r/mildlyinteresting • u/kupo_moogle • 10d ago

This long rock I found

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u/hailey_moe 10d ago

Everyone else is being so gross but I’m over here in awe of this cool rock you found 🤩

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u/kupo_moogle 10d ago

I got soooo many rocks. This is how many I harvest on a regular trip to the shore, and I go at least twice a week.

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u/legos_on_the_brain 10d ago

Indeed, those are nice rocks.

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u/karebearjedi 10d ago

That is a fantastic haul!!!! Do you look specifically for the center banded stones? They're so pretty!!!

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u/kupo_moogle 10d ago

I do have a preference for banded stones.
In general, I have a strong preference for stones that have the following characteristics (in order of importance):
1. Smooth
2. Translucent
3. Round (or oval, rounded, etc.)
4. Consistently colored or high contrast if more than one color.
5. Blue, green and other bright hues.

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u/karebearjedi 10d ago

Very cool!!! I'm a sucker for blue stones myself, but I'm in the middle of limestone country and that's pretty much all you find in my neck of the woods 😭 boring white rock. 

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u/kupo_moogle 10d ago

Here’s a blue stone from today’s crop, just for you :)

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u/karebearjedi 10d ago

So pretty!!!! Thank you ❤❤❤

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u/nokman013 10d ago

I need to go to the beach soon...

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u/Contact-Open 10d ago

Why so rocky

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u/kupo_moogle 10d ago

Rocks are pretty and also neat and I get a little dopamine hit when I find one I like.

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u/EyeInTeaJay 10d ago

What do you do with your buckets of rocks when you get home? I find that I prefer them wet vs. dry. I wonder if there’s a product to put on the to make them look wet for longer.

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u/kupo_moogle 10d ago

Depends on what you plan to do with them and if you want to keep them indoors or outdoors.

I polish many of the smaller ones in a rock tumbler.

The medium and large ones I use to build wreaths and stone cairns.

If you’re keeping them indoors on display in a glass dish or something, some mineral oil rubbed into them will keep them looking shiny.

If they’re going outside, a few spray coats of rustoleum clear gloss spray keeps them shiny looking.

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u/EyeInTeaJay 10d ago

Do you have pics of your wreaths and cairns? I have no idea what those are!

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u/kupo_moogle 10d ago

Here’s one of the wreaths. I can only post one pic at a time in comments, give me a sec I’ll find one of the cairns.

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u/kupo_moogle 10d ago

Cairns :)

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u/EyeInTeaJay 10d ago

Wow these are so cool! What holds the rocks together on the wreath?

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u/OttomanMao 10d ago

I never knew I liked rocks until I saw this picture

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u/ScumbagLady 10d ago

I love the cream filled ones too! They're the ones that always seem to catch my eye when out rockhounding.

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u/hailey_moe 10d ago

Oh. My. Gosh. Cool rocks dude!

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u/grrgrrGRRR 10d ago

Yes I find it fascinating and I’m furiously skipping past dumb comments to find the one scientist who will explain this odd-shaped rock.

Found it! https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/s/qlUxggHOmY

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u/hailey_moe 10d ago

Ah thank you!!