The wind kicks up in the morning and keeps it up all day. Although there is a chill in the gusts, the temperatures reach 66 degrees by mid-afternoon.
Ron decides to give the City of Apache Junction a call to find out if they allow metal detecting in the parks and they do! He heads out about 10 minutes later to Prospectors Park located not far from here.
Justice and I hang out at the campsite, I worked some and then cleaned the camper. With 2 adults and 1 large dog, it really needs swept about every 3 – 4 days. It doesn’t take long to clean the 200 square feet but feels and looks like a lot better.
Ron had some good finds to show me when he gets back. One piece is a sterling silver butterfly with abalone stone. He found a couple other pieces too, one unusual earring that looks like a wing and is about 4 inches long with 2 stones on it. He also found some coins totaling nearly $1.00 but no copper or silver coins. The city of Apache Junction is heavily populated with senior citizens, and he is pretty sure the park is heavily hunted but he found a couple things making it worthwhile today. There are several other parks he may try while we are here.
When we first arrived here at Lost Dutchman, we got a list of birds from the Ranger Station that are located near the park. We decided to use this list to track all the birds we photographed on our trip. Today we added to our running list, we photographed Ohio’s State bird, the Northern Cardinal who was getting a drink of water at our faucet and a Northern Flicker who was pecking at an electric box at a high speed, it sounded like a jack hammer.
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