Next stop was Discount Solar to get some wire to rewire and reroute my solar panel wiring to work better with the new mounts. A short stop to get filtered drinking water. Another stop at the Chamber of Commerce for a map which they didn't have. And then home.
On the way into the LTVA, we stopped at the office and asked about where to find the Indian grinding rocks and we were in luck. The volunteer there had just been there and knew the road number to take. It was different the the number in the book I was reading.
On our walk yesterday evening, i noticed the first floweres had appeared and more are ready to appear. I didn't have my camera with me so i had to go find the early bloomers again this morning.
This place is going to the birds. We had a visitor from a nice big bird, a red hawk. Also we have quail. This one was doing his morning calls from his perch.
It's hard to believe but we have moss on the wash banks near our campsite.
We headed on out and found it easily. There is a bunch of rocks along Tyson Wash, actually Tyson Wash goes between them. Most of the area is flat land except for these rocks. The wash makes an "S" turn here and the area under the cliff formed by the rocks washes out and there is still water there, a lot of it. Found the tank. This is where Road 621 meets the wash. Road 621 is just South of Road 356 before the gas line road we took the other day.
The view of the tank from the West side of Tyson Wash above the Indian grinding holes.
I checked the top of the cliff and didn't find any grinding holes but did find a bee hive in a hole in the ground. Smart insects these bees,
On the cliff above the tank are several petroglyphs. My interpretation is that they are recording floods due to a lot of wavy horizontal lines. At least that's my guess.
Across the wash there is another cliff and in the rocks on top of that are several grinding holes, one more that a foot deep. Mission accomplished! Our failed mission of a couple of days ago became a successful mission today.
Wee hear the coyotes some evenings. Here are some tracks we think are coyote. They are following the tracks of a rabbit along the wash.
While we were there wa walked around the area and discovered lots of flowers. In a couple of days the valley floor may be covered with them. These are just the early bloomers.
There are a lot more flowers today.
Most of the flowers are fairly small but these were an exception.
We stopped at McDonald's for ice cream cones on our way home and then had a nice lunch, ham sandwich for me, salad for Lou. We always try to eat desert first.
Dinner was at the QIA. I had their evening special beef stew with a pancake. Lou had a biscuit and gravy. All very good and a very cheap night out!
A nice sunset to complete the day!
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