GEODE FEST
(Geode Fest is a registered trademark of Worthen Earth Searchers Rock Club)



8th Annual Geode Fest
*September 28-29-30, 2012*
Chaney Creek Boat Access
HWY 96 North, Hamilton, IL




Form 1: Coming in April, 2012
Form 2: Coming in April, 2012
Form 3: Coming in April, 2012
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"It's a Wrap"

We celebrated our 7th Annual Geode Fest this year, 2011, in Hamilton, IL and it was another great event. This was our largest crowd yet, with nearly 700 participants. Hundreds of 5-gallon bucket of geodes were collected from the Tri-State area. The states of Illinois and Missouri are now a few tons lighter after all the geodes that were collected found new homes across the country. The geodes ranged in size from BB size up to 450+ POUNDS. There were 6 over 200 pounds, I have never seen so many geodes this large collected at one time, or at one event. Thank you to the Fox River. The geode hunters came in from across the country. Pictures express a thousand words so I'll be posting pictures from Geode Fest '11 as they arrive. If you have some digital pictures you'd like to add, please send them to EMAIL and I'll add them to this page for all to enjoy.

 

AWARDS 

Categories:  Largest Geode, Oddest Shape Geode, Prettiest Geode, Rarest Geode, Smallest Geode, Ugliest Geode, "This Mud's for You", and a Kids 12 and under division with the same categories.

FRIDAY:

Geode Fest Geode Fest - Chaney Creek Geode Fest - Fox River Geode Fest - 211 lb. Geode Fest - Big Poppy Geode Fest - Skylight Geode Fest - Almost Open Geode Fest - Ta Da! Geode Fest - Kid 1 Geode Fest - Kid 2 Geode Fest - Kid 3 Geode Fest - Kid 4 Geode Fest - Kid 5 Geode Fest - Kid 6 Geode Fest - Kid 7 Geode Fest - Kid 8 Geode Fest - All Kids Friday

Geode Fest - Big Kid 1 Geode Fest - Big Kid 2 Geode Fest - Big Kid 3 Geode Fest - Big Kid 4 Geode Fest - Big Kid 5 Geode Fest - Big Kids 6 Geode Fest - Big Kid 7 Geode Fest - All Big Kids

Saturday:

Geode Fest - Day 2 Geode Fest - Day 2 crowd Geode Fest - Day 2 cracking Geode Fest - I found one Geode Fest - Geodes in matrix Geode Fest - matrix close up Geode Fest - Day 2 Harvest more coming this week 

Sunday:

 Pictures coming this month of December.  

 

 

More Pictures

Digging - 1 Digging - 2 Happy Kid - 1 Happy Kid - 2 Happy Kids - 3 Happy Kid - 4 Happy Kid - 6 Happy Kid - 7 Happy Man - 1 Happy Couple - 1

 

 

  Many more pictures coming as they arrive . . .

 

Send your digital photos to: Email Me

 

Thank you.