November 2-3, 2021

Camping At Ferguson Lake

Riverfront RV Park Yuma, Arizona Day 8 and 9

On Tuesday, a pleasant morning walk!

We loaded our gear into the Jeep for another overnight tent camping trip.  We drove through farm country and past the Cloud Museum.  It boasts the largest collection of Model T’s in the world! 

We stopped at Imperial Date Gardens.  We got fresh dates, fresh date nut bread and a date milkshake to share.  We were fighting over the shake…we both wished we had more when it was done.  It was sooooo good!!

We took the rough road about 10 miles to our campsite. 

We were perched on the edge of a canyon about 200 feet above Ferguson Lake.  We camped here once last year.  I love it when the memory of a place is just as beautiful when you go back a second time. 

Tim’s video!

We passed the evening with a campfire, for ambiance, we didn’t need it to stay warm!  We cooked omelets and ate them with the delicious date nut bread. 

We watched the blue sky turn orange and then black.  The stars erupted all at once in the great whitewash of the Milky Way. I saw 4 shooting stars.  During the night we could hear the hooting of owls, the braying of feral burros, and the howling of coyotes.  Other than that, it was silent and dark.  We don’t realize how noisy and bright our world is until we are in true solitude.

This morning we were awake to watch the sunrise…yet again.  On these camping trips, we allow ourselves the pleasure of two cups of coffee…such a treat because we have whittled ourselves down to one cup on an ordinary day. I never get tired of it…all those things, sunrises, sunsets, shooting stars…they all happen whether we look or not.  I am so grateful for the opportunity to be able to stop and notice. 

Military jets flying overhead.

We drove down the hill and to the lake.  We could hear the coots calling.

We are not all alone here…

We hiked into the canyon. 

Just as we were driving out of the wilderness area, we saw pair of burros.

Per usual, the day after a night out, we were pretty low key.

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