 Hello and welcome to the Rugged Rockhound. Today I'm actually again at the Nephi Palmwood. I wasn't really planning on coming here again this year but Doug out here, he's never found a piece of the palm wood out here so we're gonna see if we can't find a palm piece for him today. So because those are harder to find usually when you come out here you find the oak wood which I've got lots of and I would like more palm wood so we'll see if we can find some more of that. So here we go. You found something? Some nice agate jaspers. Just with nice color they got the reds and stuff. Here's one. So Tim just found some jaspers. I want to take a closer look at this one. Okay that one's just kind of an okay jasper so probably don't keep that one but this one looked a little nicer. This had some agate I think. Yeah I like the color in that one. So Tim found this. See how it's got a nice color in it? It's a thin band in there but it's a nice color. So now if we can find some wood with that color. Here's my first piece of petrified wood for the day. Not very good. Yeah that's not a very good piece but at least it's a piece. Tim said he just found a little piece of palm wood. There it is. You can see the little pores in it. Well done Tim. First piece of palm. Oh there's a piece of wood right there. Yep. Is that palm? That's what I was looking at next. Nope that's not palm. Oh wait no it is. It's got the pores in it. Yeah. So Tim's found a spot where we've got a few pieces of palm. You want to come over here Doug? Yeah. Here's this piece of palm wood cleaned off. Look at that. Very nice. I have another little piece of wood right here. Nice. Not sure if that's palm. It looks like oak. That one's probably a piece of the oak wood. A tiny little shard right there. Once again oak. Here's this piece of wood cleaned off. Too bad. Doug here's found his first good piece of wood. Some nice oak wood. I like how it's dark in the middle and white on the outside. But he's hoping for the palm. Still it's a cool piece. Thanks. Okay we were walking back. Doug's up here and I think I just found a big piece of oak wood. Small here and a big one there. Tim's grabbing the big one. Definitely oak. Look at that chunk. That's definitely wood. I'm going to say that's probably oak. Where's your spray bottle? Right in my pack. Can you grab that? Oh boy this is this. This is the second biggest piece I've ever found out here. Hopefully it's got some good color for the end. But probably is going to be similar to that last one. Kind of more black than white. The oak. Yeah. Yeah. I'm pretty sure it's oak. Wait a second. Oh my gosh this might be a chunk of palm. Oh if that is it's the biggest chunk of palm we've ever found. Dang we're going to get home. There we go. That's what I wanted to see. That is palm. That's palm wood. Palm wood. Confirmed. Take a look at that. You can see the holes going into it. What a find Tim. And that's down from where I thought we'd find any because I think most of it's up there. Oh man Tim. What do we do? Oh man well I'm taking a home. Well I know but like do we search here a little bit? What do we do? Tim I think we should search here a little bit. What do you think? And here is this piece cleaned off. The biggest piece of palm wood I've ever found and this is a smaller piece that I found next to it. And Tim found an even smaller piece a little further off from it. But let's take a look at the main one really quick. Look at this. You can definitely see the pores in it for the palm. It's called xylem. These large circles is where it used to draw water when it was a tree instead of a rock. You can see it kind of all going through that. It's got a fracture here so I'm going to have to try and glue that or stabilize it somehow. Here's the bottom of it. It looks like it might have been part of the root system but it is awesome. Like I said largest piece of palm wood I have ever found personally. So this is that area we found that opal wood the other time and I found this nice little piece of it right here. It's not opal just kind of yeah I don't know if I care about them that much. I think is this a piece of wood? Oh it might be. I just dropped the other one. Is that another piece of wood? It is. I think you're all pieces of the same thing. It's got the same color. Yeah. There's a few pieces of wood then. This is where we're finding all those opal shards too so yeah. Here's this piece of wood cleaned off. It's a nice color right there. I'm going to get this stuff off. It's like a calcite. So it was right in here somewhere. I think it was right there actually. Right here. Look where that empty spot is. So I found this piece right here of looks like opalized wood. I can see some texture in there. This is definitely opal. Looks like we're getting some opalized wood in this area too. Here's this piece of wood cleaned off. It's actually opalized with agate. Well done Doug. You found a big piece of wood here in the tree area. The question is whether it's palm or oak. I can't tell from the outside and the ends are crusty. You got to see the center. That's where it's going to show you. It might be one I need to cut. I'm going to look at it really close. Let's see if we can see those pores in it. Usually I'll break a corner off, but I hate to break a corner off of a piece like this. It's really good. It almost looks like blue forest wood. It's not I know, but is that could possibly be palm? Possibly. One cut on my saw and it will try this. It's the biggest piece of wood I've found in EFI. It's a good piece of wood. That's a good size. Yeah, it is not palm. But I will cut it and then we'll be able to see the cross section. It's got some color in it. That's that's the oak. It's got definitely some color in it. It's definitely got color in it. But that's that's a good piece. I'm going to keep digging right where I'm at. But as far as I can tell it looks like the oak. Yeah. So Doug over there found another little piece in his area and then Tim continued my spot. I would I went to check another spot and sure enough. That's a nice piece too. A good piece right there. Oh you can see the you can see some of the circle of yeah that's the center of it right there. That's really cool. Definitely oak wood though. Yep. Good piece though. Here's this piece of wood cleaned off. This piece that Tim found was absolutely beautiful. You can see the rings right there. It's a nice piece. I'm not sure how well you're seeing the colors. Lighting isn't the best right now. Sorry I have the macro lens on. So that's the area where we dig normally is over there. I decided to hike all the way over here doing some more exploration. Got this unit here. Look what I found in it. Kind of like a little geotype thing. Hmm. Here's this piece of wood cleaned off. Got the pattern on it. Here's this piece of wood cleaned off. Nice. And that's it for today's episode. Hope you enjoyed. It was exciting finding my largest piece of palm wood I've ever found out here and it's the second largest piece period that I've found out here. What a great day. You've seen it all washed off. I haven't yet. It's probably going to be amazing and I don't know if I'll get back out here. This might be my last trip. I've got lots of stuff from here. It is kind of hard to find. You spend a lot of time searching and I want to go explore new areas. So until next time, remember there is treasure everywhere.