Our hiking club had a picnic to celebrate our last hike. We went out to Baker's Tank. Tanks out here in the desert are just places where water can collect from rain, runoff and maybe small springs -- usually in washes that have a deep spot in them. Baker's Tank area is on the military range and has a picinic shelter where you can have a fire if you want. We all brought food, tables, chairs and sat out in the desert and had a good time.
Our rock club had a picnic as our last hurrah -- two days after our hiking club picnic. It was out in the desert on the California side. Again everyone brought food, tables, chairs, etc and ate and had a good time. This time we didn't have a picinic shelter -- just set up down in a wash out of the wind and proceeded to grill burgers and eat. Jim went out looking for rocks towards the base of some mountains while we were out there. He came across a white lizard about a foot long and his first encounter with a rattle snake. We have now have heard of several other encounters with snakes so we are glad to be done hiking and rockhounding in the desert.
We also saw this weird circle of rock and pile of white quartz out in the middle of nowhere -- no signs to explain what it was.
It's been very warm here the last several days -- in the 80's and we've had to breakdown and turn the air conditioning on - -- as I write this it's dark out -- 7:30 at night and still 75 degrees outside WOW. I don't think we have had it as warm and sunny during the past few summers as we've enjoyed this past winter in Yuma.
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