White Tank Mountain Regional Park

We are at the moment at a park in Tonopah, Arizona and our friends Sharon and Doug Dixon are staying up in the White Tank Mountain Regional Park, which is only 45 minutes away so we decided to go pay a visit and take a little walk into the Waterfall(which is dry until it rains)

Here we are part way up in front of the Petroglyphs

Some of the Petrogylphs, there were lots going up the trail.

We climbed up into a canyon

Here it is hard to see but the dry waterfall that would end up in this little pool

Just us

A clump of cholla glowing in the sunshine

Doug and Sharon like to feed the birds

 
And the little fellow that liked the peanuts. It was a lovely day.

Jones genealogy

 First visit to the Bethany Pioneer Cemetery where we were looking for our great grandfather John Rockmore Jones.

Just about had the whole cemetery covered when we finally found him. The cemetery is in the Howell Prairie area where the Cox family lived, the Cox's are Johns' step grandparents. The only family member I found in the cemetery was Lewis Napoleon Jones, Stephens' brother. I think but could not find Melvina Miller who is John Jones' mother in law should have been there as well.

 On the other side of town I was given the plat map to the original 640 acres that Stephen Jones was given in 1850 under the Oregon Donation Land Act. The following pictures are some of the property where our great grandfather grew up. The land was sold about 1874 after Stephens second wife Mary Cox died to man named John Mozier.

Enjoy the pictures, it gave me such an amazing feeling.

 The road runs straight through the property.

 Very close is the cemetery that Uncle Percy is buried, Percy is Pops(Roy) brother.

A day at the ocean

We decided to spend a day over on the ocean and headed out toward Tillamook and the cheese factory.

We took the tour of the factory, so many people a very popular place and tasty cheese.

Then it was off to the Three Capes Scenic Drive.

First stop Cape Mears.

It was windy but quite warm.

Then Cape Lookout.

 Last but not least Cape Kiwanda

 A very nice day out.

And we are off

Hello everyone, yes here we go, another year south. A little different route for us this year as we are going to Oregon for the first ten days and then California. We have travel partners this year, Rienk and Lona Rienks, looking forward to our adventures.

Our first lunch spot the Chief Joseph Dam,

 Ron beside one of the old turbines.

 It was a cool gray day but it did not dampen our spirits.

Last pit stop on the Columbia River.

Day out exploring

 Ron and I got up this morning and decided to go exploring for some new fishing lakes in the area.

The first lake we went to was called Mizzezula west of Princeton, nice little forestry campground but the mosquitoes were fierce, we ate our picnic lunch in the truck.

Along the way in we saw a moose and quite a big black bear.

 But at the lake just a bunch of butterflies having a meeting.

 The lake is quite long but narrow.

 Next on to Kentucky which is a Provincial campground and the campground was quite lovely..

I loved the color of the lake..

.In the same park area is Alleyene Lake, with again more campsites

Between the two lakes are two small ponds and the fishery were dumping 1000 trout into just one pond.

They were very informative, said this park gets very busy for fathers day so they were stocking all the lakes.

Well okay we got a little sidetracked, on the Otter Lake road we saw a road that was named Brookmere road and Ron said he worked with a couple old timers that had worked the Kettle Valley Railway. It was 15 kms in on quite a rough gravel road but we finally found Brookmere.

There were still signs of the railway history like this old water tower.  One of the streets was called Roundhouse Rd and another Conducter Wye....quite cute.

There were a few homes with people living in them but otherwise it was like a ghost town.

On our way out we found a nice little brown bear, that decided to escape by climbing up the tree.

He finally gave up and said he was out of here.

Very nice day, finished by hitting the Brown Bridge Pub in Princeton for wing night....35 cents a wing and so delicious.

Palatki and Honanki Sinagua Indian Ruins

 Today we visited Sinagua Indian Ruins,both sites were amazing.

The first stop was Palatki, set in the red rock moutains the backdrop was spectacular.

The Palatki site once had 20 rooms and was a very lush environment.

The petroglyphs were so vivid.

 What it looks like around the site.

 Then over to Honanki which is about 4 miles away.  This site was much bigger, probably had over 70 rooms and over 200 people.

 A miracle we can still wander around without guides.

 Lots more petroglyphs but here we see a lot of graffiti which dates back to the early 1900's, I guess they did not know what they had here.