Post by drocknut on Jan 17, 2011 14:18:14 GMT -5
I couldn't find anyone to go with me and the weather was perfect lots of sun and temperatures in the 70's, so I said, what the heck, and went rockhounding by myself with some directions from rockhobbit. Here are some pictures:
This is the view I got when I parked to look around for geodes/nodules/thundereggs. I was told different things about what the area material is called. The books say they are geodes, rockhobbit tells me they are thunder eggs, and I call them nodules. Oh well, a rock by any other name is still a great rock in my book...lol.
A saguaro standing tall.
There were many types of cactus out there including beaver tail, teddy bear cholla, saguaro, staghorn cholla, and mesquite "trees" (I know they aren't considered cactus but they have sharp thorns so rank right up there with cactus in my book...lol).
I was in a wash looking for rocks when I came upon this scene. Thought it looked like a "typical desert" picture. The saguaro are rather large in person.
The moon was coming up over the desert and it was getting close to sunset so I decided to call it a day, headed back to the truck with a bag full of rocks, tired but happy.
Here are the rocks I found. Some of them are really cool pieces of chalcedony or geodes with chalcedony peaking out from the rest of the rock.
A cute little nodule with chalcedony sticking out.
Common opal with chalcedony bubbles in it.
I call this the big mouth rock. Looked like it was yelling at me from the ground so I had to pick it up...lol.
One last view at the area where I parked my truck before I headed off into the sunset. I literally did head off into the sunset as my mom lives north west of the area. I didn't have a horse so my truck headed off into the sunset instead.
Arizona sunset and the end of a great day of rockhounding.
I didn't get to see the lake because the area closer to the lake is a fee area and I would rather look for rocks than pay to see a man made lake. I'm sure it is as beautiful as the rest of the area (for a desert that is...lol). Thanks for coming along with me.
I so want to do some more rockhounding while I'm here so if anyone wants to go hounding or knows of any good 2wd accessible areas around Wickenburg/Phoenix/Quartzsite I'd love to hear from them. If you have a 4X4 I'd be willing to help with gas for a chance at some really great rocks. I'm only here for a few more weeks so got to get in as much rock hunting time as possible. Please don't make me have to go alone into the desert in search of rocks with cactus as my only companions and no direction to look
This is the view I got when I parked to look around for geodes/nodules/thundereggs. I was told different things about what the area material is called. The books say they are geodes, rockhobbit tells me they are thunder eggs, and I call them nodules. Oh well, a rock by any other name is still a great rock in my book...lol.
A saguaro standing tall.
There were many types of cactus out there including beaver tail, teddy bear cholla, saguaro, staghorn cholla, and mesquite "trees" (I know they aren't considered cactus but they have sharp thorns so rank right up there with cactus in my book...lol).
I was in a wash looking for rocks when I came upon this scene. Thought it looked like a "typical desert" picture. The saguaro are rather large in person.
The moon was coming up over the desert and it was getting close to sunset so I decided to call it a day, headed back to the truck with a bag full of rocks, tired but happy.
Here are the rocks I found. Some of them are really cool pieces of chalcedony or geodes with chalcedony peaking out from the rest of the rock.
A cute little nodule with chalcedony sticking out.
Common opal with chalcedony bubbles in it.
I call this the big mouth rock. Looked like it was yelling at me from the ground so I had to pick it up...lol.
One last view at the area where I parked my truck before I headed off into the sunset. I literally did head off into the sunset as my mom lives north west of the area. I didn't have a horse so my truck headed off into the sunset instead.
Arizona sunset and the end of a great day of rockhounding.
I didn't get to see the lake because the area closer to the lake is a fee area and I would rather look for rocks than pay to see a man made lake. I'm sure it is as beautiful as the rest of the area (for a desert that is...lol). Thanks for coming along with me.
I so want to do some more rockhounding while I'm here so if anyone wants to go hounding or knows of any good 2wd accessible areas around Wickenburg/Phoenix/Quartzsite I'd love to hear from them. If you have a 4X4 I'd be willing to help with gas for a chance at some really great rocks. I'm only here for a few more weeks so got to get in as much rock hunting time as possible. Please don't make me have to go alone into the desert in search of rocks with cactus as my only companions and no direction to look
