All of us volunteers and a few of the employees for the Imperial, Kofa and Cibola Refuges got to go on a jet boat tour up the river through the refuge boundaries. The jet boat held 30 people comfortably. The picture doesn't do it justice -- makes it look small. The driver stands in the back and steers and narates all along the way. The boat only needs about 4 inches of water so it has no problem on the river -- getting around sandbars and it can get in very tight places for its size.
We stopped along the way at an old miners cabin. We also stopped and saw petroglyghs and the site where an old town called Norton's Landing was located along the river. This is where paddlewheelers used to stop. Our last stop and as far north as we went was Draper's cabin (see picture). This cabin was on an old ranch site.
The river was beautiful -- it is still odd to see palm trees growing by a river but thats the southwest. The Yuma jet boat tours are really a neat thing to do if your ever in the area but be prepared- its on the spendy side. They say that the tourists subsidize all the school children class groups they take up the river.
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