Ash Meadows and Amargosa Opera House

So today our destination was the Amargosa Opera House in Death Valley Junction for a Sunday afternoon preformance. But first a wonderful detour.

Ash Meadows, National Wildlife Refuse looks pretty dry and barren here but when you come upon the Crystal Resevoir you would think it looks like heaven.

Here is Lona at the sign entering the park.



We first took a right turn out to see the Devils Hole, which was just that a hole protected for its valuable scientific research but was a nice walk in. At the bottom of the dark hole was a pool of water with Pup fish in it.

There was a really nice boardwalk out along the refuse.

When you get to the end you come across the most beautiful blue waterhole. Colors here do not do it justise it was the most beautiful blue.


Now headed toward Death Valley Junction we come across the Longstreet Casino and they had some pets.

Marta Becket is the lady who the opera house is all about. She left the east coast very early in life and found

this old opera house and knew she could bring it alive. She was a dancer and painter and in her early years preformed at the Opera house, today at her stage she tells you all about her preformances, it was very entertaining, we think she is about 86.

She personally painted the whole opera house on the inside, it took six years from 1968 to 1974.

Even the ceiling.

The inside of the opera house is painted as if it is a huge opera house with people sitting in the galleries;

After the preformance we went over to the attached hotel and had a look through some of the rooms that she had also done some paintings.

Doesn't it look just like a closet.

This room was decorated in honour of Red Skelton who stayed there many times.

We went to the attached restaurant and had the best piece of pie, oh what a wonderful day.