There And Back Again : Hauser Geode Beds And California BEES!
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- Today we journey to the Hauser Geode Beds in hope of finding a decent spot to search for geodes. The road there was an uncertain path for most of the trip, but we eventually did find the main part of the geode beds. I do find some geodes, but the hunt is cut short because I get swarmed by some very thirsty honey bees. The desert there is in a drought and water is very hard to find for both man and beast. I have a separate video of just my bee encounter that I posted earlier on my channel. I did leave the bees a nice water hole of water that hopefully helped them out for a little while longer.
If you visit the beds, please be aware the bees are only thirsty (and possibly hungry for sugar water too) and won't sting you unless you hurt them. Maybe you can put out some water for them (away from your vehicle) and if you have any sugar water to give, I'm sure they would be much obliged.
Here is my Hauser Geode Bed Bee video in its entirety if you are interested: • The Bees Are Thirsty M...
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Thanks Chigg, been a lonely sad holiday season and somehow I feel I have a friend when watching you explore the beautiful desert. For these few minutes I'm not alone and that means a lot. Stay safe.
I'm alone this holiday season too. It's very sad. Chigg's videos help.
I shall be on my own also, CZcams has been like an open window to a world that I will never get to. It has helped me through the COVID craziness and Chigg’s often quirky and informative videos keep me sane ‘ish!’
@@maggiesfarm7970 HEY !, Iv'e been watching Chiggs videos for the last 7 yrs. and with as many people watching you are never alone! If you need a friend look me up sometime ,and keep the videos a comming Chigg !!
@@halbud OG fan right here!!
Chigg is never alone. He always has Ricky following him. (gollum)
Chigg, it’s crazy how much entertainment you provide as a one man show. And to release it all for free! Great stuff. Glad you got to have a great desert excursion.
I went to the Hauser geode beds a dozen times with pals in the 1990's to collect them. The beds cover an extensive area but the diggings are always in the hills. The volcanic ash bed with the most was softer than the one you were picking at. Pals collected buckets of small ones (2-3 inches across). The small geodes were always solid, no hollow center.. But cut into thin slabs, they are beautiful. I have a couple halves on my office desk. My best is a 9 incher with a hollow center.
Geodes and bees, what's more to want! I hope you enjoy the video.
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your a cool guy. always take care god bless you
Hammer drill and half inch bit a foot long might help loosen things up. And roll your windows up I reckon. Lol. Wow.
Good show.
You have to be one of the most positive guys online, your really have a way of making a person feel like their right there with their own pick and shovel. Thanks Beau for always taking the time and effort to put smiles on our faces as well.
I love how the critters always follow you around! Must be your magnetic personality!😂❤️
As a surface hunter.....I felt the agony of dig...dig...dig. A labor of love for your Lady....lol.
My grandpa use to take me and my cousins out there to that exact place when I was a kid.
Excursion to Corn Springs road off hi - way 10..followed the springs road to springs, then the road goes behind the Chocolate Mountains. Rocky with sand washes...goes too good area,all volcanic cones , blue, purple round rocks. Younger volcanic cones , some geodes have not " matured" to hollow crystal formation.... Best part is you do not have to dig. The geodes have been eroded off the bottom off the cones. Just pick up want you want. This is a good time of year to go there, can get to 115-120 F in the summer...! Good luck !
On your way to geo beds you passed an opal mine that's was closed you were in the area patton used for tank trauning some places there were tracks still visible from them in the mule mts area they say there are some left over mines and other ordinances there I believe it was a large area with different camps for different training we were in this area finding fire agates and next week we're looking for blue agates
saying hello from Germany. now that i watched this Video i want to go hike now 😄
I am from the UK, been living southern California for 40 + years. I never cared very much for the desert. You have opened my eyes to it's strange beauty. I'm to old now to go walking and climbing. I love watching your videos and I'm sorry I missed so much when I was fitter. Thank you for taking me along on your adventures. 💖
Hello I hope you found lots of geodes. The sunset was beautiful it’s amazing how well God can paint.
Where do you get that stamina? I get exhausted just watching you.....
Those bees sure like you Chigg your a regular bee magnet stay safe have a great holiday
beautiful sunset Chigg! beeeeeeeeeezzzzzssssss!!!!! lol
Beautiful sunset...
WOW! Cool sunset. Another great video. Thanks Mate!
One of my favorite channels
Thanks for a Rocking good time 👍
Thanks for all the vids! I’m enjoying your trip. Thanks for sharing
The creeks in southern Indiana are full of geodes. Folks in my hometown have even built stone walls out of them. The gate and corner posts are topped by the largest geodes, some as big as basketballs.
I’m so entertained by Chigg.. Better than TV watching him!!
Turn the AC on in your truck Chigg maybe the cold will run them out of your truck be safe Chigg and GOD BLESS y’all buddy Amen 🙏
Thanks! It's great that we can watch this for free. I just hope the small donations add up. I'd never admit what I'm actually willing to pay to watch your adventures! Even for reruns!
Thanks again for your support. Every donation helps and it all goes to my video fund for gas and supplies.
"Up and downy" has to be a true geology/geography term! Haha. Love Chigg@
Thanks Chigg for sharing your adventures! Have a Blest Christmas and Happy New Year!🎄👍🎅🙏😂😘😘
Great adventure chigger stay blessed and safe 👍🙏
i remember being lucky at searching for geodes on freshly plowed fields. You did not need to dig and farmers did not mind because they had less stones for their machines to deal with.
Hey Mr. Chigg! Great vid man, please keep it up!!
Also, I'm from Louisiana and where I live, when someone gets the baby inside the king cake, that means that they have to buy the next king cake, lol. Just thought that I'd share that bit of info.
Have a great day!!!!!
I love the outro music, I catch myself singing it sometimes.
Good Vid Chigg.
Your poor pickup won’t ever be the same. I’ve been there. Was stationed in 29 palms. Love watching your desert videos man.
Southern Indiana has a ton of geodes. Find them in almost every creek
My PFP is from the Hauser Beds, you gotta find a really rhyolite like flow on top of the green ash, like 11:10 in your video, the heavy rock above, you gotta get under it seems to have the good stuff. My family and Friends and I have been digging out there for years. And yes the bees out there are brutal, pour a little Sprite into a geode and leave it for them, that's what we've had to do to get away Glad you had a good time!
I love your work. Excellent footage.
Amazing vid thank you for the adventure!
NOBODY NOTICED CHIGG JUST QUOTED LORD OF THE RINGS.
THERE AND BACK AGAIN A HOBBIT'S TALE!!!
MADE MY HEART TICKLE! BILBO BAGGINZEZ!
Shout out from Navajo county Arizona
Thumper says.. Be safe out ther Mr Chiggler.
That is a beautiful place.
Remember when you used to metal detect? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
If , it ain't the beavers, its the bees! Be careful, Chigg!🤔👍
The bee's look hungry. Hopefully they'll find something flowering. Bee well.
Thanks Chigg
Digging for geodes is tough work in an already rough environment. Im so afraid you will break down out there in the middle of nowhere. Be safe Chigg. Thanks for showing me places I would never see on my own.👍
Chigg you need an Estwing Geo/Paleo Rock Pick or an Estwing 22oz rock pick. They will jabb into that ground and lever rocks also will bust the geodes open. I used my 22oz to pick out things in limestone boulders.
The paleo pick is 1000% worth the investment for digging thundereggs
Beautiful sunset! Thank you for sharing your adventures with all of us!
I used to go there often as a kid back then it wasn't picked over . There is opals in that area too.
Hey Chigg it’s nice out there
THANK YOU DES CREAN,,, BELFAST,, IRELAND
Just re-watched this one as I really do enjoy the desert. Reminds me of a time when I had daily access and I would either head to the mountains or the desert. Took a bad spill in the desert, hitting a rock that threw me from my bike. Learned it wasn't a good idea to go as far out as I did without anyone knowing where I had gone. I'm not always a fast learner😜. I've seen plenty of geodes, but this is the first time I've seen them in their native habitat. 😉Bees seem to follow you wherever you go! Thanks for sharing, Professor.
I like bees.
@@aquachigger They obviously like you! Now, about the rest of us.
Chigg, can you please do a video on the Church Hill tunnel in Richmond Va? Collapsed in 26 with 4 people and a steam train and ten cars still inside! I know your research would give us great insight and your viewers would love it.
Guess that “dry heat” is hot after all! 😂 ✌🏼❤️
You should come to boring old Iowa and collect some geodes! They are very pretty and easy to spot in creek beds.
The geode layer would be everywhere in that area, actually. It's just that in that specific spot where people dig, it's exposed to the surface. I mean, the entire zone was covered in ash at some point. Not gonna bet on it (sometimes it's pretty deep) but could've stopped at 2:20, dug a hole down and likely found it right smack in the middle of the road.
Figured this in Tunis, where there's an exposed vein where they were digging geodes by basically cutting the back of it, and going across the whole exposed face (something like ~10 meters or so). And you could see the entire laid ash undulating up and down, sometimes nearly peaking up top, sometimes dipping all the way down where the new floor was.
we're not going to talk about the girlish shriek 🐝 at 14:23 ?
should ve had that in your intro. you're awesome.
WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOO keep on posting the great videos Chigg!
Come to Illinois and Iowa the last weekend in September for the annual Geode Fest! Three days of hunting and you will have buckets full of geodes!
When the wobbly kitten was asked what poppa Chigg digs? She said, “why, any little old thing.”
Wow! I used to find Geodes in a entirely different environment than that. I found them in cracks of a solid limestone creek bed in Southwestern Ohio. It seemed that where cracks intersected each other was a good place to find them. It was as if certain minerals would get stuck in those areas and collect over many years (since the creation of the earth) and then build up to become a geode kind of the way a pearl is formed in an oyster. They are irreplaceable (once you find it and remove it from its crack in the limestone, another one doesn't grow back in its place). This horizontal bed of limestone was only covered with water part time. Water would run down its gentle slope very slowly and sometimes only where the cracks were. It is possible that there might be some I haven't found because they are under water. I don't know for sure what causes them, I was just guessing. I wish you could of been with me back in the 1970's when I found them. Your videos are fun to watch, but you didn't look like you were having a fun time. Lol :)
Entertaining & learn something new every video
It's always a bit heart warming when you tell us "Lindsay likes" something. Not many other CZcamsrs I've watched that would have the thought even cross their mind.
Hello :D love your videos! Any plans on doing any bottle searching videos soon? those are my favorite.
Ford should be paying you a fee for demonstrating how rugged their trucks are. 😁
Bees are freaking me out Beau!
There's an opal mine within 10 miles of there.
Watch out for those bees! Great video! I think a hand sledge and wedge would make getting the geodes better, the thunder eggs when cut in slices look way more beautiful then in raw state, least that's what I have found. I would look for stone out croppings and little cracks like what you were in to see the layers. I am wondering what part of Cali you are at? I had gone way out to Amboy crater and found some out that way years ago, but man what a long ride! I think they have some open mining in Blythe that allows people to go through their tailings, but that's probably too far north from you. Thanks for giving the bees some water, Bless you and stay hydrated and safe!
As a beekeeper I haul bees in my van if they get out of my catch box or whatever I turn the air all the way as cold as I can they will stay on the floor. they will still crawl but not fly
Thanks for sharing mr chigg
Be careful digging out there they change the regulations on the geode beds recently I do believe it’s 5 pounds or 15 pounds something like that so don’t get caught up taking too much so I’ve heard. love the videos keep on the grind
You might want to checkout Nightmare gulch by Red Rock Canyon, on BLM land! It is a gulch filled with mine trailings of all types. Be careful, many are razor sharp! Happy investigating! 👍🐻
Your videos are giving me the wanderlust! Keep em coming bud!
It's the same 🐝 s that are trailing you 👁️ 👄 👁️. Wouldn't that be crazy if it really was! Lol.
Thanks for the videos. Safe travels
There is a perimeter for those bees where they bump into you…they are telling you-your to close to the nest…the standard procedure is too turn right around retrace your steps ….I forget the perimeter . I son was working in the desert for a few years
Enjoyed the video. I know what you mean about the sun, I often go into the Arizona desert during the Autumn and winter to take landscape photography and even when it's cold out, the Southwestern sun can make you roasting pretty quick, if there's no shade.
You're right in the red part of maps that show where Africanized bees are. I'd say by the way they were swarming on you, specifically, is pretty aggressive. Deer flies are like that -- 'sweat bees'.
The Bee's Just Like To Ride In A FORD Truck Because It's Sweet. May Just Be Me LOL.
What a city boy you are.
Your more than welcome to pick me up and Ile tag along with ya places. We can go find cool stuff and get you some good content.
Awesome channel!!
Looks like you're having fun out there too bad there's no GEOS I live in the state of Washington and there are GEOS all over the place good ones bigger than a softball full of crystals
Hey chigg if you ever go back to the geode area bring along a soil pipe cutter you can use it to crack geodes in half its a tool that looks like an oversized bolt cutter with a chain on it! There are CZcams videos that show how to use this tool to crack open geodes real easy
I've still got a watermelon sized 40 lb kentucky geode which has a rattle when shaken. I want to get it cut cleanly in halves at a granite shop. One of these days. Took a hammer drill chisel bit plus the soil pipe cutter to bust open the previous big ones. Nice hollow with quartz inside but do need some aggressive cleaning of muddy rusty deposits inside.
Desert air doesn't have as much moisture, so I'm gonna suggest the sunlight is not as diffused at it would be back east in higher humidity conditions. At least, that was always my explanation. 🙂
It’s December and the suns angle cooks the whole side of your body
It's hard to dig but you have to get down to the green layer
May I suggest mate that when watering the bees place the dish AWAY from the car and keep your doors and windows shut Put some rocks in the water so they can get out if they topple in.
Whoever finds the king cake baby in your piece of cake...buys the next king cake😁
Hey Chigg next trip to the Desert mix you up a gallon milk jug with water and Sugar and pour it into a container away from your truck Honey Bees love Sugar water it's kind of like nectar to them. Maybe that will draw them away from the Chigg Rig.
The bees might be after the propane canister in your rig. . Bees and flies are both attracted to the smell of propane.
thanks for saying "adult beverages" specifically
I'm in Australia out in our dessert the soil is red
Might want to invest in a satellite phone, Chigg.
All your videos are enjoying
My wife is Mexican and at Christmas they have a loaf of bread with two or three little baby Jesus's in it.
I'll bet the Chiggmobile has
more than 300,000 miles on it.
Courage !!!
Too much bees « run for your life ». Fortunely rattlesnakes don’t have wings !!
best geodes at the rock and mineral shows Ha ha
I love thundereggs
I'm heading there in a few weeks for my birthday!
Bees love sweat.
I'm not the only one who noticed how hot the sun light actually is. I've worked outside my entire life and the sun light has gotten hotter.
You really need confidence in your vehicle way out there! Flat tire, breakdown... U in twuble!!