These photos are from mid March not long after the first real warm up of the year. The location is on Lake Michigan in Port Washington WI where there is a nice long beach with easy access. This one of the places that I visit to look for interesting rocks and fossils and there are plenty. Its a nice beach with quartz type sand and some spots with swaths of black sand layers possibly magnetite sand? The bluff is constantly eroding and collapsing bringing down with it lots of new glacial til rocks, trees, shrubs and the occasional set of wooden steps that go up to some of the private residences. The water is extremely clear and at times it looks like the Caribbean with amazing blue and turquoise colors. Its not uncommon to see several other people collecting and metal detecting. So anyway here are some of photos of what you see here. Thx.
The first couple of images shows the large Dolostone boulders that they brought in as rip rap that is in front of a water treatment facility's path (the easier of two ways to get to the beach).
rock in the sand with yellow/orange oxide draining
Typical selection of beach rocks
If you zoom in you can see sand details
fossiliferous limestone
Shallow water view
Looking up at the bluff from the beach, you can see the water draining at the base, large clumps of mud/clay break off and eventually it get's sucked into the lake by waves.
Red rock with quartz (football size)
banded quartz sandstone
Another bluff shot, you can see the the rocks funneling down the channel that will end up on the beach to get cleaned by the lakes waves.
Interesting boulder, either a granitoid or syenite has a section of fine grain on it to go with the coarser main body.
This is where I turned around, all the snow and ice is now long gone.
![turned around here.jpg turned around here.jpg](https://www.treasurenet.com/data/attachments/1543/1543813-68d09e4eeb4f0d666d614070e1127c95.jpg)
The first couple of images shows the large Dolostone boulders that they brought in as rip rap that is in front of a water treatment facility's path (the easier of two ways to get to the beach).
![retaining wall.jpg retaining wall.jpg](https://www.treasurenet.com/data/attachments/1543/1543538-306291a7a4f1075577169d008cc82fd9.jpg)
![view from atop the retaining wall.jpg view from atop the retaining wall.jpg](https://www.treasurenet.com/data/attachments/1543/1543547-ad9c1c9c712cb77ad881331f1513d74a.jpg)
![retaining wall dolostone boulder1a.jpg retaining wall dolostone boulder1a.jpg](https://www.treasurenet.com/data/attachments/1543/1543556-204bf1eb6acfed5aa4f0bb82f7bf9ab0.jpg)
![bluff 1a.jpg bluff 1a.jpg](https://www.treasurenet.com/data/attachments/1543/1543579-d549c36312eae79661acf4f6f3098d72.jpg)
![view north.jpg view north.jpg](https://www.treasurenet.com/data/attachments/1543/1543593-bf5fe02f762d3c7be7376e3f7fc2ff7a.jpg)
rock in the sand with yellow/orange oxide draining
![yellow oxide.jpg yellow oxide.jpg](https://www.treasurenet.com/data/attachments/1543/1543627-7668e49ddc4c55756637b1f640429916.jpg)
Typical selection of beach rocks
![dry beach rocks.jpg dry beach rocks.jpg](https://www.treasurenet.com/data/attachments/1543/1543651-135710c4414cbea786ecd2e89e66388e.jpg)
If you zoom in you can see sand details
![chert and quartz sand.jpg chert and quartz sand.jpg](https://www.treasurenet.com/data/attachments/1543/1543659-8c1bcb50029df8f0c102bc356426013f.jpg)
fossiliferous limestone
![fossiliferus limestone.jpg fossiliferus limestone.jpg](https://www.treasurenet.com/data/attachments/1543/1543671-dc51f024f68f1b517c08a7f10faf417c.jpg)
Shallow water view
![rocks under water.jpg rocks under water.jpg](https://www.treasurenet.com/data/attachments/1543/1543674-f8b5ecaa423bd6509049875dc387613d.jpg)
![just after a wave.jpg just after a wave.jpg](https://www.treasurenet.com/data/attachments/1543/1543689-1b70f72d4a7ffba64484dac9187772fb.jpg)
Looking up at the bluff from the beach, you can see the water draining at the base, large clumps of mud/clay break off and eventually it get's sucked into the lake by waves.
![looking up at the bluff.jpg looking up at the bluff.jpg](https://www.treasurenet.com/data/attachments/1543/1543713-c38edbb82a934c10467b8f25d75a2eac.jpg)
Red rock with quartz (football size)
![red rock with quartz.jpg red rock with quartz.jpg](https://www.treasurenet.com/data/attachments/1543/1543746-e89807deab4eba827281b047128f688c.jpg)
banded quartz sandstone
![banded quartz sandstone is my guess.jpg banded quartz sandstone is my guess.jpg](https://www.treasurenet.com/data/attachments/1543/1543762-9cab526a2674cfd1a9882b54d02f160f.jpg)
Another bluff shot, you can see the the rocks funneling down the channel that will end up on the beach to get cleaned by the lakes waves.
![bluff rocks heading towards the lake.jpg bluff rocks heading towards the lake.jpg](https://www.treasurenet.com/data/attachments/1543/1543777-8b3d52267950cc5db78d9d0ef508f0f9.jpg)
Interesting boulder, either a granitoid or syenite has a section of fine grain on it to go with the coarser main body.
![beach boulder syenite or granite.jpg beach boulder syenite or granite.jpg](https://www.treasurenet.com/data/attachments/1543/1543802-8a9a5755df833172dde811b824318114.jpg)
This is where I turned around, all the snow and ice is now long gone.
![turned around here.jpg turned around here.jpg](https://www.treasurenet.com/data/attachments/1543/1543813-68d09e4eeb4f0d666d614070e1127c95.jpg)
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