| Day 3
After two nights camping at KOFA Nature
Preserve we continued north to Quartzsite where we filled our water
containers, bought ice, and ate lunch at MacDonalds. From Quartzsite we
headed northeast towards Lake Alamo. We took a break at these trees. They
were pistachio trees and we had our fill of nuts. Lots were
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| Here is the lake. Behind me
Ingela, Eyvind, and Sunniva are coming up the road. We have walked on the
dam and on the spillway next to the dam. The spillway is a wide man-made
opening in the mountain with a flat floor where water can overflow, which
never has happened since the dam was built in 1968. |
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| As you can read here the
permanent lake is 500 acres. Before the water reaches the spillway level
the area of the lake will have increased 26-fold, to 13.300 acres.
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| Ocotillo in bloom against a
background of lake water.
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| Day 4
We rented a boat and took it to the other
side of the lake. It was quite windy.
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| On the other side of the lake we
ate our lunch and took this photo with the self-release.
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| Because the Arizona desert is
still quite empty of people there is much more freedom for campers in
Arizona than in California. You are free to camp almost anywhere and you
can gather firewood. So every night we made a big campfire.
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