After listening to the forecasters last night talking about rain all day on Sunday, I decided to head back to the secret spot again today to take advantage of the continued great fall weather…I checked with Kay before I left town, but she was restricted to wedding detail today and couldn`t make it, so Missy and I headed south a little after 11 am.

We arrived to find a very high wind and dust blowing everywhere….

…so thick as I drove across the flats, that at times I couldn`t even see the front of the hood on my truck….

I drove across to the far side and decided to see if I could find some druse first this trip. I grabbed a bag and my rake and headed down the slope of the upper location to see what could be located today…here is the view from the bottom of the slope…

After finding two nice pieces of druse right out of the truck, I soon discovered there were quite a few chunks of nice poker chips all over the slope as well as druse, and it didn`t take me long to find the first nice chunk of druse with poker chips attached….

 

..I no sooner stuck this one in the bag, than I turned around and saw the second one, very pretty and my first find of the day….

…this one about the size of a softball and very nice and colorful, despite having been out in the sun all summer….a few steps away, I found these two close together….

The 4th find, turned out to be my second surprise and second find of the day…it doesn`t look like it here, but following advice from Docia, I dug it out….

….and then I turned it over to see the other side….

…and I was like WOW…..carried that one up to the truck and wrapped it up right then….came back to within five feet of my bag, that I had left near the bottom of the hill, and found number five….

…a nice druse with hematite balls and a poker chip attached….and found these two pretties sitting in the sand next to the truck…

…then I came back down to the bottom of the slope and found Missy sittin pretty and looking out across the moonscape….

…then I turned and spotted another pretty….

…there was no doubt that fourteen was going home with me…very sweet poker chip here……and then I turned around and spotted these two close together….

…lets see if you can find number 17 in this mess…..it was easy for me…I almost stepped on it…why you have to watch where you step at all times in a rock strewn field like I was in….

..sometimes you never know where you will find them…this one was partially hiding on me under a big rock….

..and this beauty was pulling the out in plain site maneuver and sitting pretty in the sand when I spotted it….

…while number 21, a nice druse plate with a poker chip or two attached, was nestled in some rocks while I was walking back to the truck…I actually spotted 22, 23, and 24 and sat my bag down next to 21….

 

…and I found this nice little number as I was getting near the road…large druse chunk with multicolored crystals….large crystals on it too….well I loaded all of these up and then decided to drive down to the lower spot, I had had enough of the dust blowing around and wanted to get out of the wind for a while and check out the pockets again….

the upper pocket into the slope is the pocket I worked yesterday and again today at first….after removing poker chips and nice druse plates from the upper pocket, I discovered the pocket going deeper and back toward where I was sitting….on top of yet another pocket, hence the lower pocket where you see my red hand rake sitting…I pulled some nice druse plates with big poker chips attached to them…you will see them in the next few photos….

and one more a little closer up….

…all in all a great day weather wise and finds wise….now they are calling for morning showers tomorrow and clear and sunny skies in the afternoon….hmmmmm wonder what I could find to do tomorrow….