Our first day with no driving. We hiked out to the abandoned Victoria mine right from our campground. It was a 3 hour hike round-trip. We got a late start. It was the wrong time for birds but we did manage to see our first verdin. Bird of the Day! Plus gila woodpeckers, cactus wrens and phainopeplas.
Ruins of mine store with the parks namesake cactus in foreground
and had beautiful views of the surrounding mountains.
Connie was here!
On the way back we found hiking in the sun a bit too hot even though it was probably only about 25 C at the hottest. We're still acclimatizing! We spent the rest of the afternoon recuperating in the shade.
It's the last day of the President's Day weekend so all the younger people cleared out in the morning and only the snowbirds remain. We've met people from Maine, Campbell River, California, etc. Only problem is we can't tell them apart. We all look alike!
No sunset tonight but we have a hedgehog cactus in our campsite in the evening glow.
Whoop whoop - phainopeplas! Glad we refound your blog. Love reading out your stories to Ken and seeing the photos. Hope you’re enjoying the shade. Lots of love, Sue
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