Everett and Becki made it back after lunch and started finding their own geodes. This was Becki's very first rockhounding trip but she took to it like a natural. Under the patient guidance of Everett, she'll soon join the ranks with my Chrissy as a force to be reckoned with in the field. You've got to respect a lady holding a rock hammer - or else. Just ask Everett shown here on the right pleading for forgiveness for another of his many transgressions . . . Opal wasn't having anything to do with this one . . .

Everett took over for Chrissy on the working end of the geode splitter and we cracked a whole bunch of geodes.

One of the minerals that we found inside several geodes that Chrissy collected and that got Everett particularly excited was capillary pyrite. Apparently, these tiny needles of pyrite are relatively rare so finding them in several geodes on our first visit to this site was a great stroke of luck. Chrissy did it again! The pictures to the right, left and below show some of the capillary pyrite that we found.