Docia and I met at the secret spot last week to follow up on my pocket find at the lower level and see if we could find a few more pockets while there. We drove in early morning to beat the heat and no sooner did we arrive, did we start finding new pockets. I decided to see if the last two pockets I had found, would expand any….

…while she went to the left and found a couple of new ones right away.

…she first found a little ledge between us and then a drill hole and then she kept moving to the left and found an opening into what turned out to be a perfectly round pocket opening with a cluster of poker chips in the middle embedded into rock….

..and here are a few of her finds….

I decided to see if either of the two pockets I discovered last week, would open up more…one had been filled with water but now a week later was dried up…so I worked on it first…

…and removed as many loose crystals as I could from it, then worked on the face of the pocket and removed some more plates…

and was able to pull these plates and crystals out…

…once I had the pocket opening expanded, I was able to see some nice druse plates inside….

..and while trying to expand the pocket opening, I was able to chip a few plates like this one off…

…as well as these plates and combos…

…I then moved over to the right to expand the other pocket as much as I could…

..and boy did it keep going back…and back…and finally I got to this point, above, and could reach in up to my shoulder and felt yet another pocket above and to the right…

….and Docia expanded all of her pockets as well…

..until we were both wore out after digging for four hours non stop….I was able to remove two bags of poker chips alone….

..including several poker chip twins…and several nice plates apiece…