Rock Hound Adventure Club

[Alex]

Am I the only one seeing completely empty spoiler boxes (except for the last one which has text but no picture)?

[MouseWife]

I see wonderful pictures.

I watch some show on the Travel Chanel about finding treasure.

On the coast, there is a place called 'Jade Cove' and you can actually climb down the cliffs to a beach where you can find jade. It doesn't look like an easy climb nor can you take more than you can carry but it does look interesting.....

http://www.hikinginbigsur.com/hikes_jadecove.html

http://www.campone.com/

It seems the first link gives guidelines about what you can and can't take and.....we missed the turn off last time we were on the coast but we do intend to go someday....

[blueerica]

Originally Posted by Alex

Am I the only one seeing completely empty spoiler boxes (except for the last one which has text but no picture)?

Hrmm... I am seeing all of them on a different computer. If anyone else is having this problem, I can give some linkages. They were posted on photobucket first....

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

But, did you find any gems?

Yes. We'll be cleaning some of it up this weekend.

As it turns out, it takes a bit of doing it before you get the hang of it. As of the time I took that pic of J looking at a specimen, we still really weren't sure what we were doing. In fact, it was only at the end that we had a full grasp of it, but by then we were exhausted.

A few hours into it, I realized I was tossing items that were actually a kind of opal that's brownish. I didn't realize that to get some of the fire out, you need to soak it a bit... yikes! I did, oddly enough, find a pretty good sized milky rose-colored stone in some old tailings from who knows when that had been pushed off to the side. I can't wait to get some shine on it, to see what I really have with some of the stones. I got mostly pinks, taupes, a little white, and I think a green specimen (which I'll determine whether or not it's opal after we clean it up).

We'll definitely be going again.

[blueerica]

Originally Posted by MouseWife

I see wonderful pictures.

I watch some show on the Travel Chanel about finding treasure.

On the coast, there is a place called 'Jade Cove' and you can actually climb down the cliffs to a beach where you can find jade. It doesn't look like an easy climb nor can you take more than you can carry but it does look interesting.....

http://www.hikinginbigsur.com/hikes_jadecove.html

http://www.campone.com/

It seems the first link gives guidelines about what you can and can't take and.....we missed the turn off last time we were on the coast but we do intend to go someday....

I think we're talking about the same show... Cash and Treasures. We found out about the opals on that show and have been jonesing to go for the past year and a half because of it. Hopefully we'll get to do some of the others. Maybe we'll even have to hook up with our Aussies and do some hunting down undah!

[Snowflake]

Totally cool! Please do post pics of your cleaned up finds. Opal is my birthstone and I love em!

Count me amongst the group wanting to do this. I also saw the same show on the Travel channel (tourmaline mines near San Diego) and I was itching to get some knee pads on and start digging.