Lajitas is right outside Big Bend on the west. It is mostly a large resort with a golf course, part of which is an old movie set. We are at the resorts RV park. We drove up the Rio Grande scenic drive in the afternoon.
The bus at the Lajitas Maverick RV resort. Your typical desert RV park, no trees, flat open parking. Lovely area. The Contrabando movie set. 9 movies were filmed here. Including the Streets of Laredo.
Contrabando bar. Blue bonnets along the road. There were whole hillsides covered with them.
Tuft formation by the road. Tee Pee picnic area.
The Rio Grande canyon. We found this little canyon trail and walked it. Called Closed canyon.
John in Closed canyon. Near the end we came to this water hole, took some fancy scrambling to get around. We did not want to slide into the gacky waist deep water.
Me scrambling. John on the way back.
Still on the way back. Outside the mouth of the canyon.
sunset from the RV park. The masterpiece finished.
There are a couple kinds of trees in the area that have these tiny little leaves. I think this one is a mesquite, but it is hard to tell them apart. White bonnets and a cactus.
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