Host Peter McCully welcomes Christa Stone and Doug Whittles to the podcast, both members of the Parksville and District Rock and Gem Club.

Whittles is a geologist.

‘I often find a lot of incredible rocks with my work, and I work in the Haida Gwaii and Vancouver Island generally and some of my favorites have come from the Haida Gwaii in terms of just different Thunder Eggs and some of the Blue Jaspers and different varieties that you can find. But locally between Nanaimo, Parksville, Lake Cowichan and Port Alberni, there's an incredible array of amazing gemstones that I think most people aren't quite aware of yet.  It's becoming more and more aware to the general public, but it's just amazing for me’.

Christa Stone says visitors to the show will see a various types of rock in various stages of being finished, jewelry and gemstones.

The pair have begun a YouTube page to try and educate and promote how valuable rocks can be.

‘Rocks are just as valuable as gold, silver, and even gemstones, they're not as popular as gold. What we're trying to get people to realize is rocks and semi-precious gemstones and everything have really good value. In fact, if you take a mine and you value out the gold and the silver and the copper and the mine and all the process that you have to do to get that gold and silver out and then you weigh all the rock and you sell the rock by weight, it's actually more money than the gold, silver and the copper’.

More information on the Parksville and District Rock and Gem Club can be found here and the WhittlesStone YouTube page can be found here.