Thursday we were up and on the road early to arrive at Fisher's Landing, an hour from Yuma by 10AM. The jetboat heldup to 30 and we had 27 that day. The entertaining tour guide would be giving a similar tour to 4th graders the next day. He's third generation giving tours. We got to bring our own beer cooler but they did have a generous box lunch for each of us and great coffee nd lemonade. We stopped at an old gold mine as this river was how many miners reached their prospecting opportunities. Also saw Indian petroglifs and got the guide's 4th grader's version of the Indian culture.
Through years of erosion, the Grand Canyon silt came down the Colorado River - too thick to drink, too thin to plow. The silt would equal as much as 8 acres 1 foot deep per hour which filled in the Imperial valley in California. Now that the dams, it's very clear by comparison. On the west side was California and the Chocolate Mountains. On the East the Kofa mountains in AZ. This was the CHIBOLA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE. We didn't see bighorn sheep or donkeys ( abandoned by miners).They haul out 1200 a year for adoption.
Fun DAY. LUNCH AT NORTON'S LANDING where the steamboats came up in the 1880 - again bringing people and supplies for mining. It used to be a town of 2500 mining gold on the ca SIDE. NOW IT'S 5 RANGERS.
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