Otto
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Here is what went into my bag today. Gotta love those sunny days on the beach.
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winterchrome
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I'm a bit of an agate hound myself.
Found a couple nice ones today down here in oly, my favorite beach for hounding is the east side of camano island. What about yours?
I wish I had a camera because one that I found today was about as nice a rock as i've found.
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Otto
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Hey Joshua,
I do all of my beach combing up here in Whatcom county or out on the San Juans.
I have some private access to a really good producer of agates.
The camara really does not do them justice. The biggest one is 3 " and blond, but hard to see in the photo. I put a quarter in the middle to kinda be able to guage them better. The dark one on the bottom left is a pretty cool one. It is two phased color, but mostly all rootbeer in color.
You ever find any blues?
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Muttly27
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Hey otto, great finds !!
I've been agate hunting for about thirty years now
Mostly in whatcom co and Ak
cherry point has some good rocks...where do you like to go
What a cool web site always somthing new to check out
peace
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Otto
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I usually try BirchHead or Semiahmoo sometimes Pt. Roberts and when the salmon fishing is slow I'll drop onto a beach on one of the SanJuans.
I have tried Cherry Pt. with very limited success. Maybe sometime we'll run into each other. Yesterday someone must have hunted in front of me. Perfect conditions but the rocks were just not there.
I got a batch of agates coming out of the tumbler in a few days. I'll post a few photos..
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I don't know diddly about agates. Are beaches the only place to find them? I sure have a lot of rocks in my yard that look just like those. Wish I had grass instead. 
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Otto
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Depends on where those rocks came from. My in-laws have a bunch of round rock in their driveway and we will be just standing around and there pop one out. Was also down in Louisianna for work and I was in heaven in the gravel parking lot, they was everywhere!
Lot of agates up in the hills also.
Beach agates are a little different. I am now geologist so do not really know a whole lot about them except they are fun to hunt for. I also heard some of the natives used to use them for arrow tips and such.
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AuntyM
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I imagine that since I live on an Island in the sound with next to no topsoil, just rocks and sand, it's probably agates I keep picking up. I just think of them as cool rocks I decorate my planters with. Maybe I should get a tumbler. Hmmm....
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Another agate hunter checking in. I mostly look for agate in old lava flows, not on the beach. If ya want to do some hiking and even a little rock climbing Riffe is full of Agate, Quartz, and Fossils. That bucket gets really heavy on the trek back. Find some really nice banded Agate,some Amethyest,and some killer leave fossils with superb detail along with pine needles and petrified wood laced with blue agate.
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I'll have to make a trip down to Riffe, finding some of those fossils would be cool.
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I find a few every year on the Fraser river.
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Ragnor
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Agates (as most gems) are formed when water or snow/ice becomes trapped in cooling Basaltic Magma(lava). This commonly occured along the Lower west fringes of the Washington cascades. From chehalis to toutle in almost a strait line Basalt is shallow.
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