After resting on Thursday, we walked above the RV park across to Harrah's corner, then back down to the Colorado Belle Casino, where we had lunch at Pint's Brewery. Joan tried their Rehab Red Ale, which wasn't bad. It's tough to find red ales down here. She made a meal of potato skins without the bacon. John opted for a root beer float and had the Greatest Grilled Cheese Sandwich Ever. It had a few unusual ingredients like peppers. It was quite tasty, although a bit strong on the peppers. As usual, the orders were large enough to take half home for later. Our walk was about 4.7 miles, so fits in our 5 mile walk. It had a bit of elevation as well, so lunch was a nice break.
Monday, we finally walked across the river, then up towards the dam to Camp Davis County Park, which stretched north from the bridge to the dam. We discovered that the entrance is at the north end at the traffic lights, and that the closer entrances are only used for emergencies. We chatted with the staff, and found out that we can't get to the dam through the park. We had considered walking up to the dam and across to the west side. Apparently that might be possible by next year to do that. We saw a roadrunner by the office. It is there often.
We walked down to the river, along an exhibit for petroglyphs, describing the native Mojave people.
The park ends where the boom is across the river, preventing water traffic to the dam. When we got back to the bridge, there was a fisherman almost underneath trolling with his motor set just enough to match the current.
There appears to be an expansion to the bridge across the river here. They have started the frames for the supports.
We went to the booth for the London Bridge Jet Boat tours, and booked a trip for Friday, since they didn't have any people (of the 15 they need to do the trip) booked for Thursday. Then we stopped at Aquarius Casino where Joan found a visor for those days when we are in the sun longer than a few hours. We had milkshakes at McDonalds, the first one we have found in the area that has a machine working.
Tuesday, there were flash flood warnings for the area. In the evening, we had a thunderstorm, which took our satellite signal just below adequate for a picture off and on. This continued into Wednesday, with heavy rain again in the evening. We managed to do a few walks around the park, but put off a hike to another mine.
Thursday was cloudy again, with a few afternoon showers. We walked along the Riverwalk before they started. There was gravel washed down onto the sidewalk from the slopes above. One local commented that there was 3 months of rain in the last 24 hours.
We plan on spending another week, from Sunday, here to get stuff ready before heading south to Yuma area.
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