woody with a view - 5-29-2016 at 05:00 PM
Jerry was one of my best friends growing up. He and Marty turned me on to Baja when I was in 9th grade at Collier Jr High in SD. If I had $5 for gas
I'd leave my surfboard w/ Jerry the night before. They'd pick me up in front of school and we'd haul burro down to Baja Malibu or Popotla for the day
to surf. I learnt more during these ditch sessions than the school could ever teach me!
Anyway, Jerry used to walk along the point breaks of Baja looking for that perfectly round, palm-sized rock that took a thousand years to roll down a
mountain, find a river and be transported all the way to the beach. I took up the search after Jerry died from diabetes almost 20 years ago. Here's my
stash!
bajabuddha - 5-29-2016 at 05:10 PM
Nice balls, Woody !! 
bkbend - 5-29-2016 at 07:46 PM
Nice display, I didn't know they were Indian baseballs. I keep mine in an Easter basket instead of eggs.
imlost - 5-30-2016 at 03:14 AM
I thought I was the only one on the planet who collected those.
I do a lot of multi-day river trips in the NW US, and whenever I have a moment to myself, I look on the riverbanks for the most perfectly round rocks
I can find. They are way harder to find than you would think. That's a very nice collection that has obviously taken you a while to accumulate. Even
though it's basically worthless, my collection of round rocks is one of the things I cherish the most on this planet - it always takes me back to that
"place". Thanks for sharing your story about Jerry, which really shows us all about you. Awesome.
durrelllrobert - 5-30-2016 at 08:05 AM
Balls: Adam hadem and so does Woody
AKgringo - 5-30-2016 at 09:35 AM
I met a guy in Grass Valley CA that had a nice snooker ball sized piece of white quartz, that was about 50% gold. I'm still looking for mine!
PaulW - 5-30-2016 at 02:28 PM
Stopped once in the middle of L Salida and laying on the ground were several rock balls. I saved the big one which is about 3" diameter. almost a
perfect sphere. Composition is typical of granite.
What I find around here in Colorado are brown, but they are shaped like small oval potatoes. Ha - I save them as well.
bajabuddha - 5-30-2016 at 02:31 PM
Somebody made a REALLY BIG STASH of 'em at El Pedregoso!
woody with a view - 5-30-2016 at 02:46 PM
Buddha, the first time I drove my son past Pedregoso I asked him "how in the hell did those rocks get there"? Being 17 he said "they stacked them
there when they built the road".
I can't wait to dive past on Saturday and ask him again. This time with an elbow in the ribs and a big laugh!
bajabuddha - 5-30-2016 at 03:14 PM
INDIAN BASEBALLS: Is it the Cleveland Indians, or Washington... or Atlanta... nevermind.
They're also known as Indan Love Stones too..... as in, just another f***in' rock. 
(not to be confused with either Leaverite or Leavitrite) 