We decided to look up the Cibola National Wildlife Refuge. We had an address and had looked it up on mapquest. Taking our GPS we headed out. We realized after awhile that "Alice" (this is the GPS's nickname, instead of Bob's nickname for her) didn't have this address in her system. We finally seen a sign to turn this direction. So we are going the right way now. We came upon a place which way do we go. We went one way when we seen this sign, "cross at your own risk". Oh no!! This didn't sound like the way to go. Turned around went the other way -- dead end. Bob said I think we should go that other way. Needless to say I have a problem with some bridges (most I like and think they are nice), but when it says cross at your own risk -- I planted my feet and held on. Second picture was the bridge. We made it!!! I have a problem taking a golf cart across a wooden bridge. Thank goodness this wasn't wooden.

The lady at the refuge said when the old bridge had to be replaced, California and Arizona both refused to put another one in. But the farmers in the area needed a bridge there, so they paid to have a new one installed. To cover them they had to put the sign up. She told us it was quite safe. LOL

This is what we were headed for with our adventure. This is Cibola National Wildlife Refuge. They said most of the Canada Geese come from Montana. There was a lot of Sandhill Cranes and assortment of other waterfowl. They have bobcats, coyotes, and mule deer. I also seen a sign they have Diamondhead Snakes.

We drove through the area and then walked about one mile into the area. I thought it best to keep my head down watching for the snakes. We didn't see anything other than waterfowl and deer, which was fine with me.

This is just a portion of the geese & ducks on the waters.

At the Refuge the sky is just black when the Canada Geese take off from the field & water.

These are mule deer at the Refuge.

This is an area of stacked bales of hay. This area grows so very very much hay, but without an site of livestock. The lady at the Cibola National Wildlife Refuse told us that the hay is grown here for feed lot of dairy farms in California.