This Popular Michigan Fossil Hunting Location is FULL of Incredible Fossils!

Back to one of my favorite fossil hunting locations, and the best thing is ANYONE can come hunt for fossils here at Rockport Quarry in Alpena, Michigan!
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  • @megankimber8772
    @megankimber8772 Жыл бұрын

    Hey, this is Megan…..This was so exciting! I’m glad you have some friends along with you to be able to share the fossil gleeee! You have been finding such rich, plentiful fossil 🎉places lately. I’m happy for you! And it helps me build up my Michigan bucket list…oooo yeah all about travel and fossils and pretty colored stones along the shore, me want LOT OF IT. DREAMING!! Planning to meet up with some people with similar interests and go from there. Toot toot!

  • @mariemoss2475
    @mariemoss2475 Жыл бұрын

    Some of those corals look like little Wizards hats , what a beautiful place... another great video 💕💕💕💕

  • @cynthiaswearingen1037
    @cynthiaswearingen1037 Жыл бұрын

    My goodness, so many fossils, so many different ones! Sweet finds, Kyle!!! I hope your mom is doing well!❤

  • @marybeth6272
    @marybeth6272 Жыл бұрын

    Awesome!!! I love Petoskey rocks and fossilized corals. Excellent song too! Thanks for sharing it with us 😊Love Michigan ❤️ 😍 ❤

  • @wenditaylor9708
    @wenditaylor9708 Жыл бұрын

    This was fun!! So close to home! Some of those horn corals are perfect poop emojis! 💩 Never stop being you! You are beautiful and you bring joy and adventure to people that can't do these things anymore! 😊

  • @catherinewilliams3850
    @catherinewilliams3850 Жыл бұрын

    Just amazed at the quantity and quality of fossils, wish we had places like that here in Wales UK.Your videos are fun and educational, you have some great friends. You have a lovely voice, I like your music and Happy Birthday for tomorrow.

  • @abbywilson5988

    @abbywilson5988

    Жыл бұрын

    The UK has some of the most amazing fossils! Dorset is next door.

  • @JaneEllenMusic
    @JaneEllenMusic Жыл бұрын

    Unfreakin'believable!!! I would never be able to drag myself away. Congrats on finding so many awesome fossils! 💙💙

  • @icatz
    @icatz Жыл бұрын

    There's an area in my state where at 7,000 feet you can be walking on nothing but agatized horn coral. The inland sea stretched down to northern AZ, 400-350 mya. It's a great feeling, isn't it, walking thru prehistoric times? TFS ❤️🎸🏏

  • @shannonreynolds4423
    @shannonreynolds4423 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks Kyle for being so full of light and love! I’ve learned quite a bit from you. You also have a wonderful singing voice I just learned. ❤

  • @melissalease5476
    @melissalease5476 Жыл бұрын

    And anyone not familiar with fossils could walk through there and not realize they’re walking over the fossils thinking nothing of it.

  • @billrobbins5874

    @billrobbins5874

    6 ай бұрын

    Beautiful area and fossils. 👍

  • @bacongod4967

    @bacongod4967

    5 ай бұрын

    Crazy but true

  • @bacongod4967

    @bacongod4967

    5 ай бұрын

    When i first started out, I couldn’t find anything, but now it’s impossible for me not to find anything

  • @melissajohnson1563
    @melissajohnson1563 Жыл бұрын

    Happy Birthday Kyle! You share a birthday with my hero and the best man I have ever known, my dad. He would’ve been 80 today. Loved your song ‘This town is gonna swallow you whole’ makes me think of Gainesville haha!

  • @fionanorth1811
    @fionanorth1811 Жыл бұрын

    Dear Kyle, a longtime ago, when I’d been a subscriber and enjoyed your videos for quite a while, I commented that while I enjoyed your presentations, sometimes you acted too much like a yahoo. That comment may have hurt at the time, and it certainly gathered some spirited defence from other followers. At the time I felt that sometimes your boyish enthusiasm overwhelmed your great content and knowledge, and unless we occasionally receive criticism, we might miss an opportunity to self evaluate. Any way, my comment today is that your videos, and the spirit that shows through them, is so lovely. No reasons to criticise now, I could probably even cope with an occasional reappearance of duckman, as I’m sure you know that your strength is not just in being a funny man. I’m also enjoying your music. Nice work.

  • @WILDKYLE

    @WILDKYLE

    Жыл бұрын

    Hi Fiona! This comment really means the world to me. Thank you. I appreciate your willingness to be honest. I'm glad to hear you've been enjoying the videos and my music! ❤️

  • @Catrina3732
    @Catrina3732 Жыл бұрын

    This is so cool!!! Im from and live in west Michigan, and have basically spent my childhood collecting rocks. I lived right by a gravel pit, and I was content to do it all day long. Funny thing is, my father in law owned several gravel pits in the area. Small world sometimes. It’s fun to see what you can find in Michigan. Also, cool thing here, all you have to do is search your landscape rocks. Keep coming to Michigan! Love watching and learning from your videos!

  • @largent45
    @largent45 Жыл бұрын

    You l had the most amazing time! Your finds were incredible! I hope you got a chance to collect a piece of that stromatolite. They are the coolest fossils! And the fossils you guys found at the beach were amazing too! What an amazing time! Thanks for sharing Kyle!

  • @CretaceousCora
    @CretaceousCora11 ай бұрын

    This is so cool! Looks like so much fun. Adding to my bucket list!

  • @kellyharper367
    @kellyharper36711 ай бұрын

    Old disabled house bound dusty rusty rockhound here: I wish I was able to get out to that place...it looks like fossil heaven!

  • @lisa-fg8zh
    @lisa-fg8zh Жыл бұрын

    Thank you, now I know what I found as a kid many decades ago near traverse city shoreline! My daughter still has in her china cabinet. So cool.😊

  • @paulbettenga6202
    @paulbettenga6202 Жыл бұрын

    Great video Kyle! I love that there are so many really cool fossils in my state! I am also impressed with your musical talent. Reminds me of some of Chris Ledoux's slower ballads. Good stuff man! Keep it up!

  • @deniseveiw7992
    @deniseveiw79925 ай бұрын

    Absolute beauty. Cool fossils. Michigan is a beautiful state. I've lived here ally life.

  • @joedadbod8450
    @joedadbod845011 ай бұрын

    Great video, my friend! I have been finding very similar material in southwest Ohio recently before I just came back to Arkansas. It's so neat to hold history in your hands.

  • @laurenconradie5328
    @laurenconradie5328 Жыл бұрын

    Another wonderful video, Kyle. ❤Your videos are so soothing to watch after a long busy day. Happy happy birthday for tomorrow, I hope that it is a truly wonderful day for you. Michigan is on the bucket list so hopefully 1 day I can find meself some ancient treasures for my collection. 🤞

  • @WILDKYLE

    @WILDKYLE

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much Lauren! I'm glad they can be enjoyable for you after a long day! Thanks for the birthday wishes!

  • @patriciabock4299
    @patriciabock42999 ай бұрын

    Love the choice of your music! Great video!

  • @patscnr
    @patscnr11 ай бұрын

    That is an awesome looking area. I love rocky areas like that. Really cool fossils.

  • @taleandclawrock2606
    @taleandclawrock260611 ай бұрын

    Beautiful voice and tune, what a crooner! 😍🤩

  • @Ddelfossils
    @DdelfossilsАй бұрын

    Was out there earlier this month, found some fragments of boreolepis with my friend. Very cool site.

  • @gloriamcdermott3174
    @gloriamcdermott31743 ай бұрын

    Love the music at the end

  • @fossilswede
    @fossilswede2 ай бұрын

    Interesting and fun video as always! 👍👍

  • @melindahawk8540
    @melindahawk8540 Жыл бұрын

    Another adventure through watching you! Hope your moms doing well.

  • @marierowe5969
    @marierowe5969 Жыл бұрын

    Love the fossils love u and your music ..keep going ...xxxx ...your vids are great .can't do fossil hunting like u do here in the uk

  • @heidikoester
    @heidikoester Жыл бұрын

    Oh wow, what a dreamy location! 😍 I live in Milwaukee, Wisconsin near Lake Michigan, but I don’t find as many spectacular Fossels like you are finding 🙂

  • @markattardo
    @markattardo Жыл бұрын

    Awesome hunt. Fun video👍👍

  • @audraacklin9826
    @audraacklin9826 Жыл бұрын

    Awesome tunes, man!! The fossils aren't bad either! ❤️❤️😃

  • @robertl6196
    @robertl6196 Жыл бұрын

    I haven't been here in 30 years. Glad to see it hasn't changed much if any.

  • @jackieforestieri3010
    @jackieforestieri3010 Жыл бұрын

    Great voice, great song Kyle!

  • @Jwaxx
    @Jwaxx Жыл бұрын

    Happy Birthday Kyle! Happy hunting! ❤❤❤❤

  • @dustinfindsrocks
    @dustinfindsrocks Жыл бұрын

    I'm in love with that whatchamacallit tentacular? Super cool find! I've got to find a good fossil spot like that somewhere I know they're around Missouri. I've heard about lots of good road cuts around Springfield MO... Hopefully I'll find out soon! Safe travels Kyle! Love the song! You should put them in more videos!

  • @WILDKYLE

    @WILDKYLE

    Жыл бұрын

    Tentaculite! They are so cool! Glad you enjoyed the song man. I definitely want to put them in more vids!

  • @laurieowen8696
    @laurieowen8696 Жыл бұрын

    Sweet! Nice ending.

  • @obieobrien5883
    @obieobrien5883 Жыл бұрын

    I hope you send Rob from Michigan rocks, some of the raw hexagonaria

  • @howardwest1347
    @howardwest1347 Жыл бұрын

    Love the song!!

  • @naomimakin1908
    @naomimakin1908 Жыл бұрын

    Foldy rock😂 not heard it called that before, love it 🎉

  • @keithcunningham7925
    @keithcunningham7925 Жыл бұрын

    Wow that is a great place I need to get out there more

  • @janvafa9959
    @janvafa9959 Жыл бұрын

    I have to say you have a fantastic voice!

  • @heathervannatter364
    @heathervannatter364 Жыл бұрын

    Horn coral looks like the sorting hat from HP. 😊

  • @peterszar
    @peterszar11 ай бұрын

    We have a similar site just SW of the center of Buffalo, NY, located in Blasdell, NY, called the "Penn Dixie" site. Quite a few people go there fossil hunting, especially school field trips. It's in close proximity to the Lake Erie shoreline, I'd say 1 1/2 mile maybe, so there are plenty of marine fossils, i.e. Trilobite's, Brachiopods, Bryozoans ect. It's a cool place for fossil hunting

  • @kennypowers3984
    @kennypowers3984 Жыл бұрын

    Kyle and the gang never disappoint. Love the videos. Also, you can sing your arse off!!! Did you win that competition?

  • @WILDKYLE

    @WILDKYLE

    Жыл бұрын

    I checked that the other day and apparently it is going until sometime in July! I'll make another post soon so folks remember to go vote more!

  • @kennypowers3984

    @kennypowers3984

    Жыл бұрын

    @@WILDKYLE Best of luck!! ⭐

  • @RayEllaHoover
    @RayEllaHoover11 ай бұрын

    Cool fossils !!

  • @margieblackburn8445
    @margieblackburn8445 Жыл бұрын

    I always wonder what the world looked like in that time the fossils sure tell a story i love to know

  • @Dino24563
    @Dino24563 Жыл бұрын

    It's such a great location

  • @WILDKYLE

    @WILDKYLE

    Жыл бұрын

    Can't get enough of it!

  • @Kk-md5xr
    @Kk-md5xr Жыл бұрын

    Hey Kyle nice to see you back in MI. Did you attend Kyle Fair in Kyle TX last month? Your music would have been a perfect addition for all the Kyle's.

  • @chrisbgifford7387
    @chrisbgifford7387 Жыл бұрын

    So all of this was under a glacier or the great lakes were more of a sea? They are some really amazing fossils you have found. I wish you could spell some of these fossils and the sea name. It makes it easier to armchair research. Happy birthday, I turned 60 this year, a new decade. future is exciting!

  • @lisacates4185
    @lisacates418511 ай бұрын

    Your voice is awesome ❤🎉

  • @overland.viking
    @overland.viking Жыл бұрын

    Awesome video. Your explorations are always so interesting.

  • @joannhempen8210
    @joannhempen82109 ай бұрын

    Did u move from Florida? Did I miss something. Lol ❤ Thanks for all the amazing videos!!

  • @codypontzius1184
    @codypontzius118411 ай бұрын

    Can't wait for you and paleo cris to come to Indiana

  • @richconroy5559
    @richconroy5559 Жыл бұрын

    To those of you playing the Wild Kyle Brachiopod Drinking Game(TM), you have my condolences for that bit right up front. It's going to be a tipsy video, everybody.

  • @astrialindah2773
    @astrialindah27733 ай бұрын

    I really loved your video but wondered if you could be conscious of slowing down your camera...😜 I've been to that quarry many times and it is so much fun!

  • @graemero5532
    @graemero5532 Жыл бұрын

    Great video.

  • @geoWhite
    @geoWhite Жыл бұрын

    I enjoy your videos but I must say you have an amazing voice. take care

  • @BingShing
    @BingShing3 ай бұрын

    Did she say “sprinkle sprinkle” LOVE IT!!! #Shera

  • @SandyFielding-cl4dc
    @SandyFielding-cl4dc11 ай бұрын

    Hey Dude. We love Ur channel and my husband an I love Rock an fossil hunting and we've found crystal rocks and NO1 nos there there and we've picked up a lot of druzy crystal rocks. We think of y'all when we're out and would love 2 share the crystals. Haven't a way 2 get n touch with U but the crystals r all n the ditch and n the dirt rd. We spend hrs out there and the crystals shine like diamonds . Between Ga an Fla. Nutting spectacular but we have a ball everytime we go. Red clay sticky dirt rd. We've got awesome funds. Love U guys. Praying 4 y'all's safety and God bless. 🙂

  • @eyupchuck1235
    @eyupchuck1235 Жыл бұрын

    Why when I see the horn coral fossils do I always think of Patrick Star 😂 from SpongeBob (if you know, you know!) 😂😂

  • @brandonmyers4078
    @brandonmyers4078 Жыл бұрын

    Mr Kyle as always I’m looking forward to watching and hope your doing well and also I hope your mom is!! Sending blessings from the UK 🇬🇧

  • @WILDKYLE

    @WILDKYLE

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much my friend!

  • @cosmicbackwoods
    @cosmicbackwoods Жыл бұрын

    you got a nice singing voice my dude

  • @nothingsnew184
    @nothingsnew1846 ай бұрын

    Müziksiz olması çok güzel olmuş bu video.Yürürken çıkan çakıl taşlarının sesi,çekiş sesi,hışırtı sesi gerçekten bir terapi.

  • @This_Time_Next_Year_Rodney
    @This_Time_Next_Year_Rodney Жыл бұрын

    What do you do with all the horn coral you collect?

  • @barrypoontang
    @barrypoontang Жыл бұрын

    was that a sponge or something at 4:30 just to the left under the one you pick up?

  • @mirkatu3249
    @mirkatu3249 Жыл бұрын

    Fun! :-)

  • @karlaconroy2099
    @karlaconroy20996 ай бұрын

    Reminds me so much of a couple quarry areas in Ohio and couple other spots near a river...I have been lucky over the last few decades .The weird stuff in the water in your video reminds me of something I saw near Lake Erie last year. It was yuck.

  • @philmuller8069
    @philmuller80693 ай бұрын

    Do those hexagonaria coral , fluores with black light? I see the rock hunters around Lake Superior using black lights - and they find coral a lot.

  • @athelwulfgalland
    @athelwulfgalland Жыл бұрын

    As cool as this site is I still think I prefer the sheer variety of fossils you recover in Florida! :) Still it was a great hunt, thanks for sharing.

  • @calysta8439
    @calysta8439 Жыл бұрын

    Pretty sure that orange spongy growth in the water was Xanthoria Lichen.

  • @robertalderman1297
    @robertalderman1297 Жыл бұрын

    Living it through you brother!

  • @esztervizi7202
    @esztervizi720211 ай бұрын

    Greetings from Somerset UK. I was wondering if you had seen any Mud Fossil Uni videos. If so what are your thoughts, I would be very interested to know? Love your films and cheerfulness..

  • @jordanvanwinkle8950
    @jordanvanwinkle8950 Жыл бұрын

    Kyle please take me and my husband with you the next time you go to this place,. Just kidding, not kidding, but seriously we love to find these types of fossils here in Adams County, Mississippi it's very rare to find the Petoskey coral but we do infact find them and also the Rugose corals, the crinoids and some times we find the horse teeth too. On a serious note we would love to go with you one day on one of your adventures to find the fossils that you show on your videos. Thank you for sharing them with us.

  • @nanak2025
    @nanak202511 ай бұрын

    We are heading thru that part of Michigan later this fall, do you need to get special permission to go in that area Kyle?

  • @patty4091
    @patty40918 ай бұрын

    You all needed an ATV, if for no other reason to carry your lovely finds back! 😂

  • @SaltwaterSean
    @SaltwaterSean11 ай бұрын

    I love all your videos Kyle. Would love to join forces some day. I think you'd love it here in Nova Scotia. Welcome anytime.

  • @paleo1019
    @paleo1019 Жыл бұрын

    Randy Blood is he's name right!? Awesome Geologist!

  • @valsummers5330
    @valsummers533011 ай бұрын

    Sweet! Rock hunting and Love the shameless self promotion! Beautiful song

  • @beckiburke781
    @beckiburke781 Жыл бұрын

    Congratulations on your Album. Don’t ever hang up your hat 🙃

  • @bw-ey4gp
    @bw-ey4gp7 ай бұрын

    Are you from Alpena? This is crazy, my gramps worked that quarry in the 1950s, 60s, 70s.

  • @WILDKYLE

    @WILDKYLE

    7 ай бұрын

    I'm not from Alpena, but I was born in Saginaw, MI!

  • @bw-ey4gp

    @bw-ey4gp

    7 ай бұрын

    So cool! My dads old stomping grounds. I'm in Clearwater and watch you, Rob, and Justin all the time. We don't have a ton of creeks but Alligator Creek was rerouted 100+ ago and am going today....holy god you just found a ground hutch in the vid I'm watching!!!

  • @bw-ey4gp

    @bw-ey4gp

    7 ай бұрын

    Your video when you found those straight side Gainesville Cokes is probably the peak of how exited you sound. Can you remember that feeling? So cool!

  • @Hellfire420-wh2tf
    @Hellfire420-wh2tf10 күн бұрын

    i live in michigan in the thumd

  • @elizabethlewis3509
    @elizabethlewis3509 Жыл бұрын

    Can you polish those petoskey stones not weathered by the water?

  • @WILDKYLE

    @WILDKYLE

    Жыл бұрын

    I think Rob said he polished one like that and he said it turned out pretty cool!

  • @SandyFielding-cl4dc
    @SandyFielding-cl4dc11 ай бұрын

    Wed love 2 send U a video of 1 of my best finds

  • @andrewwong3825
    @andrewwong3825 Жыл бұрын

    👍

  • @conniecraddock8481
    @conniecraddock848111 ай бұрын

    So how do you clean off the outer matrix

  • @SweetPeaSaid
    @SweetPeaSaid11 ай бұрын

    Do you hunt in Northwest Florida?

  • @mclane606
    @mclane606 Жыл бұрын

    Does the Southside of Alpena still smell like burnt tires and woodchips? I lived there on commercial street for 10 years 😊

  • @kevinhullinger8743
    @kevinhullinger8743Ай бұрын

    Rocks cannot be dated

  • @djpitr
    @djpitrАй бұрын

    Pretty cool ,I will be in the area in couple months , any way you can pin point me how do I find this place

  • @brianwalker9185
    @brianwalker9185 Жыл бұрын

    Golden piped rockhound....

  • @WILDKYLE

    @WILDKYLE

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you Brian!

  • @leslyeschoenhuth1107
    @leslyeschoenhuth1107 Жыл бұрын

    * So few crinoid stems.. ~ Hexagonaria fill with agate or chalcedony & that is what polishes.. not the coral framework..

  • @thing1178
    @thing117811 ай бұрын

    Where is this?!? I couldn’t quiet hear

  • @fizur2002
    @fizur20026 ай бұрын

    I can only imagine how nightmarish that horn coral would be to boaters/swimmers if it existed today.

  • @claudebernardin1096
    @claudebernardin1096 Жыл бұрын

    How does a viewer who lives about 4 and 1/2 hours from there find out this location to go there? Would somebody please e mail me some specifics? Pretty please with cherries on top.

  • @WILDKYLE

    @WILDKYLE

    Жыл бұрын

    Hey! Type Rockport Quarry into your maps and it'll come up :)

  • @kiyarnmyers2429
    @kiyarnmyers2429 Жыл бұрын

    um...goop

  • @charlesrowe9183
    @charlesrowe91837 ай бұрын

    I invited Bryan Major the crystal collector, to join me on finding crinoid fossils and horn corals, I've found maybe 10 thousand perfect crinoid fossils and horn corals at my favorite place, this place is huge, and I haven't even scratch the place, there's maybe a million of them, and you are welcome to join me Mr Wild Kyle

  • @SonOfVulkan
    @SonOfVulkan Жыл бұрын

    Shame we cant tell what colours those corals used to be. Also why no shark teeth?

  • @WILDKYLE

    @WILDKYLE

    Жыл бұрын

    That's really crazy to imagine!

  • @SonOfVulkan

    @SonOfVulkan

    Жыл бұрын

    It would be awesome to see all those little polyps swaying away

  • @30somethingnothing
    @30somethingnothing Жыл бұрын

    Bet it's nice not having to worry about gators....

  • @karlaconroy2099

    @karlaconroy2099

    6 ай бұрын

    I always think I am lucky in Ohio to not worry about scary animals...during day anyways..maybe Coyote at night .But nothing where I am to worry about .Maybe humans ...lol

  • @Angrath
    @Angrath11 ай бұрын

    It's a shame you didn't find any brachiopods or horn corals.