Logan and me decided to spend Labor Day out on the salt flats here in Oklahoma digging for Crystals! We were not disappointed! Sure it was hot but we had a ton of fun!
This was our second time here but our first time actually digging for the crystals. At first we were not sure what to look for, so we found a undisturbed spot and started looking! I got in the dirt first and didn't find anything right off. So Logan came to help and stared a new hole about a foot away and in the first scoop found several! That's why I like to keep him around!
I had done some research before coming and learned that the crystals form in just the first few inches down. This seemed to be right, as we found most of ours just about 4 inches down. This made them super easy to find because you didn't have to dig a lot to get to them! I also learned that this is the only place in the world that these crystals grow in this color because of the minerals in the dirt around them! It is also the only place where they have a distinct brown hourglass shape inside.
The only shade available is what you bring with you so it gets pretty hot! After Logan was done digging, he sat under my umbrella (feeling so pretty) and moved his chair over to where I was still digging to I could sit in his shade! We are a good team!
The biggest one we found was about an inch and a half! Several times I found I could just dig with my hands and feel them all over. Most are about the size of your thumb nail. We ended up not bringing home the small ones because there were so many and "threw" them back to keep growing. When I got home, I counted that we had just over 200! Below you can see some of the amazing shapes that they grow into!
