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The Yellow Cat Flat has a region known as the “Poison Strip”. It is so named due to the massive amounts of selenium and radioactive minerals that are found there. Always on the look out for new stock for RadioactiveMinerals.com, we spent the day exploring the area. These mines were closed in the 60’s, once regualtions changed, and demand for uranium declined.

Most of the mines were gone without a trace, but the one we found was completely closed up, and the minerals in the dumps has long since decompossed, leaving nothing behind but bright yellow powder, and some super freaky selenium filled pools that for some reason people were collecting water from.

However we did find some more agate.

After a rather uneventful day, we decided to drive to Moab to camp for the evening.

Camal Spider

12 miles outside of town, right after the rest area, is the classic roadside attrtaction, “Hole N the Rock”.

Also at the rest area, is a rock that looks like a guinea pig. (from the right angle)

The town of Moab is quite the vaction spot for people who like camping, hiking and outdoors activities. Just north of town is the entrance to Arches National Park.

Although you might have never actually heard of Arches National Park, you have certainly seen pictures of some of the famous geological formations within its boundries.

These famous natural sandstone arches are created be wind and water erosion.

I had always wanted to go there, and since we had the time, we decided that we would go for a couple a hours before we filmed the remaining locations for the “Moab Vdieo”.

Since we do so much hiking every day, we decided to only walk the trails around the windows.

We were finished in the park by about 3pm, so we still had penty of time to film two more locations before calling it a day. The first location of was for agates at DuBinky Well.

The 2nd location was for calcite on Klondike Bluffs Road, outside the back of the National Park, on BLM land.

Then it was off to Green River for a $40 hotel room! Good thing too, I hadn’t had a shower in days.