25th Annual Rockhound Roundup - Day Two

Today on this second and final day of the 25th Annual Rockhound Roundup hosted by the Santa Lucia Rockhounds, I found myself feeling like focusing on our competitive display cases and our guest speaker Richard Wade who talked about dinosaurs to the enthrallment of young children and adult children alike.
Note: check out Day One of this show as well as my personal haul from the show HERE.

Santa Lucia Rockhound Galen Moyer (thundereggs from around the world)

Santa Lucia Rockhound Galen Moyer (thundereggs from around the world)

Santa Lucia Rockhound Mary Caperone

Santa Lucia Rockhound Junior Rockhounds' "My Favorite Rock."

Santa Lucia Junior Rockhound Eva Rodriguez

Santa Lucia Rockhound rock mafia dons Don Harrington and Don Pierce.

Cindy Chambers' "My Favorite Things."

Orcutt Mineral Society's Donn & Sylvia Nasholm self-made jewelry.

Santa Lucia Rockhound Barbara Bilyeu (petrified dinosaur bone)

Santa Lucia Rockhound Nick Sherwin

Dale Harwood

Dianne Brooke "Mermaid Treasures."

Orcutt Mineral Society's Wes Lingerfelt "Top Notch Digs."

Orcutt Mineral Society's Jeannie Lingerfelt self-made jewelry

Santa Lucia Rockhound & Orcutt Mineral Society's Wayne Mills mostly self-made soapstone repro artifacts.

Chris Driesbach (biconoids)

Galen Moyer

Tom McGanty

Tom McGanty

Doug Moore

Doug Moore

Santa Lucia Rockhound David Nelson

Santa Lucia Rockhound David Nelson (biconoids)

Santa Lucia Rockhound Aaron Miller

Santa Lucia Rockhound Jim Mills "The Winner's Circle."

Gene Bilyeu

Santa Lucia Rockhound Barbara Bilyeu (various geodes and thundereggs)

Santa Lucia Rockhound Barbara Bilyeu (local biconoids) (my people's choice vote went to this one)

Santa Lucia Rockhounds Jason Martines and Barbara Bilyeu (local biconoids)

Santa Lucia Rockhounds Jason Martines and Barbara Bilyeu (local biconoids)

Santa Lucia Rockhounds Jason Martines and Barbara Bilyeu (local biconoids)

Not sure if these are club collection material or from a private collection but definitely are local material.

Richard Wade giving is crowd-rousing performance to the delight of the young and young at heart.

Each black dot in each square panel is the size of a period dot and there are one million of them here.
All photos by Kim Patrick Noyes (all rights reserved)