Tuesday October 17th 2017

It is hard to believe it is the second half of October already. I had a few days of Fall at the Grand Canyon, but here in Lake Havasu AZ the weather is more like summer. After getting down into the sixties overnight the temperature got back up to 95 degrees this afternoon.

Lake Havasu with many little water fowl floating and diving. There were many similar flocks on the lake.

I sat outside in the shade of the RV reading for most of the day. It was comfortable out of the sun. The boating action on the lake would catch my attention from time to time. I don’t know if it’s the surrounding mountains or very big engines, but the noise from some of the boats can’t be ignored. The part of the lake in front of the state park is the approach to the channel that goes under London Bridge so there is a lot of traffic. Most of the watersports activity seems to be in other areas of the lake.

Closer view of some of the diving birds.

In between chapters of the book I did some exploring of the park. The Lake Havasu State Park is a mile or more piece of land along the shore of the lake to the north of the channel under London Bridge. It has several boat launching areas with very large paved parking lots. The campground, a day use area and large areas of open desert land separate the launches and parking lots. A primitive trail runs along the lake with a few curves inland connecting all of these areas. Only one of the boat launching areas seemed to be in use today.

A prepared desert habitat area in the state park.

It was nice to spend the day doing very little. Tomorrow I’ll get out and see what’s changed since last spring. I visited this area in April on my way north. At that time it was transitioning from snowbird season to summer. Now it is transitioning back to snowbird season.