This is the second time we have stayed at St. David RV Park.
We like it for several reasons. It has two really nice little lakes where you can fish for bass and bluegill fish (although we didn't fish while we were there.) It is also only about 35 miles from my brother's home, so we get to visit with him.
It really carries the southwest look throughout the park. The club house is all stucco and has a real Spanish feel to it.
Instead of trailers and cabins for rent, they have "casitas" for rent. They sit up on the hill and have a really good view.
We parked up on the hill, a bit of a walk (or ride) from the entrance, the lakes, and the clubhouse, so we got quite a bit of exercise. We ended up buying a couple of bikes from some members there. It was a really good deal for two bikes, a bike rack, a cover, a pump, a couple of extra tubes, and other miscellaneous stuff. Terry has been kind of wanting his own bike, after having our tandem for at least 15 years! (He said he was tired of carrying my weight, but he sometimes has a hard time keeping up!)
We rode to town one day and bought oranges from the vendor along the road. It was a little tricky packing them home.
Our friends, the Manwarings from Emmett, met up with us again at St. David. They had actually been in a park about 8 miles away the week before and we rode our bikes to their park once (that was 16 miles round trip!) It was nice when we were in the same park and parked right next to each other. We enjoyed bike rides and other activities with them.
There are no sunsets more beautiful than some of the sunsets in Arizona!Hike in Saguaro National Park
We got to try out our new walking sticks we bought at the flea market in Mesa, when we went on a hike in Saguaro National Park with the Manwarings.
Russ and Louise are birders. It is always fun to go with them on hikes because we get to stop so often to look at birds. They are very knowledgeable and can usually tell what kind of a bird it is, even by just hearing their song. We even bring our own binoculars!
Here is one of the birds we saw, but I don't remember now what kind of a bird it was. I guess I will have to ask Russ.
There were lots of different kinds of cactus in this area--some we had never seen before.
This is a picture of a dead saguaro cactus rib. My mom used to make us drag these home to her cactus garden in Wikieup. This one would look really cool in her garden.
Here are three other cactus that seemed kind of different to us. Some of the saguaro had more arms on them than we had ever seen before.
There really is water in Arizona! Most of the river beds do not have water in them. This one had a little stream of water in it. We could see where it was coming off of the higher mountains as waterfalls. Holy Trinity Monastery
We decided to go for a ride one day and check out the Holy Trinity Monastery. We had seen it last year, but never went there. The Manwarings came with us.
They were building some new fences around different areas. They were quite unique.
This monument was at the entrance to the monastery.
They had some statues around the area, with benches were you could sit and meditate.
Around the Chapel, there was a cemetery. Most of the grave sites were a size where the caskets must have been buried on end. You had to walk though the grave sites to get around the Chapel.
This was a little gazebo-type place that was covered with a vine that covered the entire roof, kind of like a grave arbor.
We enjoyed walking through the meditation garden. Louise and I enjoyed resting a bit. I wonder what Terry and Russ are looking at? There were actually some very large orange and white gold fish--about three feet long-- and also some very large bass. (Sorry, guys, no fishing allowed!)
There were some large peacocks. One of the smaller ones fanned his tail feathers, but this large one wouldn't strut his stuff for us.
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