{"id":754,"date":"2011-09-07T19:18:17","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T19:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jwjrocks.com\/?p=754"},"modified":"2016-03-20T04:53:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T04:53:39","slug":"secret-spot-revisit-end-of-august-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jwjrocks.com\/?p=754","title":{"rendered":"Secret Spot Revisit End of August 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well Docia decided the weather had broke and cooled enough that she could join me on another revisit to our friend the secret spot, so we met down there one morning at 8 am, to beat what heat there might be, and yes it did get a little warm, but Thank GOD nothing like it has been like lately. I took the long way in and found her there, not waiting on me, poking around up on the pile already. I snapped a couple of photos and turned Missy loose, then grabbed my bag and headed up to see what was being found.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"At<\/a>\"At<\/a><\/p>\n

We searched all over the main pile which is seen to the left of our vehicles in this second image, and didn`t find much, so she walked over to the east side and looked for drusy quartz plates….<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Docia<\/a><\/p>\n

…while I found these two combos of druse and poker chips laying on top of the smaller piles…<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Druse<\/a><\/p>\n

….and this big one…<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Large<\/a><\/p>\n

…I then decided to see if there were anymore pockets to be found in the area of the pockets I found a week or two ago…and Docia decided she would help me search…<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Pocket<\/a><\/p>\n

…everything was beginning to look like we were heading toward that big boulder in the upper end of the image, and I told Docia, if it goes that way, you get to move it out of the way…she looked at me and said, yeah right…we`ll leave that one for Floyd when he gets back on vacation…<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lucky for us, both of the new pockets we found, didn`t get that far..<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Two<\/a><\/p>\n

…the one on the left was full of poker chips and druse plates and the one on the right was mainly druse and some poker chips…we only found a few of the dark center spot gray and blue ones this time, found a few orange and honey colored ones with brownish reddish coloring…some nice doubles and triples and combos….<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Poker<\/a><\/p>\n

….and if you look closely at the closeup of the deeper pocket, you can see the poker chips clinging to the walls…<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"First<\/a><\/p>\n

….those are like little cave pockets they are in, surrounded by a three to five inch layer of dolomite, that can take a while to chisel down into, let me tell ya. I use a four pound hammer and chisels that Mike suggested I get, two pointed tips and two straight tips…someone suggested I get a bigger hammer, could do more with it…well let me tell you, you also need more energy to do more with a bigger hammer, cause they weigh more too…lol…I can wear myself out and do just as much good in just as short a time with the four pound hammer as I prob could with a bigger hammer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I could prob do just as much good and maybe less work for me with a stick of dynamite too, but I can already hear Virgil saying ” yeah and just think how many poker chips you would damage too “….lol….and I would never hear the end of that one, believe me !<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well I did go get my hammer and chisel and chip a few smaller pieces out…after we pulled several little crystals out loose from the pockets….<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Crystals<\/a><\/p>\n

…and plates of druse too….I walked over to get my hammer and chisels and took a pic of Docia resting by the pockets real quick….<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Docia<\/a><\/p>\n

….while I chipped out some poker chips like this one…<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Yellow<\/a><\/p>\n

…she walked over to the bluff, by then in the nice shade, and poked around and found a few pockets in the bluff wall right at eye level and slightly lower…<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Bluff<\/a><\/p>\n

…she filled up a bag of chips and druse and decided she had had enough of the heat, had some nice new pretties and took off for home. After chipping out what I could from the new pockets, I decided to take a look at the pockets in the bluff and see what could be seen inside them…very pretty pockets indeed…<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Bluff<\/a><\/p>\n

..with little druse plates and poker chips laying all over inside…<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Interior<\/a><\/p>\n

..and after finding these two small dogtooth crystals, one the size of a quarter and the smaller one the size of a dime, with a little bit of poker chip formation….<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"2<\/a><\/p>\n

…I decided I had had enough as well and headed home to clean up and rest up….so I`ll leave you with the pretties taken home on the tailgate of my truck and three bags full in the bed…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"Pretties<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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