This cache is part of the Emmet County History Quest Geo-Trail. When discovering the historic places in Emmet County as you travel from cache to cache, you will need to answer a specific question on your passport. Information and the passport can be downloaded from the Emmet County web site http://www.emmetcounty.org/geocache/
Once you have completed 20 of the caches in this tour, take your passport to Emmet County Building, Suite 178 or mail the passport to Beth Piehl, Emmet County Building, Suite 178, 200 Division St., Petoskey, MI 49770 to receive a collectable souvenir tag for this series.
The Petoskey Stone is Michigan’s state stone and consists of the fossilized remains of a type of colony coral called Hexagonaria percarinata. These colonies consisted of hundreds of individuals packed together into one mass. This coral lived about 350 million years ago during the Devonian age when the northern part of Michigan was covered with a salty sea of warm water.
When dry, the stones are gray, but when wet, the "eyes" magically appear. These eyes were the mouth of the corallite and surrounding this opening were the tentacles that were used for gathering plankton and drawing this food into its mouth. Two hunting places are the beaches at Petoskey State Park and Magnus Park in Petoskey.