Roper Lake State Park and some Shelburners!

March 14-17, 2016

It was time to do a little business such as laundry, banking, a haircut, cleaning and vacuuming the rig (using a powerful car wash vacuum cleaner to get rid of some of that desert dust!) and we used this lovely smallish park on a smallish lake (read, reservoir) as our base.  We had a few pleasant walks, saw a few birds and, when coming back from our errands one evening met up with a group of very friendly people, two of whom, Gus and Ann Kaufman, are summer Shelburne, NS residents!!!  Wow, what an incredible coincidence as we pulled into our campsite and Gus is pointing at his Nova Scotia T-shirt! (and later showed off his Boxing Rock shirt, yeah!)   Well, this called for a couple of get-togethers  and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and our new friends.

 The area is known as the Alpine region of the Sonoran desert and  one can see why, with the chalets on the lake, framed by the snow-covered peaks of Mount Graham.

View of our campground from the top of a nearby Mesa

 

Pretty Roper lake

One of many red-winged blackbirds who make Roper Lake Park their home

And a motley crew of Arizonians, Wisconsinians (?) and Gus and Ann on the right from Wisconsin  and Shelburners, Nova Scotia, during part of the summer.  See you guys in August!