The sunrise this morning was just as spectacular or possibly more so, than yesterday’s sunset. Ron snapped a few photos of it before checking out the geocache that we discovered was located nearby here.
GPS led him down to the boat ramp at the Lake, about .6 miles from the campground across the desert and down the rocky trail. It was placed there by Rustypiton from Franklin, Ohio in April 2008 and upon reaching the cache, Ron signed the logbook, took a wooden token and left a carabiner. The token had an applicable quote ‘Not all who wander are lost, some are geocaching’! Geocaching is a type of global treasure hunt of people looking for caches, or hidden stashes of objects. Seekers use global positioning systems (GPS) to find hidden caches and its customary to take an object and to leave something behind.
He took the camera with him and was able to capture a photo of a Ring Billed Gull. These birds are typically found near aquatic areas and are fairly large with wing spans between 41 – 46 inches. Ring-billed Gulls are known for dropping and then re-catching their prey. This ‘game’ is a way of honing their hunting skills.
The winds were fierce today at 25 – 35mph with gusts up to 50mph. We were so glad we weren’t traveling today; it would have been impossible. We did have to move campsites here since our current site was reserved by another party for today, but we had reserved site #24 for tonight. We briefly talked with our neighbors who had gotten an emergency site reserved for tonight, scraping their plans to travel to a new campground to avoid the dangerous winds. There are few trees here so nothing to buffer the winds. We hunkered down and felt the trailer shake, rattle, and fortunately – not roll.
There was not much we could do but stay inside and wait for the winds to die down. Fixed a nice pasta meal for supper and plan to read our books tonight. Tomorrow’s forecast includes cooler temperatures but only small winds of 7mph and gusts of up to 15.
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