We went with our hiking group to Mitry Lake. It's a small lake created by a small dam on the Colorado river. I took the picture of it from up on top of a giant hill that we climbed as part of our "hike." At certain times it felt like we were following mountain goat trails up and down the hills. We saw the Wellton Canal -- you can see where the water goes under the mountain. This is the water that goes to the town of Wellton (where we live).
I also took a picture of these green globs hanging in this tree. The globs are live mistletoe. They actually hurt the tree they are attached to so its good they cut them out and sell them for Christmas kisses.
We also went on an outing with our rockhounding group. We were allowed to go on a special part of the Barry Goldwater Restricted Military Area. This area is always off limits to nonmilitary personnel even with valid permits. It was great to go to an area that still had a lot of pretty rock
to pick. We got lots of jasper.
The Yuma area is filling up with RV'ers -- the RV parks are almost full up and there are thousands of spaces. We are very glad to be outside of Yuma and away from most of the RV crowd.
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