We escaped another rainy day, so we finished our wonderful sights in Valley of Fire State Park. We had some earthcaches/geo-caches to do there yet, and a little hiking, so we did that, and went into Overton, to see what 'the closest town has to offer'. I think we will skip our plan to buy groceries there and do it in Page, AZ when we get there. We might clean out some cupboards of some canned goods that we need to use up! We didn't find much in this remote little town, but we did find the post office to send some mail out.
We returned to our campground, with the feeling that we will be housebound again for tomorrow. They are predicting rain here, so we'll plan to venture out on Friday. We will go down to Hoover Dam and check out that area. We are about an hour from there. We're glad we stopped here to see this beautiful state park, and we wonder why it wasn't designated a national park. Our campground is very quiet and today we have four RV's and the camp host, staying here. I made chili to whet our appetites for the next few days.
We are actually, staying in the Lake Mead Recreation Area, but this campground is privately owned. We think the campground was here first, as we have never heard of such a thing. We'll have to check that out.
Jim is holding his GPS because we needed that photo to prove that we were at this site. We had to climb the stairs to the top to view some very old Petroglyphs. They claim that these are 4,000 years old and they reflect the people and activities of that period.
This is one picture I took of the Petroglyphs, and the Big Horn Sheep is a prominent figure in these writings.
Another earthcache brought us to this arch in the park. It is quite nice, but this park is full of arches!
I tried to find out what this flowering shrub is, but to no avail. It was strikingly dark purple. Pretty.
Another earthcache brought us to this rock formation, called 'Beehive'. The wind and rain causes erosion of the sandstone rocks, and results in this effect.
This little delicate flower reminded me of the Filaree that we see in The Valley, but it's not the same. Again, I failed the test on trying to find out what it is.
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