Secret Spot Mid April 2010 Part 2

Well I almost forgot to post the second part of my weekend trip, had to get caught up on yard work yesterday and today before the rain comes in tomorrow, grass was already ten inches high.

Sunday morning I headed back, this time armed with a four pound hammer and chisels, ready to liberate the poker chips and druse plates from the dolomite limestone encasing them. I arrived mid morning and it was already hot, so I decided I was going to have to pace myself and so I started chipping away at the limestone above and surrounding the first pocket. I found it was so tough, that I was going to have to take it section by section, but holie cow, this stuff was tough as can be. After about an hour and making little progress, I decided I could have brought a jackhammer and prob wouldn`t have done much better.

I decided to move down to the fourth and fifth pocket and see what I could do down there, the stone around the first pocket was so tough the hammer just seemed to bounce off the chisel like it was a rubber mallet instead. Well I didn`t fare much better at the other pockets, I tried them all and after pounding on that bedrock for about four hours, I decided I had done enough damage, mainly to me, certainly not much to the hard rock. I was sweat soaked, wore out, and prob lost about five pounds. Here is what the pockets looked like after I wore out….

I decided to walk around and up on the remainder of the pile that I didn`t even check out on Saturday while there, and boy was I glad that I did that. Within just a few minutes of walking up on the slope, I started finding some very beautiful poker chip and druse attachments and a few twins and triples and singles. Within about an hour, I had filled four bags full of goodies, which included two or three large pieces and several small size pieces as well. By the time I got back to the truck with the four bags, folks, I was wore out and ready to head home. Missy was wore out just from the sun and heat alone, I was able to coax her to the shaded areas behind me and luckily she decided to lay down in those areas most of the time I was there, but she was ready to head home as well.

I was able to photograph many of the cleaned up goodies yesterday and will leave you with those pics to see what I was able to bring home. Another good weekend trip, even though I was wore out from the workout with the hammer and chisels. Now I know how Mike Streeter felt down in Kentucky a few weeks ago.

Here are the two micro sized dogtooth crystals found in pocket two, pulled them out looking just like they do here…and next are the honey brown poker chips cleaned up that led me to the pockets…

and then there were the plates of druse with poker chips attached…

this last one fit in the palm of my hand but was gorgeous and came out of one of the pockets…this next one I found up in the rock pile and it has three sides…

and this next one was one I almost stepped on in the rocks and glad I didn`t….

and some limestone balls of druse that I found in the rocks too…

and here are some of the smaller plates of druse that came out of the pockets with small poker chips attached, some of the plates have limonite balls mixed in with the druse quartz too…