ROCKHUNTER NORTHWEST

Beach Cobbles, San Simeon, CA As I posted back in March, I spent a pretty mind-blowing day collecting on the beaches near San Simeon, Ca...

Misc. Jasper & Agate, Area 54 Some rockhounding locations are in the guidebooks. Others are not, either by the author's choice,...

I am slowly working through the rocks I collected in southern California last month, including some interesting jaspers from the Centra...

Brecciated Jasper I'm still poring over the 100 lbs of stones I brought back from California last week (the back of my car riding ve...

San Simeon Jaspers - Naturally tumbled I do a lot of beach-walking around the Northwest where I live, and often find intriguing and wort...

Cayucos Jasper - Revealed Tumbling stones, esp. hard jaspers and agate, takes patience.... and I am not a patient man. So when a batch...

Cayucos Jasper, California In a post a few weeks ago, I reported that I spent a wonderful few hours exploring the beaches near Cayuc...

Cayucos Jasper, CA Here are two early pieces of the Cayucos Jasper from the Central California coast I found earlier this month (see bel...

Cayucos Jasper, California I drove to California last week for work, but along the way poked around some new rockhounding areas, specifi...

Brecciated Cherts, Channel Islands, CA I collected these stones along the shore of Santa Cruz Island in California's Channel Islands ...