{"id":1437,"date":"2016-03-17T23:52:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T23:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/?page_id=1437"},"modified":"2017-07-11T23:39:57","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T23:39:57","slug":"arizona-excursions-part-8b","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/can-you-spell-rv\/arizona-adventures-2015-2016\/arizona-excursions-part-8b\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Excursions – Two Scorpions, a Snake + more"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week we had our first scorpions of the season visit the Visitor’s Center, plus we encountered\u00a0our first\u00a0snake along the road … it was just a gopher snake, but it did get our hearts going a little.<\/p>\n

Later this week our friend Karen came to Phoenix to accompany her friend Joann who was going to a conference.\u00a0 The four of us had a fun day:<\/p>\n

Goldfield Ghost Town<\/strong><\/p>\n

Goldfield is one of several old mining towns in and near the Superstition Mountains (the \u201cLost Dutchman Mine\u201d is in the area \u2013 see external link<\/a> for more about the Lost Dutchman Mine).\u00a0 \u00a0It is now a fun (if a little bit hokie) tourist attraction with shops, a \u201cbrothel\u201d, Jail, saloon, etc.<\/p>\n

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Dolly Steamboat<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then it was on to Canyon Lake in the Superstition Mountains.\u00a0 Canyon Lake was formed when the Mormon Flat Dam was constructed on the Salt River in 1925.\u00a0 The boat cruise included sightings of Desert Bighorn Sheep and Bald Eagles, as well as interesting juxtapositions of desert cactus plants adjacent to this huge lake.<\/p>\n

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Bighorn Sheep<\/p>\n

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Two Eagle Nests<\/p>\n

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Coot (the birds, not the people kind)<\/p>\n

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A Mastedon & a T-Rex (use your imagination)<\/p>\n

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Petrified wood & stone varnish<\/p>\n

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Cactus next to the lake<\/p>\n

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And beautiful views.<\/p>\n

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This week we had our first scorpions of the season visit the Visitor’s Center, plus we encountered\u00a0our first\u00a0snake along the road … it was just a gopher snake, but it did get our hearts going a little. Later this week our friend Karen came to Phoenix to accompany her friend Joann who was going to … Continue reading Arizona Excursions – Two Scorpions, a Snake + more<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1550,"menu_order":51,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1437","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2609,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1437\/revisions\/2609"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}