Next morning the North Shore Gang headed out on Route 62 North to a road cut beyond the Bird Creek Road Crossing.  Some partially  weathered Feldspar clusters caught the boy's attention, and they were soon knocking down some of the Feldspar groups.  To my astonishment a police cruiser drove right by us, even with one of our gang perched high up on a ledge!  Awesome to visit a country that doesn't have a police state or Big Brother OSHA ready to pounce.
Georgina Grace found the prize at that stop --- tiny butterscotch-colored micro crystals.  We all collected some.  I took a specimen to the Provincial Geologist's identification table at the Show.  He didn't know what it was either, but said he would get back to me.  Several months later I received a letter from the Show Chairman saying the micro mineral was Chabazite.  At this road cut we also found Moonstone, Sanidine, Hornblende, and Red Calcite.
In the afternoon we drove a long way out on Routes 28 and 121, out beyond Tory Hill to Bear Lake on the Shore of Glamor Lake in Monmouth Township.  That should certainly give a host of different label locations for the same place.
Bear Lake (or whatever) looks like Hastings Farm, Fonda, NY in Herkimer County ("foxholes" and trenches).  And sure enough, thanks to a violent thunderstorm the night before, the old diggings yielded little crystals of Apatite and Titanite.
An elder statesman of collectors, Vincent Berzins, showed us what to look for.  He had his car trunk filled with pails full of enormous 8 inch dish plate-sized glossy "spheres" and mega-amphibole crystals and cigar to almost beer can sized Apatites, plus interesting specimens of "Lepidomelane" the Ferrian Biotite.  He showed Phil and Joe how to go about digging their own.  "Dig a 5 to 6 foot deep hole first", he said, "then dig trenches out from there." Priscilla and I decided to pass on that engineering operation and picked raspberries instead.  We left around 5:00 p.m. The rest kept up the good work until dark.  Over the two days they dug a trench 20 feet long! 
Priscilla and I decided to forego a return trip to Bear Lake the next day.  Instead, we thought we would try out Norm Biggart's Geiger counter that he had lent us, so we headed to The Silver Crater Mine, noted for Betafite crystals (that Inge and Dana Jewell had collected there some years ago).  Sadly, the woman at the entrance house told us that our van couldn't make it over the 1 1/2-mile rutty road.
So our next stop was at Faraday Hill in Cardiff right under the TV towers.  We spent over an hour there collecting salmon pink calcite, pale blue, almost colorless Tremolite, deep blue Apatite, and radioactive Uraninite crystals.
Priscilla and I returned to the tailgating section of the Gemboree to check out specimens that the local collectors had gathered from the locations we had already visited.
As if we hadn't crammed enough into one day, at 2:30 p.m. we drove south to Woodfield, the village nearest to the entrance to Algonkian Petroglyphs Provincial Park.  It is an enormous tract of land that is under the Ontario Parks System umbrella.  The Curve Lake First Nations Indian Tribes are the caretakers-custodians.  We drove for what seemed like miles before we reached the Petroglyphs.  These are protected by a large glass and

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