{"id":2608,"date":"2012-06-06T20:39:11","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T20:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jwjrocks.com\/?p=2608"},"modified":"2013-06-17T04:42:57","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T04:42:57","slug":"waterhole-pocket-end-of-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jwjrocks.com\/?p=2608","title":{"rendered":"Waterhole Pocket End of May"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well I am now officially four stories behind…thats what I get for traveling so much I guess, going to have to take off more time to catch up after I return I guess. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I decided to return to the secret spot and see if I could find more of the dogtooth crystals, so I drove down one evening mid week and took a look around.\u00a0 After examining the pocket more closely, I was only able to pull a few more out and decided to leave the embedded ones for Docia to chip out, cause she is better at chipping those little crystals out than I am. I scratched around the surface on either side of the pocket to see if I could locate a back way in, but had no luck. I also attempted to drain the waterhole above the pocket since it seemed to drain well into the second and third waterhole, so I expanded the little trench to do so…felt like a kid again, playing in the water….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"02A<\/a><\/p>\n

…I found a few small pockets down below the dogtooth pocket but nothing to write home about……<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"03A<\/a><\/p>\n

….I felt the big waterhole calling to me so I went up to explore it further and after scratching around and finding potential calcite, I decided to do some tamping around a bit on the dome rock…. it sounded hollow so I decided to dig and explore as much as I could…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…and so I dug in and pretty soon the bottom dropped out and this hole appeared….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"06A<\/a><\/p>\n

I decided if this wound up being a pocket, I sure didnt want to flood it, so I backed off and dammed off the waterhole so it wouldnt flood it…..<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"07A<\/a><\/p>\n

…after I got that done, I started working on exploring the hole more…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"08A<\/a><\/p>\n

…and let me tell you, everytime something fell down into that hole, it sounded deep, could hear water below and the rocks were splashing so I figured it must be a deep pocket of something, which didnt surprise me since the dome of rock to my left side sounded hollow. I started removing some thick plates of druse and pretty soon had the pocket expanded to this….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"09A<\/a><\/p>\n

…I pulled about six plates out as I was expanding the pocket and several poker chip crystals from the bottom…all too soon, the sun started setting on me, and Missy and I decided to wrap up what I had collected and head home….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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