Post by Sabre52 on Apr 12, 2012 8:37:44 GMT -5
Howdy folks,
Well it was a gorgeous day in Texas yesterday so the wife and I headed south for another Live Oak County wood hunt. Weather was mild with a gentle breeze. Flowers and butterflies everywhere once again. Sadly, the road resurfacing for the oilfields continues and good wood roads are disappearing every day. Nothing like a foot of limestone caliche over all the wood to spoil a collecting spot. Met some lost folks all the way out from Virginia hunting wood and directed them to the main road. They had hunted here before many years ago and said the roads were literally paved in wood back then. You can still fill a couple of buckets in a day but have to drive around and walk a lot. For hunting this area, remember your sunscreen, bugspray ( chiggers) and your gem scoop. We saw a dead rattler picked clean by the birds and his ribcage was about six inches wide. You do not want to stick your hands in the bushes to pick up wood with those fellers around. Anyway, here are the scenery pics. Rock pics to follow when I have the catch washed off.
Typical roads covered with new caliche. Still wood in the roadside ditches if you walk far enough.
More rare unresurfaced road. This one had been well picked probably by Matt Dillon and his buddies *L*
A few wildflowers. Quite literally so much stuff in bloom you can barely breathe:
Now imagine that times a zillion.
Many butterflies but few wanted their picture took. This Emperor though, loved my jeep tires for some reason:
Sorted the wood. Pile on the left is palm including a couple of conical pieces of palm root and two full rounds ( one of each is shrinkwood) next pile from left is tumble material, then the big pile is slabbing quality wood, and the stuff on the right is my wife's garden rock pile. Really a lot of the slabbing stuff this time is either shrinkwood or wood casts where no wood grain is present, just moss agate or jasper.
Well it was a gorgeous day in Texas yesterday so the wife and I headed south for another Live Oak County wood hunt. Weather was mild with a gentle breeze. Flowers and butterflies everywhere once again. Sadly, the road resurfacing for the oilfields continues and good wood roads are disappearing every day. Nothing like a foot of limestone caliche over all the wood to spoil a collecting spot. Met some lost folks all the way out from Virginia hunting wood and directed them to the main road. They had hunted here before many years ago and said the roads were literally paved in wood back then. You can still fill a couple of buckets in a day but have to drive around and walk a lot. For hunting this area, remember your sunscreen, bugspray ( chiggers) and your gem scoop. We saw a dead rattler picked clean by the birds and his ribcage was about six inches wide. You do not want to stick your hands in the bushes to pick up wood with those fellers around. Anyway, here are the scenery pics. Rock pics to follow when I have the catch washed off.
Typical roads covered with new caliche. Still wood in the roadside ditches if you walk far enough.
More rare unresurfaced road. This one had been well picked probably by Matt Dillon and his buddies *L*
A few wildflowers. Quite literally so much stuff in bloom you can barely breathe:
Now imagine that times a zillion.
Many butterflies but few wanted their picture took. This Emperor though, loved my jeep tires for some reason:
Sorted the wood. Pile on the left is palm including a couple of conical pieces of palm root and two full rounds ( one of each is shrinkwood) next pile from left is tumble material, then the big pile is slabbing quality wood, and the stuff on the right is my wife's garden rock pile. Really a lot of the slabbing stuff this time is either shrinkwood or wood casts where no wood grain is present, just moss agate or jasper.
