Palm Trees and Crystals

About 9am today our little Jeep was rolling toward Gina’s idea of the perfect place—Crystal Hill.  My, my our Gina was in heaven, so many rocks, so little time!  We did spend about three hours there, hiking, climbing and searching for crystals but Gina is ready to go back.  No one found the perfect crystal but we all found some treasures to bring home.  Gina found a couple perfect tiny little crystals. Good thing Gina forgot and left her rock pick at home. When climbing around on top of one of the ridges, Michael noticed a windmill in the distance.  On leaving, we found the windmill-- pumping water for this wildlife watering cistern-- Then, we saw some wildlife—Michael was able to snap this photo of these three guys after they crossed the road in front of us-- Onward to Palm Canyon.  We hiked into Palm Canyon with Jim and Ellie last year and were so in awe.  We wanted to share that with Gina and Rollie—they weren’t disappointed.

The palm trees are located up inside the shaded canyon—you can faintly see the road leading up to the parking area.

A far off view of the palms and a close up The canyon was very windy today and just a little on the cool side.  Hiking back to the car we headed toward home with one more stop—how’s that for a healthy supper???  Back home we found out Deb and Rod are still without power and have an appointment in Quartzsite tomorrow to have a new inverter installed.  Ellie and Jim conquered the laundromat in Parker today.

Miss Emmi went along today and she is one pooped puppy tonight!