Hauser geode beds

Here's a different kind of Howser bed!  LOL

I wish safe travels and many rock finds!

Wow!!!!!!!

Pictures are not in order but I'm not going to attempt to move them around.

We were lucky enough to come across two different tortoises.



After a short visit to the camp next to us we came back to loads of bees mostly on our camp stove.  There was a pot of water on the stove and they were apparently after that.  They really liked the wet sponge.  They were all over this little agate after I handled it with wet hands.






Didn't see any snakes, just this shed skin a short way from the tortoise in the burrow.




At the end of the first day we broke off from the group and stayed the night out in the field.  We were treated to amazing sunset colors when we were cooking dinner.




This one reminds me of Cotton Candy Agate.



These flowers are actually at our campsite the first night.  Wiley's Well Campground.  You get a parking area, concrete picnic table with a steel roof over it, a trash can and a nearby pit toilet.  It was pretty empty.  After April 15 there are no fees.  It's the same campsite we stayed in in January.


Saw two different kinds of lizards.  I wish I had got pics of the other one.



This is around the Hauser bed area and where I got most of the eggs in the other pic.  The dark spots on the left hand side of the pic, just above the pit are T eggs.  Some of them are part of the rocks.  There were better ones in the cavity area.  The top overhang was getting dangerous though so we knocked a bunch free and then moved it out.



Most of the ocotillo were in bloom and were beautiful.







More Ocotillo blooms.



This is the sunrise from the first morning in the campground.




This is the guy I found early morning, up and about.  We went on a walk from our truck before we met up with the other group  (9 o'clock was way to late to meet!) and he was cruising across a wide open area.


This is were we slept out at by the Hauser beds were we had the beautiful sunset.  I don't know how my 4 door, full size Chevy is hiding behind my brother's Toyota but it's doing a pretty good job.  I made sure I parked with the truck facing south so I could get a good view of the sunrise in the morning.   I sleep on a platform on the left side of the camper.




I think this is what our 2nd day leader was calling Porcelain Jasper.







Looking down on the group from one of the collection sites.  There's been a bit of geode digging going on the upper left side.


Saw this guy down in one of the gullies.  He was about 6 foot tall.   The wall behind him is about 10 foot.

Wow, the wildlife is crazy. Did you seriously find that tortoise out there or did someone bring their pet? And what were the bees doing around that rock? I really like the big stone with red seams of something running through it. We’re you able to take any of that home or are you not allowed to break anything up? Anyway, glad you got to go, looks like a fun trip.🪨👍

Amazing pictures.  Rocks, plants and animals!   

What is the greenish rock with the pick to the right?   Thanks.