Arizona Desert Museum

Well, we are still in Tucson. Our refrigerator quit working over the weekend so when we got in to La Mesa RV on Monday to have the black water flush replacement installed they changed out the thermostate and told us to go home and if it worked we were free to go and if not it probably was the cooling unit. Guess what? It didn't work so they have ordered a new cooling unit that will be in Thursday or Friday. In the mean time we threw away everything in the refrigerator except the wine and cheese and bought another ice chest so that we could buy some milk.

We also found out that the extended warrenty salesman never got our signed contract so we don't have an extended warrenty. Of course they charged the credit card last August but no policy was ever registered with the warrenty people. Thank goodness the refrigerator is covered by Norcold.

Since we were going to spend some extra days in Tucson we decided to go out to the Arizona Desert Museum. They have all kinds of cacti over the mile and a half walking trail.

They also have a variety of wild reptiles crawling around. Wayne found one for me to come see.

This little fellow was very friendly and both Wayne and I were able to get very close.

There were gardens for bees, moths, and butterflies. This is the butterfly garden and if you look closely you will see one in the upper left quarter of the picture.

This is also the area where the Segura cactus grow and as you can see they get very tall.

This is the sculpture outside the aviary. It shows the presumed evolution of our current birds.

Here are a few of the birds that we saw.

The had a separate aviary for humming birds. We were able to observe two hummers in their nests.

The mountain lion was getting out from the heat but he did look up and Wayne got a really good picture of him.

They also had several big horn sheep.

The Mexican wolf was also trying to stay cool under this tree.

These Mexican parrots were in an area all by themselves.

As we exited one of the indoor exhibits there was an area where you could dig through the mine dumpings to see if you could find anything of value.

Wayne also made friends with a squirrel.

One of the inside exhibits had reptiles in it.

As usual I took a lot more pictures so if you want to see more you can see them here: http://picasaweb.google.com/marynelle/DesertMuseum?feat=directlink.

Hopefully the next time I write we will be in California.