Thursday, February 9, 2012 -- We went to Quartzsite, AZ today. Weather today is really nice, sunny and probably around 75 degrees. We thought we were going to have a breezy day, but it is really nice. Breezy got lost.

Went to Quartzsite, AZ. As we are looking at Quartzsite you can see all of the trailers in the distance. This is an area where a lot of RV'ers camp in the desert. They have gem & rock sales and also miscellaneous flea markets. So we walked around for awhile and then headed back to trailer, in the campground in Ehrenberg about 15 miles west of this area. Quite a place.

Wednesday, February 8, 2012 -- We drove to Parker, AZ. These are the picture we took along the way.

This is a field of hay that they have started flooding.

This is a burned off field. We have never been in the area to know if it is a hay field, or if it is a cotton field. Never in the that area at the right time to know.

This was from our drive yesterday to Parker, AZ. The green is a hay field, bales of stacked hay from previous cutting, and the pretty mountains.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012 -- We started our day with breakfast at Denny's in Bythe, CA. Just going across the river. Then spend the day getting lost to go to Cibola Refuge (read more with pictures). But thank goodness we did finally get to where we wanted to go.

At this refuge they have many waterfowl (we were there at around 1:00 Pst and only seen the waterfowl). Mule deer, coyote, and bobcat are common mammals on the refuge. Occasionally you can spot mountain lion, kit fox, gray fox, and badgers too. Two years ago we did see the mule deer there.

The weather was cloudy but nice.

We have left the refuge now and almost back to our trailer when we seen the cloud of dust. He is really working up this soil. In this area they do the same with flooding their crops like they do in Yuma/Winterhaven. With the ground that dusty I'm sure glad they can flood their crops. Their main crops here is field after field of hay.

At some point during our trip out here we heard the United States send ship loads of hay to China. Never heard that before.

This was still in the refuge. He is raking the hay. There are 2000 acres that are farmed to provide food for the migrating and wintering waterfowl. Farmers harvest hay in the summer (last time I knew this was winter), and leave alfalfa, corn, milo, millet, and other crops for wildlife during the winter.

Then there was these sandhill Cranes. Many of them too. These were closer to us and zoomed them in to get their picture.

There was so so many geese. This is just a portion of the geese at the pond.

Obviously this is a close up of all the geese.

This is the sign after entering the Cibola National Wildlife Refuge.

This is the "narrow" bridge to cross the Colorado River going from California to Arizona side. This bridge was installed by the farmers in the area. Years ago the county or state bridge was condemned and they wouldn't install another bridge. So the farmers installed their own. But they put up a sign that said "cross at your own risk" for liability purposes. Oh that makes me feel so SAFE. But it was there two years ago and still there -- so it must be okay.

Ok, this is the picture of the GPS route to take to Cibola Refuse. We were there two years ago. Didn't remember some of the turns we did, but figured it was just a different way to go. WELL, after 7 miles of driving where there wasn't anyone we did come upon a campground along a river (was it Colorado, I don't know). But finally WE turned around. Remember I don't have a steering wheel, or brakes. We did see a sign for the National Park with the same name, but not the area we wanted. Drove back to civilization and stopped at a gas station and she gave direction for where we wanted to go. Bob says I'm not a adventurist, LOL first time he noticed!!!