Thursday, March 17, 2011

Happy St. Patrick’s Day…

Another green day has come and almost gone… lots of people in this area were dressed for the day.

We started off by meeting up with our group and we headed south to Lake Havasu State Park for a bit of a hike on what is known as “Sarah’s Mountain Crack Trail”  It was a great day (again…) for a hike so off we went.  Very nice hiking area…

P3171630

Some lovely mountains loomed in the background… no we did not climb them…

DSCN8356

Angela and David were all primed up for it…

P3171622

It was only about a mile back to where the canyon started…

P3171634

Judy found this hole/cave in the mountain, and we couldn’t find the bottom?????

P3171636

There are a lot of these natural bridges back here…

P3171640

Erosion has done a lot of work also in this canyon as evidenced by this cave…

P3171641

This trail brought back memories of when I did a similar hike with Rick and Jeanette back when we were at Desert Hot Springs…

P3171645

I was the first down in, and Angela and Judy were soon to follow… David could not do this part due to recent surgery on his arm…

P3171646

This is a real neat canyon hike…

P3171647

We got to the very bottom of the canyon, and hit water… it was about 10 feet long, and about 18 inches deep, and this guy thought he might be able to climb over it… he would of, but his Father with him would not so he gave up.

DSCN8371

So we started to head our way back up to the group… if we had kept going, 1 more mile and we would have hit Lake Havasu… also, for Rick over in Desert Hot Springs, I found lovely white golf shirt I am wearing below, at a store called Labels… and it was $3.00 so I bought myself a whole wardrobe of them! 

DSCN8374

It was a bit of a tight fit in places to make it through…

P3171651

Over the years as Judy and I have done a bunch of crazy stuff, we always kid each other that I married the “Sport Model”… here she is showing off her hand over hand rock climbing ability!  It was about 15 feet up on the rope…

P3171659

The guy who climbed the water took this picture for us of our group…

DSCN8380

Next we were off for the Parker Dam.  It is just south of Lake Havasu on the Colorado River, but we had to stop at a Mexican Restaurant and have lunch first.  Two California State Patrol Officers came in to have lunch here in AZ. as they said it was great food.   They were very nice and we had a great talk with them… we were talking about the poor financial status of the State of California, and one of the Officers invited us to come over to California this afternoon, speed down the highway so he could charge me with speeding, and help him also meet his “quota” for the day… and one more ticket and he would hit his bonus for the day which was “steak knives…”  funny guy!

P3171662

The big yellow thing is a crane, that opens the runway doors so water can go and hit the turbines and generate electricity.

P3171663

We continued south to the Town of Parker along the California side, and found lots of neat RV parks that were right on the Colorado River…

P3171670

After some shopping in Parker, we headed home and Judy and I took a side bar trip on a Jeep Road back to a wild life preserve… lots of neat mountains back there…

P3171676

Very nice country around here, you all have to come one day!

P3171680

So it was a big day out, and we had a great time… made it back to go and fly my plane for an hour… yes, it is still in 1 piece… and then watch my Leaf’s lose… oh dear…

Till tomorrow…

5 comments:

  1. oh dear..the canucks are at over 100 points..just thought I would throw that out there!..happy saint paddy's day to you all!..looks like you had a great hike today!!

    ReplyDelete
  2. Happy St Patricks Day to both of you! I hope you were not too hot on your hike - its stifling down here in Ajo. We saw a turn off the highway in Yuma to the model airplane strip! Might have to put that on your list, John.

    ReplyDelete
  3. That was quite a day - great pictures! That hike did remind me of our day at the Painted Canyon only thankfully we had ladders and not ropes - I would probably have slipped and hanged myself!

    Nice shirts - $3, what a deal!! I would have gone for that for sure.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Liked that hike part of your day for sure. Just love those kinds of places where you can get out & do some rock scrambling & be surrounded by great scenery. 'Sporty' looks pretty agile going up that rope alright. So great to have a partner interested in the same great outdoor things too. I am extrememly fortunate in that department as well:))

    ReplyDelete
  5. Looks like you had a great day hiking, I loved the tour, thanks for sharing.

    ReplyDelete