Tucson Mountain

 

We phoned the campsite in Tucson Mountain Park to see if they had any non-reserved campsites available and they told us 10 sites were opening up Sunday morning but we had to be there by 8:45 am to get on the waiting list.  So we gassed up, dumped and hitched up Saturday night but still we had to get up at 5 in the morning to make the deadline. 

It rained and blew all night and we left in the dark and rain the next morning.  As we approached Tucson we saw this:

Snow on the Tucson Mountains. This is not what we were looking for when we came down here!

 We arrived at the campground at 8:30 am to find ourselves 6th in line.  We had to wait till 10 am for our site to vacate. 

Here are some of the birds that greeted us on our first day in the Tucson area:

Mourning dove

Black-tailed Gnatcatcher

Rufous-winged Sparrow