little) and we are allowed to climb on them and look for agates.

Find out where they get their gravel from!! Maybe you can search the gravel quarry before they classify it by size, Maybe get some big ones

Hey so awesome for all the treasures you found,would love to know where you're at. lol. I have so many agates,I've been putting in glass jars,glass containers with covers and have them out in my flower gardens. You can never have enough agates. Thanks for sharing!

Nice, you have some beautiful stones in your area!

Halfway through and I’m ready to drop everything and drive up to the Duluth area.

Good stones. Cheerful lady. Could be a hand model! Thanks for bringing a good omen to our day.

It would be amazing if you could go to where they are grinding this rock into these little bits. If they would let you look at their rocks before they process them, I can only imagine what you would find. I guess you could try to find out, maybe from the name of the trucking company that dumped the gravel.

That's awesome I hunt for Indian artifacts when I'm not working so I know you're happy

I also was going to ask if you had or have found agates with amethyst? I have personally found a good handful. Also, a lot of those tiny ones will make great fill for the tumbler, plus they polish really nice.

Very cool - I don't get this type of excitement in Nebraska. I don't think our gravel has agates. Do you sell assortments of these tiny ones?

You should find out where they got the load of rocks from and have some delivered to your home!

That's incredible. What a great adventure. What do you do with the small ones? Are they too small to tumble, or do you polish them a different way?

What are you waiting for part 2 please. Always fun when the family gets into the hunt with you. Like to see those tumbled and the jasper there was very nice. Jackpot...

Like Oh My God!

When she says the agate is huge and me who rockhounds in New Zealand for agates is like "whatttttt, that's so tiny!!!"

i live in oregon, they are everywhere!!

It's a veritable agate "gold mine"!

Is that up toward Split Rock Wilds and Beaver Bay? Would love to start actually understanding what I'm biking and hiking on when I'm up north.

That campground is going to get slammed, lol. I hope you got all you wanted before posting! I can imagine non-rock people seeing this lovely young woman playing in the gravel and giving you wide berth! Fun to watch…Thanks.

I’m super duper jealous! That’s not fair lol 😅

I definitely would like to see a part 2. Question: What do you do with the tiny agates?

I just bought my first rock tumbler. It's gonna be here Friday. I am getting a 17lb tumbler cause I wanna tumble bigger rocks. Also I thought I'd experiment and cut some rocks on a tile saw first with unusual geometric shapes with sharp edges then tumble them to see what happens. I live in Arizona and I have lots of jasper and stuff that looks like arrowhead material. And some rocks that are the texture of jasper but solid black. Also lots of different granite and quartz of many different colors. It would be cool if I can tumble softball sized rocks.

I just started tumbling. I wouldn't know the difference between an agate and a mosquito!! Yes, you can laugh at me.

….I’m on my way…Lol 😂 Wow! What a treasure!!

Agate heaven 😊

The white maybe opalized from weathering. Great haul, especially all the extrasfrom the rockhounds in training. 😊

You have an amazing eye. I missed almost all of them 😮

If I were you….. Reach out to the park you were in and find out what company supplied the Crushed rock that was poured around. I’ve known of people that rock companies have allowed onto their grounds to look at their rocks BEFORE they are crushed into the size you found. At the very least it would be worth a shot to maybe get some awesome rocks

That looks like a well kept campground. We've been looking at doing some fishing up there. Which campground is this??

i found my frst agate , walking diwn the blvd at some new carwasg and look in there flower beds and i got a good one , been finding alot of my quartz from lowes flower beds, then not even know it my sister took me to a rock store and thry have some riugh agtes ad like the dummy i am i buy them for alot of money , oh well so i m excited HIPEEE

and ya know... its crazy how, well, crazy we get over agates as common as they are. i mean obviously they aint that common but definitely easier to find than most minerals on that scale of beauty

I just drove to Agate Bay Beach, Brighton Beach, and Duluth Rose garden. I didn’t have any luck.

So we just arrived at a campground where we can’t stop finding Red Jasper. Best stuff we’ve ever found.

I don't know how you were able to leave that place; when I go to the beach at Oiso here my daughter has to force me to put my shoes on and go home, with a big bag of rocks of course! Lots of Jade and what look like Picaso stones here, not much in the agate department though.

we are new to rock tumbling, and also in Minnesota.. what town are you from. we are in Pillager

Where is the gravel pit these came from?

How the heck do you distinguish between those rocks!? Like I can never find the rock before you pick it up. Is it just about seeing it in person, or is it super subtle? Especially the nodules… they look exactly like the other rocks to me!

...... lol, this cracks me up. Fresh gravel they just put down. Agate trip of a life time. Got me... this is not real, is it?

i went to missouri a few months ago and found these weird coral fungus shaped crystal rocks (its on my youtube) what are those? also where is this?

You asked what you can do with thel stones. Maybe put them in a small cache bag and sell them. Or auction them. Or give them as a prize for watching and commenting on a future video. Or put them in a small baby food jar, put on a sunny window sill, and label it "best day ever".

Where is this place at?

hehehe. Im glad I found somebody like me. I so do that. LOL.

Order a truck load of this gravel for yourself and have it dumped in your driveway!

where is this?

I want to know where that gravel came from.

Agates under UV light ! ✨ so part 2 needs to be at night. lol yep rhymed didn't know

What do you do with all these agates? Do you cut the nodules open? Do you tumble anything?

Did you ever tumble some of these finds?

Collecting is allowable at that location?

Isn't it illegal to pick up rocks?

Agates under UV light ! ✨ so part 2 needs to be at night lol

What is the name of the campground?

Give the location PLEASE end save some for me:(

Wowza! .. I'd keep looking all day. Would be fun to see some close ups, maybe with water on em or sitting in water.. that'd be an extra treat ☺

Nice voice

Why does this video only have 761 likes?!?! Let’s get it to 1 mil People who agree with me 👇

texas sucks. every gravel road in my area is just chert