Geodes

A couple of weeks ago, during spring break, we packed up the kids and headed to the geode beds out south of Dugway. We were originally headed to Topaz Mountain, but decided to go to the geode beds for the sake of time. I don't know if it would have been a whole lot longer. So we headed west and drove and drove and drove and drove. The whole time we were wondering if we were even going the right way since we only had vague directions. We really HOPED we were driving on the right dirt road in the middle of nowhere. Turns out I navigated pretty well and we finally arrived at the geode beds. It was incredible. The guy who has the mining claim on the area digs giant holes with a backhoe and picks out tons of huge geodes. He must be incredibly nice because he lets the public scrounge around for what ever they can find. We spent about an hour and a half there and brought home two overflowing buckets. Clay kept yelling, "Quartz, I found more quartz!" - no matter what he found. Tucker read to us out of his rock guide the whole way out, and Luka found a puddle at the site and spent the entire time splashing and getting wet. We had a really good time. Want a geode? Let me know, we still have tons!