There And Back Again : Hauser Geode Beds And California BEES!

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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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I enjoy metal detecting for historical items like gold coins, relics, silver coins, and other buried treasures. I also metal detect for gold and silver nuggets and even meteorites. I like to make videos that promote my choice of lifestyle that includes outdoor adventure,
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@LarryFish3rman 2 года назад

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.

@maggiesfarm7970 2 года назад

I'm alone this holiday season too. It's very sad. Chigg's videos help.

@Justfollowthecrumbs 2 года назад

I shall be on my own also, RU-vid 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!’

@halbud 2 года назад

@@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 !!

@TWOhype23 2 года назад

@@halbud OG fan right here!!

@MrKmoconne 2 года назад

Chigg is never alone. He always has Ricky following him. (gollum)

@drewg8710 2 года назад

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.

@janblake9468 2 года назад

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.

@aquachigger 2 года назад

Geodes and bees, what's more to want! I hope you enjoy the video. Special thanks to all of my supporters over on Patreon! Follow Chigg’s Army! My Patreon: www.patreon.com/aquachigger Instagram: instagram.com/aquachigger/ Facebook: facebook.com/chiggsarmy/ Twitter: twitter.com/BeauOuimette T-Shirts: www.bonfire.com/store/aquachigger/

@headrot2443 2 года назад

(Gold)

@enricoheib3240 2 года назад

your a cool guy. always take care god bless you

@MrThenry1988 2 года назад

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.

@hikerx9366 2 года назад

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.

@rodwood1962 2 года назад

I love how the critters always follow you around! Must be your magnetic personality!😂❤️

@wanderwoman5558 2 года назад

As a surface hunter.....I felt the agony of dig...dig...dig. A labor of love for your Lady....lol.

@reedsartofadventure 2 года назад

My grandpa use to take me and my cousins out there to that exact place when I was a kid.

@brucewestoby 2 года назад

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 !

@robweldmiller9181 2 года назад

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

@enricoheib3240 2 года назад

saying hello from Germany. now that i watched this Video i want to go hike now 😄

@jackiewheeler2090 2 года назад

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. 💖

@kathybrandt6060 2 года назад

Hello I hope you found lots of geodes. The sunset was beautiful it’s amazing how well God can paint.

@onemanswrld 2 года назад

Where do you get that stamina? I get exhausted just watching you.....

@Nova350 2 года назад

Those bees sure like you Chigg your a regular bee magnet stay safe have a great holiday

@joshredding9588 2 года назад

beautiful sunset Chigg! beeeeeeeeeezzzzzssssss!!!!! lol

@chadbaker712 2 года назад

Beautiful sunset...

@davidfish591 2 года назад

WOW! Cool sunset. Another great video. Thanks Mate!

@aliensphyncter9528 2 года назад

One of my favorite channels

@neillh 2 года назад

Thanks for a Rocking good time 👍

@arrowstacy11 2 года назад

Thanks for all the vids! I’m enjoying your trip. Thanks for sharing

@dustdevl1043 2 года назад

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.

@jkaz7509 2 года назад

I’m so entertained by Chigg.. Better than TV watching him!!

@randlerichardson5826 2 года назад

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 🙏

@TomFromMN 9 месяцев назад

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!

@aquachigger 9 месяцев назад

Thanks again for your support. Every donation helps and it all goes to my video fund for gas and supplies.

@amyhatfield5389 2 года назад

"Up and downy" has to be a true geology/geography term! Haha. Love Chigg@

@rondathiesen9317 2 года назад

Thanks Chigg for sharing your adventures! Have a Blest Christmas and Happy New Year!🎄👍🎅🙏😂😘😘

@rogerdempsey7227 2 года назад

Great adventure chigger stay blessed and safe 👍🙏

@2coixos 2 года назад

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.

@chasebodin4188 2 года назад

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!!!!!

@neomatrix2998 2 года назад

I love the outro music, I catch myself singing it sometimes.

@budrohammbone2806 2 года назад

Good Vid Chigg.

@victorcampa5397 2 года назад

Your poor pickup won’t ever be the same. I’ve been there. Was stationed in 29 palms. Love watching your desert videos man.

@nathanquantz2818 2 года назад

Southern Indiana has a ton of geodes. Find them in almost every creek

@travisc6226 2 года назад

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!

@JChuckVlogs 2 года назад

I love your work. Excellent footage.

@asurfer7741 2 года назад

Amazing vid thank you for the adventure!

@nicholasmaddalena1451 2 года назад

NOBODY NOTICED CHIGG JUST QUOTED LORD OF THE RINGS. THERE AND BACK AGAIN A HOBBIT'S TALE!!! MADE MY HEART TICKLE! BILBO BAGGINZEZ!

@Beartracks51 2 года назад

Shout out from Navajo county Arizona Thumper says.. Be safe out ther Mr Chiggler.

@tinichiatowner1241 2 года назад

That is a beautiful place.

@stmarysvirus5139 2 года назад

Remember when you used to metal detect? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

@josephlwallssr6166 2 года назад

If , it ain't the beavers, its the bees! Be careful, Chigg!🤔👍

@driftlesshermit9731 2 года назад

The bee's look hungry. Hopefully they'll find something flowering. Bee well.

@MikeHere 2 года назад

Thanks Chigg

@dianeburnejko2908 2 года назад

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.👍

@centauri9458 2 года назад

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.

@turnerg 2 года назад

The paleo pick is 1000% worth the investment for digging thundereggs

@mattbrown692 2 года назад

Beautiful sunset! Thank you for sharing your adventures with all of us!

@judizzstuff 2 года назад

I used to go there often as a kid back then it wasn't picked over . There is opals in that area too.

@randlerichardson5826 2 года назад

Hey Chigg it’s nice out there

@desbelfastireland9982 2 года назад

THANK YOU DES CREAN,,, BELFAST,, IRELAND

@TomFromMN 9 месяцев назад

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.

@aquachigger 9 месяцев назад

I like bees.

@TomFromMN 9 месяцев назад

@@aquachigger They obviously like you! Now, about the rest of us.

@brianjohnston413 2 года назад

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.

@lisauptagrafft2010 2 года назад

Guess that “dry heat” is hot after all! 😂 ✌🏼❤️

@treychiri1607 2 года назад

You should come to boring old Iowa and collect some geodes! They are very pretty and easy to spot in creek beds.

@aserta 2 года назад

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.

@pappysproductions 2 года назад

we're not going to talk about the girlish shriek 🐝 at 14:23 ? should ve had that in your intro. you're awesome.

@sdavis7916 2 года назад

WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOO keep on posting the great videos Chigg!

@jinglebell61 2 года назад

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!

@dougalexander7204 2 года назад

When the wobbly kitten was asked what poppa Chigg digs? She said, “why, any little old thing.”

@craigstorer6571 2 года назад

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 :)

@loriward5512 2 года назад

Entertaining & learn something new every video

@OldButStillKicking 10 месяцев назад

It's always a bit heart warming when you tell us "Lindsay likes" something. Not many other RU-vidrs I've watched that would have the thought even cross their mind.

@You-qt5dw 2 года назад

Hello :D love your videos! Any plans on doing any bottle searching videos soon? those are my favorite.

@jerrydempsey3490 2 года назад

Ford should be paying you a fee for demonstrating how rugged their trucks are. 😁

@hollymaffia7352 2 года назад

Bees are freaking me out Beau!

@dfalstaff1 2 года назад

There's an opal mine within 10 miles of there.

@debrabrooks6138 2 года назад

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!

@joebutler 2 года назад

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

@johnnyphillips9735 2 года назад

Thanks for sharing mr chigg

@Robert_rocks 2 года назад

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

@davidweston8767 2 года назад

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! 👍🐻

@silver_salvage_savage 2 года назад

Your videos are giving me the wanderlust! Keep em coming bud!

@rubyredlopez4 2 года назад

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

@dyannejohnson6184 2 года назад

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

@kevinroberts1888 2 года назад

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.

@W1se0ldg33zer 2 года назад

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'.

@oldbamadirt2148 2 года назад

The Bee's Just Like To Ride In A FORD Truck Because It's Sweet. May Just Be Me LOL.

@israelmendoza1434 2 года назад

What a city boy you are.

@x6XDuckyX9x 2 года назад

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.

@charlesdunham3745 2 года назад

Awesome channel!!

@steveanderson5888 2 года назад

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

@geraldcampbell6834 2 года назад

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 RU-vid videos that show how to use this tool to crack open geodes real easy

@nefariumxxx 2 года назад

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.

@monkeybarmonkeyman 2 года назад

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. 🙂

@Nathangies 2 года назад

It’s December and the suns angle cooks the whole side of your body

@scarri79n72 2 года назад

It's hard to dig but you have to get down to the green layer

@hardyakka6200 2 года назад

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.

@ericromero9708 2 года назад

Whoever finds the king cake baby in your piece of cake...buys the next king cake😁

@rickyb2200 2 года назад

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.