April 22, 2019 Cattail Cove, Lake Havasu, Arizona

It was a cooler day today. It was only 88. It was also partly cloudy and windy so we headed off for a hike.

We hiked up this canyon to Ripley's run. It is supposed to be moderate to difficult. You go down a narrow canyon and you have to climb down dry waterfalls.  Lots of cool patterns in the plants. Red stems, white desert gems, red flowered plant, dodder, yellow and red plant and two sun cups. 

Yellow creosote and palo  verde flowers, fiddleheads,red and white leaves, yellow palo verde flowers with a smoke tree in front, daddy long legs with white striped legs, and a phacelia with a bloom and fiddle head. Nice view of the lake with a cholla and creosote bush in the foreground 

Sign for Ripley's run trail. Carry lots of water. Be snake aware.blooming poppies in a row, brittle bush blooms,  palo verde blooms up close, cholla cactus and brittle bush blooms.  Intricate branches on a dead bush, gilia blooms, gravel ghost in front of brittle bush blooms, I have no idea how I got that flower to glow, but I was taking a photo of the flower in the next photo, blooming cholla. 

John climbing a ridge with cholla and blooming palo verde in front. Nice cholla cactus on the horizon with blooming flowers and wild grasses. 

White crypantias, two different groups of gravel ghost, desert trumpet, gravel ghost bloom, one beetle on the back of the one under it that is carrying it. Sand verbenas above the lake, seed heads, paper bag bush flowers, phacelia in front of a red rock cave, the seeds of the paper bag bush, they seem to think they look like paper bags. 

The canyon is starting to narrow. John with all the blooms, Willow, nightshade, cool piece of wood, Tiny crypanthias, prickly poppy and one of many caves on the canyon walls.  

Water mark on the canyon wall, tiny mesquite leaves, red range ratany flowers. 

 Me coming down one of the dry waterfalls.

John climbing down another dry fall. He turned around and took a photo of me on top of it.

Beautiful canyon with green trees and flowers. 

We survived the canyon and made it to Lake Havasu. On the way back John found another narrow canyon. It sucked us in.  

John in the narrows.

Beautiful red rock walls. 

Sunset tonight from camp.

April 20-21, 2019 Cattail Cove State Park, Arizona

Only 94 degrees today, mostly sunny with some wind.

The moon last night behind the clouds. We went kayaking today on the lake. We left a busy beach. 

John heading out by huge boats and jet ski's. John paddling by the cliffs. The wind and all the boats made the water a bit choppy, but it was a beautiful day on the water.  

John with red cliffs. We went into this little side canyon.  

Lots of blue eyed darners. The water is so clear John looks suspended int he air in his boat.  

John heading back into the beach. The beach was busy.  

I finished another dress. It is old fashioned Hawaiian print with women in old time bathing suits. I found the fabric at a thrift store for $2 when I was looking for my costume for the fruit cake festival and couldn't pass it up.  John cooking pizza in the BBQ. I baked the crust in the morning when it was cool, then assembled it tonight and John cooked it in the BBQ because it was too hot to heat up the oven. It came out yummy. 

Last light across the lake in California. This part of sunset was so high above the horizon it is not in it. 

Sunset over camp. John is a happy boy after eating pizza.  

The last of sunset and a shot from above camp on our evening stroll. 

The beach was deserted today. We had lunch here. I found this great sparkly hat floating by when we were kayaking on the lake yesterday. John hates it, but I have always wanted a sparkly baseball hat, and here it is.  

Cool looking tree on the beach today. I sat in my chair and worked on the basket on the beach, it is closer to being done.  

This palo verde tree  with the petals spread all around it in the campground is magnificent. 

April 19, 2019 Cattail Cove State Park, Arizona

It was predicted to be 100 degrees today!!

I got up at 730- way early for me and we went for a nice 4.2 mile hike on some of the trails here in the park before it got hot. John coming up a wash. A blooming palo verde tree and some smoke trees in the wash.

Gravel ghost, pin cushion and poppies. Lupine, unknown flowers and purple mat.  

We missed the turn onto our trail and ended up at the culvert under the highway. Of course we had to go through it. John on the trail with wild flowers at his feet.

John on a curvy trail. The view from the top of the lake, marina and beach in the campground.

 We hiked out  to Wylie's rest. It is a boat or hike in to campsite complete with bathroom, picnic table and beach. Honey mesquite blooms over the lake. 

Lupines and pincushions in front of the view. Blooming brittle bushes in front of some tropical looking water. I love the color of this lake.  

Blooming palo verde's. John walking on the trail back to camp under a blooming palo verde.  

 

Sunset from camp.

Cholla blossoms. unknown flower and seed pods, brittle bush blooms. Cholla blooms, sand verbena. a seed head and oleanders blooming in camp. Forecast of 100 for today!!

Phacelia, poppies and palo verde blooms. Suncups, dodder, trumpet plant flowers and a cholla bloom.