ROCKHUNTER NORTHWEST

Banded Jasper or...? The beach below my house is primarily sand, esp. during the quiet months of summer, when the surf is at a minimum. ...

Variolites, Olympic Peninsula, WA I was back on the Elwha River again yesterday, documenting the amazing restoration project underway ...

Peacock Rock, Puget Sound The water along the shores of Puget Sound was almost dead calm today, and the sun was shining: both relatively...

Mysterious Rock, Puget Sound I have not posted for quite sometime, not having had much time - or weather - for rockhounding. But every...

Jasper, First Creek There is a well-known location for agate and geodes in First Creek canyon, on the Blewitt Pass highway north of Elle...

Skokomish River Gravel Bars I set out this morning on the trail of poppy/orbicular jasper on the South fork of the Skokomish River.  It ...

I was photographing birds along the shore this morning (see below) but out of the corner of my eye noticed a shiny, rounded pebble with ...

Biotite on Granite This is one of my favorite rocks, found - as always - along the shore of Puget Sound. But the reason I love it is not...

Opercula I'm home from Sulawesi, but without any rocks. Most of my time there I was on the coast where everything is limestone and c...

Ape Cave Lava Tube, Mt. St. Helens No, I'm not really rockhounding here - I'm exploring this remarkable two-mile-long lava tub...

Beach Cobbles, Lincoln Park, Seattle One of the best rockhounding locations in the Pacific Northwest is so close...that I can see it from...