Another boringly (but welcome) sunny with blue skies wake up. Night time temperatures are still around 8°C, but considering we are 1500′ up in the desert that’s no too bad.
We decided it was time for a day out, so the plan was to head up to North of Phoenix to visit a Pioneer town, dating from the late 1800’s. This was well before Arizona became a State. It was the last of the contiguous States and joined the US on Feb 14, 1912.
The town wasn’t bad, but there no people there acting out the part of the towns people, and the “stores” and “workshops” were not open. Evidently there will be a number of volunteers there tomorrow acting out roles, but there will also be over 500 schoolkids there.
General Landscape Around the Town
Undertakers With Coffins Outside
Cactus
More Cactus
Church
Wheelwright
Pumping out Water to Pan for Gold
Ranch House
General Town View
Covered Wagon
Large Saguaro Cactus
The saguaro cactus can live for over 200 years and grow to 60ft in height. These cacti are unique to Arizona, parts of northern Mexico and a few stray ones in California.
After the visit to the town we headed out to the Deer Valley Rock Art Centre. This an area of many large boulders, most of them bearing petroglyphs. A petroglyph is a marking carved into a rock usually using a stone tool. Some of the petroglyphs were made 10,000 years ago. These petroglyphs were made by American Indian people over a period spanning thousands of years.
