**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!
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.<<<
LOL, here we dig in old outhouses.... and dumps.
I have found them under bushes, while traveling down a dirt road.
So there you go, you are now a treasure hunter.
There are some fun “lost treasures” to think about and I always found them a good excuse for a camping trip.
You only loose when you expect to find the lost treasure.
There was a DOS set of disks on the lost treasures of the east coast and I thought I saw it as freeware on some list a couple years ago, try a google for; treasure hunting freeware.
You were smarter than I, as I never learned to keep my mouth shut and should do so.
The worst of all the classes that I like, was learning that so many of them are the instructors opinion and not facts.
I want black and white facts.
It really hit me, when I listened to Bill talk about prospecting and he was all ‘wrong’, we talked and I researched and found it was just who taught you and none knew the truth about many things, such as Geology, Archeology etc.
I loved writing about gold prospecting in this area, as it goes against all the rules we have always learned.
Here there is no reason to dig deeper than 18 inches and red clay is the best spot to dig.
It is all an old lake bed and it is unknown where much of the gold came from, as it is like oak leaves and not the round balls that traveled down stream.
I will be curious as to the rocks you found, do take them to the musuem and find out.
You must take your husband fishing more often.
I knew that I should not have run the google, I don’t , at a quick glance, see the one I talked about: