A few days after we expanded the birthday pocket and after I found the neat deep pocket ten inches under solid rock, we returned and found yet another nice pocket, this one full of mainly nice large clusters of poker chips and druse/chip combos. After we parked, I told Docia that radar had showed a squall line about two hours away and some rain and storms behind it. So for the first two hours we dug in areas we thought there was potential for pockets. About 8 am,  Docia started raking the gravel back from the wall with her mini mattox, about three feet from the birthday pocket and next to the wall…..

….and I was up near the hole in the rock pocket, when I heard her yell out. I walked over to see what she found, and she was holding up two nice combos, with a pretty gray druse and large poker chips of a pale yellow color, sticking out of the druse all over each piece, both pieces nearly basketball sized. I told her to hold that thought while I retrieved my camera.

By the time I returned with my camera, she had put those two on the ground and had two more nice druse plates pulled out and they had poker chips attached to them as well….

Well she went to get her mat and set it down for her knees so she could get ready to pull some more nice ones out…here is the pocket she was working…

…and here is a photo of one of the gemmy poker chip / druse combos pulled out a few minutes before, with some other druse plates nearby….

..and this one came out right behind that one…also gemmy looking…

Within a few minutes, Docia pulled yet another large cluster out of the gravel pocket….here is one side of it….

the first photo shows a solid cluster of poker chips on one side and the second photo shows gray druse and poker chips on the other side of the chunk….about this time, we looked up and saw the squall line coming up on us from the southwest and knew it would be storming soon….

…we were still pulling nice ones out when the rain caught up with us and started getting heavy…I grabbed my camera and headed to the truck and she soon followed…we sat it out in the truck for an hour, watching the lightning popping right and left, intense pink flashes lighting up the sky all around us, until the skies finally lightened up and the rain started to slow way down.

We got out and returned to the pocket and saw that the rain had washed off some of our pieces nicely, and we started digging once again, and again began to pull out some nice pieces, plus we soon hit the solid poker chip bottom of the pocket about eighteen inches down, and then found a pocket on the left near corner, and one on the right away corner. Docia decided to explore the pocket on the right and I took the pocket on the left. We explored our spur pockets for about twenty minutes before hitting solid rock and decided to stop there for the day, since it looked like more rain might move in. I didn`t have my camera with me for the latter part since it was still threatening to rain more, but I did take some photos of my bring home goodies….

 

….the three photos above show the one that Docia was holding up with two sides to it, solid cluster on one side as the third photo shows and druse / chip combo on the other side as the first two photos show.

..and here is another one, that has two sides, side A above and side B below…

..and here are a few more combos from the pocket….

 

..and one of the druse plates we found…sorry its a bit blurry….

…and yet another cluster that came out of the pocket…

…and even more clusters and combos….

…and just so you don`t think that all we took out of this pocket were combos and clusters, here are some of the twins we found in there as well…

Quite a nice haul for having to sit out an hour waiting for the storm to pass by….