Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Thursday, May 5, 2011
West Fork of Oak Creek Trail
Sheriece, Sandra, Melanie, Jan I took this hike in May of 2006. It is breath takingly beautiful! Vivid Color everywhere you look.
Monday, May 2, 2011
2009 Hike??
It was a cold rainy day in the desert
We came upon a very small pond near this boulder, (a result of all the rain that year). In it were 3 trout happily swimming. This was a very curious thing to find in the desert.
Some of the wildlife we have come across on our hikes:1. Rattlesnakes
2. Coyotes
3, Gila Monsters
4. Horned toads, and various lizards
5. Deer
6. Big horned sheep
7. desert tortoise
8.rabbits
9 Wild turkey (in the Chiricahuas)
10. fish
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Superstition 2008 ??? (I need help with hike name and date)
Spit Bridge to Manly Hike, Sydney Australia-June 2008
In 1965 my father and uncles homesteaded a beautiful large farm in Kununurra, Western Australia.In June of 2008, 16 members of my family traveled to Kununurra to visit the farm.Our first Australia stop was in Sydney, where we enjoyed the Spit Bridge to Many Hike, shown below.
It was a beautiful June day (winter in Australia) The walk from Spit Bridge to Manly Wharf is a 5.9 mile walk through the Sydney Harbor National Park.
We hiked through rain-forests and bush type nature reserves, over boardwalks and along cliffs, on beaches and past expensive waterfront homes. It was all beautiful and so interesting.
Blood red tree sap.
Along our walk we would see lots of these spider webs, which appeared to be floating in the air, all loaded with spiders. Creepy buy Cool.
The hike ended at Manly Ferry Wharf where I insisted on taking this picture of the manly men in our group. We then caught a 30 minute ferry ride to Circular Quay, which is just next to the Sydney Opera House and the Syndey Harbour Bridge.
I highly recommend this hike to anyone traveling to Sydney, it took about half a day, including a stop for lunch and some shopping at Manly. Spectacular!
Friday, April 29, 2011
Mountains in our lives....
"All of us have mountains in our lives: mountains of trials, mountains of discouragement, mountains of temptations. And sometimes we cannot see where we are going, and sometimes the path is rough, and sometimes we stumble. But we must always remember that there is one who will take us by the hand and keep us on the right path and pick us up when we fall. We just have to follow his light. And that’s the Savior...." by Betty Curry New Era 1988
Aravaipa Canyon, May 2008
Hiking Aravaipa Canyon is a must do for Arizona hikers. It is truly an adventure.
From Phoenix we took Highway 60 east to Superior, we then drove south on 177 to Winkelman, then south on AZ 77, 11 miles to Aravaipa Road. To hike Aravaipa you have to have a permit, it is is run by the Bureau of Land Management, and they limit its use to 50 people per day. (Thirty from the west end, and twenty from the east. The east end is 45 miles from Ft. Thomas.) The good news is we saw very few people as we hiked. We walked approximately 6 miles before turning around to hike back to our car. It is 24 miles round trip to hike the whole trail. What we hope to do in the future is split into two hiking groups starting from opposite ends, meeting in the middle and trading keys.The views are breathtaking changing from mile to mile. Most of the hiking is done in the water. We tried water sandals but ended up changing into our hiking boots, (too much sand and gravel in our shoes). On our way home we stopped in Winkelman at a little Mexican Food Restaurant, the food was fantastic or was it that we were starving?
It was a long full day, but well worth it!!
Great Wall of China, april 2008
What a privilege it was to hike the Great Wall of China, Simply Amazing!!
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