On Friday morning, we watched Kevin Koe win the 1-2 game. We walked around the campground a few times, and along the grass edge between the trailers and range road, across from the driving range, we collected 10 golf balls Later that day, a golf ball thunked into the back of trailer. John went down to chat with campground operator. They can't do anything as the golf course preceded the campground, and they can't afford to put up a high fence. While I was talking to the host, Joan chatted with our neighbours, who are a family of Mennonites from Mexico who are here while working in the feeldlots for the winter.
Saturday after watching the USA beat Japan in the 3-4 game we did a tour of some campgrounds south of Lethbridge for possible future use. There was an unusual cloud formation this morning that looked sort of like a field that had been swathed
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| A small section of the rows of cloud |
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Covered Wagon in Mcgrath had a friendly host. There are at least 5 km of hiking trails accessible right from the park. McGrath Stake CG was still closed.
It took us a while to find Perrett Park in Raymond. The street that it is on, which is a new gravel road wasn't in our GPS. It is better price for full service, but has a limit of 7 days. It doesn't open until May long weekend. We continued on to Stirling were we found an interesting historical display.
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| Stirling National Historic Site |
The town was founded by Mormons who came in 1899 to work on the St. Mary's River Irrigation System, which opened up the south of Alberta to agriculture. The town is an excellent example of a plan that Joseph Smith had laid out for Mormon agricultural villages. It called for a one mile square town with 10 acres blocks with 132 foot wide streets. Each block was divided into 20 half acre lots. The farm buildings were located on the farms that surrounded the town. We walked down to the campground at the west end of town. It has 10 pw sites, similar to Raymond, but they are open at this time of year, but the water is not on yet. Once back in Picture Butte, we drove down to Coyote Flats Historical Village, which is still closed. It looks like it would be worth an hour or two if we are back in the area when it is open. In the evening, we watched the rain delayed Nascar race from Texas.
Monday after we returned to the Keho Lake Golf Course for the afternoon. This is the first time we have golfed since we left Alberta last fall. We have the golf bags in the truck, and forgot to dig the carts out of the storage under the trailer. We could have rented pull carts at the course, but figured we would remember to bring the carts next time if we carried our bags. They got pretty heavy by the end of nine holes.
In mid-morning on Tuesday we went into Lethbridge to do a 4 mile walk along both sides of the Oldman River from highway 3 to Whoop-up Dr through Helen Shuler Nature Reserve, Indian Battle Park, Bull Trail Park and Elizabeth Hall Wetlands. After walking along the east side of the river, we chatted with a couple by Whoop-up Dr to confirm that we would be able to get back to the east side of the river on the bridge on highway 3. Along the way, we saw a couple of woodpeckers.
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| Fort WhoopUp |
Wednesday we had lunch at the Cactus Bar and Grill in Picture Butte, which is owned by the campground operators. We had a good meal, steak sandwich with French onion soup, and a large caesar salad. Then we updated the Garmin GPS maps at the library.
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