LAZY BONES.
Day 142 – 32 degrees this morning, a few clouds, mostly sunny. Rob was up at sunrise, took a walk down into the canyon to the creek, and took some pictures. The girls do like it here now and have settled in. We sat outside in the morning sun as it warmed up. Most of the campers were leaving today.
WE JUST CAN’T MAKE UP OUR MINDS!
Day 141 – Beginning of Week 21. Rob was up at 6:15 a.m.; I got up at 6:45. 44 degrees and sunny, but a little haze. We didn’t want to hang out too long because we had the potential of a long drive ahead of us today. This was a really good campground, and the environment here was excellent for us to unwind. We really appreciated being so close to the NWR since we visited so many times. We hope to find more of the same.
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BIRDING 101, THE LIFE & TIMES OF A BIRDER.
Day 140 – Another beautiful, clear night – the sky full of stars. This place could grow on you. 6:30 a.m., sunny, 38 degrees. The girls were quite the group of rambunctious kitties, running from one end of the RV to the other, and dragging along the toys that Ron, Sophie, & Maple gave them. Wee Haw!
Day 139 – Okay, so I’m re-evaluating my initial opinions of the desert. I’m totally a tree-hugger & really had no desire to travel through or stay at desert sites, thinking they were just barren, flat, sandy places of no color other than shades of dry brown. Wrong. We paid the campground hosts for an additional 2 nights, and we may stay longer than that, who knows? (The same thing happened when I was dreading the so-called flat & boring middle States. Wrong again. Not all flat and certainly not all boring. The U.S.A. has so much diversity and variety to discover. Slap me silly next time I am Captain Bringdown saying I don’t want to go here or there!) We love it here.
ON THE WATER AGAIN!
Day 138 – Sunny and clear this morning at 6:45 a.m., 36 degrees. It warms up quickly here. It’s a fat old sun. We waited until it reached 60 degrees at 11 a.m. and headed out to go kayaking. We launched from Palo Verde County Park into the Oxbow Lake which is an off-shoot of the Colorado River, without the wind & tidal pull. It was wonderful. Although the wind was up to above 10 MPH, we had no problems. The long, narrow Lake was protected on both sides by tall reeds & grasses. They drew various ducks and Coots to the Lake & we had a great time kayaking near to them.
STALKING BIRDS AGAIN!
Day 137 – 38 degrees, beautiful sunny day, 6:45 a.m. We did some catching up on things, then packed a lunch of egg salad sandwiches & went to the Cibola National Wildlife Refuge. To get our bearings, we drove past the Refuge Headquarters and took the Levee Road all the way to the end at Cibola Lake. All dirt roads along the Colorado River or on dikes with canals on either side for irrigation. At one point, we stopped to take pictures of White Pelicans grouped together on a little island. There was a man there who was a Birder, too. He was from Montana. He and Rob proceeded to debate whether a specific bird, way far away, was a Yellowleg or a Willet: Rob looking through his camera lens, the gentleman looking through his binoculars. “Um, but look at the beak. No, he’s not the right color. I wish we could see the legs better.” And so on. I took a cute picture of the two of them. Then we left, and had our lunch at the end of the road.