Selenite Crystal Digging

The name, Salt Plains, is derived from the thin layer of salt that covers the flats. This salt was used by Native American tribes and early pioneers who first settled the area. The plains are 7 miles in length and approximately 3 miles wide and lie within the boundaries of the Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge.

They have the driving area marked off out to the dig area.

There are miles and miles of dig area, but the park service only lets you dig in certain areas each year so more will grow where they dug last year.

See the holes where people have dug already this year

Here is my family getting a hole dug.

My grandkids are busy digging in their holes. You can see that they must not pass the fence line.

Can you see the crystal, it's dirty and the same color as dirt almost, see it in the shadow.

My grandson is holding his crystal, see the sideways hour glass, ( it almost looks like he has a mustache). We told him to get that t-shirt back on, Right NOW!

Here is their box of crystals that we will take home and clean up. No one found a cluster. They are very, very fragile and break very easily.

This was a hole from an earlier dig already filling up and covering over with salt.
The rules say don't fill in the hole as birds, in the bird sanctuary, will lay their eggs in the dirt pile.