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This is a picture of beautiful Agate Beach. The picture was taken at the little lookout at the top of the trail-head inside the Patrick’s Point State campground on the Northern California Coast. I believe we snapped this picture around 1996 / 97 when we were on our Summer camping trip.
In the lower corner of this picture you can see the sand cloud in the waters. That is where most of the agates, quartz, jaspers, and sometimes California jade can be found on the beach. The ocean tides slowly move the gemstones around the crescent … polishing them … and they end up where the sand cloud is.
My wife and I used to go camping at Patrick’s Point annually until we moved too far away in 2001. Rockhounding is great on the beach as there are some beautiful agates and quartz that have been polished by the waves. We used to sit down there for hours looking for interesting stones.
When I was a kid my parents brought to this location a few times and I always had a blast. The “sand cliff” shown in the picture used to have a cave carved in it about 75 to 100 feet up. I used to love going in that cave !
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