Due to the amount of rain we got over the last few weeks and months, the desert is very green, there are weeds and grass ...Continue Reading
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ZooLights
Our friends Hilary and Randy invited us to visit ZooLights last night - thanks for the opportunity! Every year from the ...Continue Reading
Merry Christmas
Looking back, 2018 was quite an eventful and costly year for us. It started off with Marco’s triple hernia surgery in ...Continue Reading
This time of the year
It’s fall, even here in the desert, and we hear from different sources that now is the time to see some fall colors. For us ...Continue Reading
Globe – Young Hwy, Apache Trail
We are off to an early start today, leaving the house at 5:30am. Sunrise is at 6:15am and we want to be up in Miami, AZ at ...Continue Reading
Monsoon Season – Flooding
Monsoon season in southern Arizona starts mid-June and lasts until the end of September. This is when the humidity can ...Continue Reading
Mogollon Rim – Woods Canyon Lake, AZ
Marco recently got a tip about Woods Canyon Lake up at the Mogollon Rim. He was told that some Ospreys and Bald Eagles were ...Continue Reading
Arizona Bobcat
We knew that there are bobcats at the Salt River, we have heard from people who saw them and not too long ago Marco met some ...Continue Reading
Great Horned Owls
On my numerous visits to the Salt River I recently got a hint from Dick and Rick, two snowbirds currently residing at an ...Continue Reading
Arizona River Otters
On December 8, 2017 we saw our first Arizona river otter at the Salt River (Coon Bluff) - a rare sighting as I can tell. This ...Continue Reading
Wonderful morning
As most weekends this winter I went with Marco to the Salt River at Goldfield Rd. When heading towards the sand cliffs to ...Continue Reading
Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch, Gilbert, AZ
Since there was some big event going on at the Salt River today we decided to avoid the crowds and head out for a visit to ...Continue Reading
Bighorn Sheep – What a surprise!
Our dear friend Yvonne was a little jealous about the Javelina pictures I've recently taken - despite her numerous visits to ...Continue Reading
Holiday Greetings
Some years it’s easy to look back and talk about all the good things that happened and other years you have to look a bit ...Continue Reading
Javelina
We have been visiting the Salt River regularly in the last few months - there is always something to see - furthermore it's ...Continue Reading