Traveling Poor

We spent a week on the Idaho, Nevada border at a place called Rabbit Springs.  Jim read on the internet that it had great rock hunting for Apache tears, and thunder eggs.  We found plenty of both.  I think Jim filled an entire kitty litter bucket with thunder eggs.  Not sure what he plans for all of them.

The first day there I had Jim put out the awning as we had no shade and it was pretty hot.  About three hours after opening it there was a huge stray wind that blew through the area and before either of us could even get to the door the wind caught the awning, flipped it up and bent one the support polls. UGH!!  One section of the support slides inside another so with the one section bent it was impossible to close the awning.  After attempting to straighten the section of poll Jim ended up having to cut the inside section in half so we could get the darn awning closed up.

Besides looking for rocks we spent some time running around the country side in the jeep.  One day we drove over to a Salmon Falls Creek Reservoir which according to the map is huge. Well it is huge, but there was not a drop of water in site.  We did have a good time driving for miles along the lake bed and checking out the rock cliffs that surround the nonexistent lake.

 

View of cliff from the lake bed

 While driving across the lake bed we even ran into a herd of cattle around the corner you can see in front of us.

We pried up some layers of this rock hoping to find some fossils, but no such luck.

 



This is a section that had apparently fell from higher up the cliff.