Yesterday John and I were headed off to the Idaho Oregon boarder thats right we were Succor Creek Oregon bound. For those of you not familiar with Succor Creek Oregon it is about 30 miles south of Nyssa Oregon off of highway 201. The road is gravel but easy for 99.9% of all vehicles. Succor Creek is a Oregon state park with 19 primitive camp sites and a outhouse not much else, you must pack in your own water. Please remember that if you travel in to the desert bring water and lots of it.
 
 
Well back to the report. John and I were out on the road at 7:30 and we were going to be taking the back way in to Succor Creek. John had a few other sites that we were going to stop at for some Petrified Wood.
 
 
 
 

Well John and I arrived at our first stop at 9:00 which was up I don’t know creek. We roamed the hills around this area for about a hour and a half with a few pieces of petrified wood found between the two of us. So we decided to pack it up and head down the road to our next stop. On the way out of I don’t know creek we did see a Antelope and a lone rock hound about a mile down from where we were at.
 
 
As we were driving down the road we found a dry stream bed that looked very promising and since there is a lot of stuff in this area we of course like all rock hound stopped. Within the first few minutes in the stream bed we found a few pieces of Jasper, Petrified Wood. I found a very interesting piece of Agate it was swirled with clear, milky and Root Beer colored agate one of the best pieces found all year for me.
 
 
By now it is pushing noon and John and I were eager to get some Oregon Thundereggs so off to Succor Creek Park. As we started to enter the park area for those that have never been to Succor Creek Oregon you come in on top of this beautiful canyon. Remember to bring a camera as you will take lots of pictures of this place. John and I stopped at the top and took a few pictures before descending down the canyon to Succor Creek Park.
 
 
Once we made it to the park it was definitely lunch time. We ate lunch and did a little people watching. There were probably about 25 to 30 people at the park that day. By 1:00 John and I were packed up and headed out for my Holy Grail that right Thundereggs I love any type of nodule or crystal that I can find. As we were headed to the dig site we were approached by a group of people that were interested in what we were doing with buckets, picks, and shovels. We told them that there are Thunder Eggs in the hill and that we are rockhound. I think they were surprised that people will go in the middle of nowhere and do what we do.
 
 
After talking to the group we had a 10 minute hike to the Thunder Eggs. Upon arriving we noticed that there were some more fellow rockhounds up the hill from us pounding away. See we are not the only crazy ones out here. John and I did some surface collecting as there seemed to be plenty of Thundereggs laying around and even more broken ones. After about 45 minutes of collecting the two other rock hounds up the hill came down and introduced themselves to John and I. There names were John and Steve and they are in the Idaho Gem Club in Boise. They gave us a little information that I will pass on. If you are at Grave Yard Point do not take the road into Succor Creek you will not be able to cross the river just passing this on as the maps say you can. Another piece of information to pass on the snakes are starting to come out. While John and I were out on the hill side in Succor Creek we came across a 3 foot Bull snake if there out the rattle snakes are also out.
 
 
John and I decided to call it a day and head home. We arrived at John’s house at around 5:00 and he was nice enough to let me cut a few of my Thunder Eggs that I had collected. All of the Thunderegg pictures in this post were collected yesterday. Hope you enjoy!