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Day 51 and 52 - Quartzsite

Another fabulously sunny and low wind day. The sun is so much warmer feeling here than at home. 78 degrees at home and we'd be just on the edge of ok in shorts, if no wind. Here it's 78 and light wind and we were so sweaty we put out the awning (2nd time the whole trip - and expect the rest of the time here to need it). Is this significantly warmer feeling because of elevation (we're not that much closer to the sun here) or is it low humidity?

Speaking of elevation - we found an app that tells you the elevation where your phone is at that minute. We've known it's uphill from the town of Quartzsite to where we've been most of our days here (in January and this round).  Today we found just how much.  Cool app. And btw - at home our elevation is about 659 feet.

And yet another even more alone camp location was found - this time on a hike. We go late in the afternoon after racing to finish up work. This means if we don't find our way directly back we add some time and get back close to dark. Usually who cares as we'll eventually find the motorhome, but today we wanted to break camp and move to the new location (just further away from that bumpy road we always talk about) when we could see where to go to not fall in a wash. Of course on today's hike we misjudged the uphill angle we needed in order to get straight back through the washes and had to walk back 15 minutes or so on the road.  Just to be us we managed to make it to the new place after the sun was down but before it was dark, dark. But my running shoes and hand weights which had been drying outside all day (see Day 9), were left so we ran back to get them. 

An amazing thing has been happening this week - we told you that there are wonderful bird noises since we came back to Quartzsite but even cooler, they chirp and warbble and sing all night long.  We have never ever heard birds after  dark. Every place we've been, every house we've lived in, the birds start chirping about an hour before dawn. So every time we wake during the night we think it's about time to get up. Not saying this is wonderful.  It's actually weird. We apparently need a post on all the weird things we've experienced.

After dinner the emails and texts started rolling in from churches and choirs I participate in canceling rehearsals and warning that there may not be services due to snow and ice predictions in a few days. It's been colder and higher precip all over the country this winter so we've seen these emails from Missouri more times than usual. Today, though, we actually paid attention. The forecast shows the day we'd just set to arrive home (2 days after 6 inches of snow and ice,  a low in the single digits and a high of 20) would be warmer but still below freezing couple more nights. This prediction covered much of the trajectory of our drive home, which means we'd have to drain water,  dump holding tanks and then have ramifications of that. Plus, it's finally now warmed up to normal temps in S AZ, making it even sadder to go home to way below normal at home. We debated skipping the rehearsal we were going home for but we knew we had a hard stop on the date we have to get the new motorhome licensed (see Day 15) so we're pushing the limit on that date and coming home just in the nick of time. Those extra 2 days here in the warmth will allow us to get home to above nighttime freezing and highs in the 40s (still rather have the upper 70s, low 80s - but the growing list of outdoor work and event responsibilites is calling us).

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We had planned that our next trip would head south with the idea to explore places that we hadn’t seen or been too for a number of years. I had told Sarah that I didn’t want to drive any further than Taupo on the first day although if she wanted to stop elsewhere on the way that was OK with me as well. Sarah remembered an article in a recent edition of the Motor Caravanner that mentioned a DOC camp just north west of Taupo at Whakaipo Bay. (#3333 in directory) The article shows a large open camp with nobody there close to the great lake.

We decided that we would head there since we have already stayed at both 5 Mile Bay and the NZMCA Park. The article mentions that the road down to the camp isn’t the greatest. Yes it is unsealed with the odd lump and bump but it has recently been graded and according to the locals we spoke too in a lot better condition than it used to be. Another reason for choosing to stay here is that fur babies are OK and we are again traveling with Mr Blobby (our 20 year old cat).

The camp is a long strip of land that runs parallel to the lake with a huge camping area to the right of the road and parking for day trippers on the left hand side. The first night here (Thursday) there were only 5 vans here it was hard to believe that we could be this close to one of the most popular tourist destinations in NZ and there be so few people here. It’s only a 15 minute drive into the main shopping centre.

We managed to squeeze between a couple of other campers located at either end of the reserve (no worries about 3 metres here) and get the awning out for a bit of shade from the sun. With barely a breath of wind and temps in the high 20’s it was like a mid summers day.

There was a group from one of the local schools staying at the Girl Guide Camp located here and they were all down at the beach enjoying a swim when we arrived. By the sound of the squeals of delight they appeared to be having a great time.

It was hearing the kids that gave us confidence to test the waters. I have never swum in this lake and Sarah thinks it’s probably 40 plus years since she has but it just looked much to inviting not to take the dip. The water was much warmer than either of us expected and a very relaxing dip was had. The only negative is there is an infestation of algae covering the lake floor which when disturbed floats to the top of the water. However once in and out a bit deeper it wasn’t really a concern.

I missed getting a photo of the magnificent sunset the first night just getting to the beach as the redness was vanishing from the sky.

As well as being an area for campers this is also a recreation reserve with walking and cycling tracks located at the far end of the reserve. There was a steady stream of traffic heading to and from the track creating quite the dust storm on the pumice based road.

Not having used the bikes for some time and both having lost a lot of fitness whilst I recovered from my chest biopsy we decided that now was the time to get back into it and broke the bikes out of the back of the motorhome. All I can say is that we were both very pleased to have E bikes to assist with the hill climb, although there weren’t any very steep uphill sections it did continue to climb for most of the 7.8kms to the top. We didn’t need to use the power coming downhill though!!

The ride itself is a very pleasant track on a well formed trail that is shaded by the forest almost all the way. This does have to drawback that views of the lake are restricted to not much more than a peep here and there. Even the viewing area at the top is a bit overgrown reducing what would have been a magnificent view.

Had we been fitter we could have ridden all the way to Kinloch and whilst we would have made it there we wouldn’t have made it back. That can be a ride for another day when we are both a lot fitter. I should mention that although there was a lot of people coming and going we rode the whole ride without meeting anyone coming the other way.

We had initially planned to spend just the one night here but ended up staying three we both really enjoyed the place and although it got busier each night with 21 vans on the Saturday night there was space everywhere. What I don’t understand is when there is space everywhere why do some people insist on parking within a couple of metres of our vehicle, arriving after sunset and then talking in the loudest possible voices until 10pm. I guess we should be thankful they shut up when they did!

Would we recommend that you stay here – Absolutely!!!

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Heading South – First Stop Taupo We had planned that our next trip would head south with the idea to explore places that we hadn't seen or been too for a number of years.