California, Winterhaven Jan 19 - Feb 2 2015

Here we are back at Pilot Knob RV Park near Winterhaven, CA. again.  We are meeting up with  John and Terry Edwards and Mark and Mary Nichols.  We really love this part of Arizona, because there are so many green fields here.  The whole area around Yuma is nothing but fields of green vegetables.  Being an old farm boy, and in the middle of March it is great to see so much growing.

Pilot Knob, Winterhaven, CA

Mark and Mary Nichols.  They have been traveling full time for over 15 years.  This picture was taken in Mexico where we spent the day shopping and I got new glasses.

Lunch at Restaurant and Bar El Paraiso in Los Algodones, Mexico with Mark & Mary and Francine & Orin and Marty & Kay.  It's always fun to stop here they have good margaritas and live music.

Here we are unloading the kayaks for our first trip of the year down the Colorado River north of Yuma.  John & Terry and Marty & Kay will make the run.  Mark will do the truck shuttling  back to the take out.

Mark getting ready to help me get launched.  Of course you know who took this picture,  Just look at the blue nose of her kayak.  Kay takes a lot of pictures as we kayak.

Terry Edwards

Marty Moeller

Kay Edwards - Moeller

John & Terry a couple of happy kayakers.

A view of the slew as we left the launch point headed for the Colorado River.

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Black-crowned Night-Herons are stocky birds compared to many of their long-limbed heron relatives. They’re most active at night or at dusk, when you may see their ghostly forms flapping out from daytime roosts to forage in wetlands. In the light of day adults are striking in gray-and-black plumage and long white head plumes. These social birds breed in colonies of stick nests usually built over water. They live in fresh, salt, and brackish wetlands and are the most widespread heron in the world.

Marty in the lead again.

Mission church on top of the hill by the train bridge.

Marty headed for the train bridge.

Going under the Interstate 8 bridge going to California.

This is the launch point for our second trip down the Colorado River.  This one we called the island slew launch.  There were seven of us that made this trip down the river.  Once again Mark and Mary did the truck shuttling for us.  It was soooo good to have them do that for us.   

This is Marty Bretz, we meet up with him and his wife Juanita at Pilot Knob.  They are from Colorado also.

Carol Curtis  she is from Suney, BC, Canada  We also meet them at Pilot Knob.

Terry Curtis and their dog Frieda 

From the Left Kay Edwards-Moeller, John Edwards, Terry Edwards, Marty Bertz, Terry Curtis, Carol Curtis.  What a good day going down the river.

Everybody messing around in the Island Slew before we head down the river.

Kay famous bow shot of the river ahead.

American Coots

Juvenile Bald Eagle

Coot hiding in the grass.

Mark waiting for us at the pickup point.

This is the takeout point.

Here Marty is trying to help Marty out of the kayak.

Kay and I were invited over to Francine and Orin's for supper for Kay's birthday.  Francine and Kay have been friends for about 45 years.  

Orin and Francine from Mitchell, Nebraska.

Friends for life.

We had the camper washed while we were at Pilot Knob.  The cost was $1.00 per foot.  That came to $37.00.  Not a bad price.

Ash-throated Flycatcher

House Finch

This Pigeon must have been someones, for it had a band on it leg.

Alas, the sun sets on our last day at Pilot Knob.  We will be back in two weeks.