June 15, 2017

Today we traveled down to Delta to meet up with Perry and Steve. We went to a great rock shop in Delta where we met Bob. Bob had a German ammonite cluster I thought was amazing. Thanks to Bob it will be coming home with me. Next we attempted to find trilobites on our own. After a great adventure Leighton and Perry hunted for trilobites at U-Dig Fossils while Steve and I had a very hot hike on one of the nearby hills. It was more that nice sitting under a tree sharing some special time with Steve. Teresa your bother is as wonderful as you. Tomorrow we are heading for Topaz mountain. Should be another exciting day. I must admit one of my exciting finds today is the shoe tree. There is either one pair per person in the nearby town or a pair for every person who has moved on.

It turns out that if you want to look for interesting rocks and minerals in the west you have to go to the middle of nowhere.  As you can see below we were in the middle of nowhere.

We did find a Pronghorn that had an itch and was scratching its neck on the sagebrush.

There was also a salt flat but we were told it was to early to drive on it.  They said it needs time to completely dry out which happens in the August time frame but some people push their luck and try it now and end up having to get pulled out.

We took the advice and stayed off.

Other wild life we found was a Great Basin Collared Lizard.  Colorful and cute don’t you think?

I thought he was cute so I included a close-up so you could really see his smiling face.

Traveling down the road to the U-Dig It site we did see a group of wild horses just milling around.

The U-Dig It site was in the hills past the salt flats, horses, long, bumpy, dusty dirt roads but we did make it.

We did find some trilobites and below is an example of what we found.  To find them we had to split the shale rocks and hope to expose one or more.  It was hot work for Perry and me.  Donna and Steve sat under a shade tree for a while and then went to the shaded tables and waited.