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My friend, Iris, and I took a trip to the Black Rock Desert to hunt for opals.

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Black Rock desert

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Toccoy, Iris and me at the petrified wood monument.

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Jo's trailer near a warm spring.

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Sign for memorial petrified wood grove.

Iris and I drove through the Black Rock desert in Nevada to visit a friend who owns an opal mine.  Josephine lives about 45 miles of Gerlach, Nevada.  Here are some pictures of the trip.
  
  
 
 
 

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Iris and Jo.

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First time I ever saw a petrified wood 'zoo'.

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The spring, a constant supply of warm water.
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At the end of the day - a rainbow (outside of Reno)