Lake Superior Agates, Duluth, Minnesota

As we left Dave and Jane's we  mentally flipped a coin and headed northwest to Duluth, Minnesota. There we thought we would take a trip along the north shore of Lake Superior and hunt the fabled Lake Superior Agate. The drive was easy and the traffic light as we traveled along US 2.
Mile after mile of trees and we even caught a glimpse of Lake Superior as we passed through Ashland. Renita got out the Woodalls and she found a nice place near Duluth,(She not only is our navigator but also our accommodations director and of course our jewelry color coordinator, etc...).

The next day we headed north along scenic highway 61 and passed rocky beaches, where streams emptied into the lake and promised that their bed load contained agate, if only we would stop. Our plan was to drive to the Split Rock Lighthouse and then slowly wind our way back looking for agate.
Now we have been along the north shore before, but never seriously agate hunting and so we enjoyed the scenery as we hunted unsuccessfully for the mythical agate. We tried to go to Gooseberry Falls but there were so many people there we couldn't find a parking spot.
Passing through the town of Two Harbors, Renita spotted a rock shop advertising Lake Superior Agates and we found a parking spot,(It was Memorial Day)/ The shop had beautiful pieces and lots of interesting stone with reasonable prices but not reasonable for us to buy and then resell. Too rich for our tastes, we didn't buy any but at least we got to look at some beautiful agate and learn the color of the stone.

Further south we stopped along a small beach and Renita even found a real Lake Superior Agate, amazing! We picked up some wannabes but left most as they were simply leaverites, (after I cracked a few open with our new crack hammer and discovered they were not agatized).
Returning to our fiver I took Molly for a walk and found two Lake Superior Agates in the gravel of the rv resort road. It was a nice day and we enjoyed our hunt but if you want Lake Superior Agate you are better off to look anywhere else then look in the heavily picked shoreline of Lake Superior. Clear skies,