Check the post above this for an alert from the FBI on a computer virus.
Now to rocks and fishing.
I have never, or LOL, that I remember, gone salt water fishing.
We have Grunion runs on the beaches in Southern California, but most people just go to go, few bother with the small fish.
I am not a person that likes fish, LOL, except for beer batter french fried, that I do like, a white fish, Halibut most times.
Rocks are where you find them, as is gold.
You could find gold coins on the beaches. Old ones.
Remember the wild horses at Signal? The ore from the big mines there was taken to the Colorado River and shipped to Swansea in England [Scotland?], on the return trips, they came back with the white quartz that had been used in the mills as ballast...........Lovely round white rocks, about the side of a baseball.
I would be surprised at chalk being used as ballast, as it isn’t that heavy. [From memory]
Your rough and ugly lava rock, is perfect for getting cactus stickers out of your fingers, a common rough rock works like a miracle........
Your rocks can tell you where they came from.
Tests of course, would tell which mine they came from.
Cheaper to take one to the museum near where you found them and ask, they will know.
Is there a college nearby? The geology dept might be able to tell you.........unless you get a fool like I had for the classes that I took at the Yuma College, he could not tell a pice of pea gravel from an 8 sided garnet crystal.........one of his helpers, put the garnet number on a piece of gravel, and the instructor spent the whole class cussing the fancy specific gravity machine, because it would not give him the correct weight for garnet and he did not know the difference, while holding it in his hand.
About then I decided that his class was not worth a hundred mile trip to watch him goof around.
But we did make life long friends from others taking the class.
Keep your eyes open, LOL, take your husband fishing often and your rock collection will grow.
Next find a rock collecting map and then find a fishing spot near it, and you are all set.
My experiences with fishing, were mostly me rock hunting and the men doing the fishing........
LOL, I remember once in Idaho, on a small stream, Bill and his nephew “Fred the world’s greatest trout fisherman”, I know because he told me so.
They went across the road and down stream, to get away from me and 3 year old...........
They didn’t get a nibble, but Angela thought she could hide her bologna sandwich in the water, so she quietly ‘dropped’ it.
And a million fish came to dinner.
OK, I will now give you a warning.
I think you are too far north, or hope so, but some of the research that I did, several years ago, said that Cuba sent germs in jars and bottles, expecting people to find, open and spread them.
West Nile Virus was one of them.
Far out, yes and no, Cuba has labs and develops germ warfare and is partners with Iran and Russia, plus every other country that we consider to be enemies.
So do keep it in mind and pass up the bottles and jars.
Yes their are currents that will bring bottles to the U.S.
In Oregon, they search the beaches for the stuff that washes up from Japan.
Wind currents, have brought balloons from Japan to California.
Lots of wild and wonderful things to learn.
**Rocks are where you find them, as is gold.**
We’d be more likely to find gold doubloons than rocks! Plenty of pirate activity around here. They found Blackbeard’s ship a few years ago in Beaufort Inlet and they’re recovering it. No gold, but lots of history.
I don’t know that the ballast stones were chalk, but they are a relatively lightweight stone. I have some, and they...flake—maybe where they’ve been underwater so long? The rocks I was telling you about yest. don’t look like much as ballast—I would have thought they would have chosen more uniform sizes/shapes so they wouldn’t shift during shipping, but who knows? I can’t thnik of any other reason for those rocks to be where they were.
**unless you get a fool like I had for the classes**
Don’t you hate that? I got in alot of trouble in school for knowing more about some things than my teachers. I learned early on to keep my mouth shut. :) I doubt if the college here has a geology dept. Might check with the Mariner’s Museum. Not important to anyone but me, anyway.
**Cuba sent germs in jars and bottles**
We don’t find many floating bottles, even though the Gulf Stream runs right off the coast. #2 son found a coconut a few years ago. That was pretty cool. We collect bottles, but mostly throw aways from earlier centuries. Most travel was by water and the older folks—finish with a bottle, toss it over the side. A LOT of whiskey bottles, some with the corks still in them. The salt water does strange things to glass, and sometimes it gets a mother of pearl shine to it. Have a lot of old medicine/perfume bottles.
I can jsut see the baby “hiding” her sandwich! LOL I’m sure you had way more fun with her than your hubby did with his nephew!