[Rockhounds] Best 2008 Collecting Trips

[Cheri Moody]

We had a few really good adventures in 2008. 
One of our favorites is a pretty well known site in Blythe, CA. It is off the beaten path out in the desert near Wiley, and Coon Hollow.  We dug up some really nice Geodes and found a few good specimen's of Fire Agate near the Opal mine. Another really nice place that we enjoy is the Jade Cove up in Northern Cali, near Big Sur. We have a really nice Jade rock shaped in a heart that is very precious to us. We also found some good pieces of Agate and Jasper near Calico, Cali. Was a fantastic year for our Rockhounding trips. The Fishing was not bad either! 
 
Cheri Moody  




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From: Glenn Wimpee <pawpawtiger at hotmail.com>
To: rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com
Sent: Saturday, January 3, 2009 10:27:06 PM
Subject: [Rockhounds] Best 2008 Collecting Trips


ALL of them!

These are my 3 top picks: 1) The Falls of the Ohio State Park collecting piles to Eastern PA and lots of stops including Franklin, N.C. on our super trip up one side and down the other from the Gulf Coast to Niagara Falls. Several trips in one that included fossils (my first self collected brachiopods) and minerals including Eastonite and a mystery "rock" with reddish starbursts and slightly radioactive with a bit of thorium.

2) Canoeing down the Peace River in Florida and finding lots of shark teeth, ray plates, and a nice fossil gator tooth with Jeanette.

3) A few minutes the day after Christmas at a small road cut off the Natchez Trace near Tupelo, Mississippi with my rock loving grandson finding exogyra oysters and gastropods in an exposure of the Selma Chalk Fomation.
Glenn 



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