Well after a long hard week at work and here at home dealing with a local tragedy, I decided to take a break yesterday with the cool down and drove down to the secret spot to get away…I had decided it wouldn`t matter if I found nothing, just the opportunity to go would be enough for me…but as I have said in the past and still believe, when I`m out rockhunting, especially there, I feel a higher power guides me around and shows me where to look…and felt that way again yesterday. Some call that a special talent and I call it a special blessing or gift, just as life is a gift.

I found a few nice pieces of druse on the way down, it was hot when I first got out of the truck but not sweltering hot like it has been last several weeks, when you felt like you had a blanket wrapped around you…there was a breeze yesterday too, which felt good. I really didn`t intend to stay long, mainly wanted to check and see if they had been working the slope again and if there were any new disturbances to look thru…I really wanted to check on other areas to see if I could find some poker chips that had been moved around.

As I drove in, I saw some new stuff sitting around, or what appeared to me to be new looking, it had been a few months since I had been there so wasn`t real sure if new or not, but appeared to be new. It also looked like more material had been taken out, so I stopped to do a surface check and let Missy out of the truck as well to wander around. With this weather bubble we had been locked into the past two months, she hadn`t been runnning around outside much so this was a good opportunity for her to stretch her legs also…

I got up on top of the first pile and looked around, and spotted one at the bottom that needed a closer look….but as I was climbing down, I spotted two more that were very nice looking…

..the one on the left yellow colored with small straws rising up off it, but one big bubble chunk by itself…the one on the right a reddish bubble chunk too…both sitting close together up on the pile…half buried by the rocks and dust but sticking up enough to spot…

Well with my hands now full, I decided to walk them back to the truck and grab my camera and take some pics…and go back and check that one at the bottom of the pile that looked very nice…I was about to find out just how nice, nice was….

…figured if there was a pretty one like this here….

…see the blue bag above ? I found the pretty center prize poker chip and druse about ten feet to the left at the base of that pile, just left of the yellow bare spot center spot….I looked down at that center spot where I was standing when I picked up the beauty…….and started seeing small poker chips right under a thin layer of dust, that yellow dust you see there…..and decided maybe I should scratch around a little with my hand rake and just see what might be there…figured maybe there might be another nice prize there lurking…sure never figured to find what I found though…

…and as I dug down, I started finding even prettier stuff…

…I moved my bag up out of the way of the direction the pocket started to take and spotted this pretty druse to the left of the bag….

..and had yet another nice bubble druse piece to take home….so then I started to gently dig down into the pocket with my hand rake…

..and as I got down into the pocket, I began to see poker chips sticking out all over the place…plus I was seeing small plates of soda straw druse as well…

…they were hanging upside down in the shelf to the right side of the pocket and while a few came out easily, most did not…but one of the first small plates I pulled out had a poker chip attached and was quite pretty….

..and the pocket started expanding even more…toward the pile of rocks I had my blue bag sitting on…so I moved the bag and started working the pocket toward the clearing right behind the bag……and as I kept digging and expanding the pocket, I kept finding more druse and more poker chips…

…I started pulling more druse and poker chip combo pieces out like this one….

…and this double chip crystal on matrix….

..but nothing prepared me for what I started finding five minutes later as the pocket expanded from a second honey hole….

….to a third honey hole….

….and all of them full of dark blue poker chips with a beautiful gray or black center….

..and here is what they look like up close, although this one is a bit brown colored and I have some better ones now cleaned up…

..and as I was digging up above the third pocket to see if anything else was there, or if the pocket went further, I saw this football sized chunk and in the upper right hand corner, although it was turned over and facing down when I first saw it, I turned it over and this is what I pleasantly found…

and the final one of it…right before I left the quarry with two filled bags and several this size and larger.

What a nice day !!