Geode Hunting

one of Gemma's finds

These are a few of my favorite ones that I won't let James open.

We went Geode Hunting about 2 weekends ago. Ever since I saw that there was a place to do that pretty close by (by close i mean 2.5 hours on totally dirt trail ) I really wanted to take the kids and go check it out.

It was so much fun! The pictures don't really do it justice because I was too busy looking for them too.
Opened one
Down in the pit digging out the geodes...
At first when we finally fot out to the sign that is quite mis leading by the way, it seemed like a bust, there were holes everywhere where people had previously dug, and after digging for a while, and finding nothing we figured it was all played out. So James decided to do a bit of 4-wheeling since we were already out in the hills... boy stuff you know ;-). Gemma was worried and said "we can never find our house cause it's too far now"
So we were just out riding and we crested a hill and saw an old excavator, we decided to go see why there would be one just sitting there because people don't usually ditch heavy equipment like they do with cars.... anyway we came upon the actual geode beds it was so Awesome!!! We spent a few hours looking and came back with a huge bucket full and I cannot wait to go back! Thank you James for a great and memorable day!
So the reason for the digger is that man that owns the property goes out 2 times a year and digs up some of the beds and then he allows people to go look for the geodes.