Amazing Fundy Rocks

I was conducting research for the DVD I'm working on about how to find Lake Superior agates when I came across this amazing web page about rockhounding in Nova Scotia.   The web page is: http://fundyrocks.blogspot.com/2013/01/new-blomidon-rockhounding.html and was put together by Christopher Sheppard.

Nova Scotia is the eastern most Canadian Territory.  Located almost exactly halfway between the Equator and the North Pole (44º 39' N Longitude), its provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the second-smallest province in Canada, with an area of 55,284 square kilometres (21,300 sq mi), including Cape Breton and some 3,800 coastal islands. As of 2011, the population was 921,727 making Nova Scotia the second-most-densely populated province in Canada.  In the following map, Nova Scotia is the purple province.

The photos below show that there are a lot of rock....

The web page explains how rock hunting  at Cape Split can be challenging and dangerous.

But the jasperized amethyst nodules are some of the most beautiful rocks that I've ever seen.  Notice the before and after polishing....

 

The specimens are nodules that formed in the basaltic vesicle pockets.  Notice the before and after cut...

 

 

 

 

 

It is a rugged landscape...

Grandchild update.  Keenen is growing!