Wellton, Arizona

We took off this afternoon to explore the town of Wellton and the area, looking for any museums or sites of interest. There's really not much around here other than the railroads. There's a small grocery store and a Dollar store in town. Right now, it is heavily populated with wintering RVers. We counted 8 RV Parks in this little town, if you look at it from Google Earth it looks like a sea of flat roofs. Many of the parks are actually lots for sale as sites for motorhomes or park models. Some of them have nice brick fences built in the whole development around each lot. We only saw a couple of fairly nice houses in town, most of the rest looked like they were built in the fifties -- and weren't kept up too well.

On the other side of the freeway, there is a new develpment with an 18 hole golf course that has two fairly large lakes. There are several VERY nice houses built along the golf course with more under construction. There's a brand new strip mall with a grocery, pizza place, realtor, a couple of restaurants, etc. We bought a few groceries there. They had very little fruit -- no berries -- but I bought a nice whole chicken I stuffed and roasted for dinner.

The picture above is a cholla cactus in their little park. The one below shows the nasty little barbed pieces that fall off for the unwary person or animal to step on!

The next picture is of a cactus related to the prickly pear -- but with different shaped leaves. I've not seen this variety anywhere else.

We saw this beautiful gully full flowers outside of one of the RV parks. I think they be creopsis, but I have misplaced my SW flower book...

We saw this little guy along the road. I got a picture with my camera, but he's just a speck in the picture. This one is from Forry's camera -- he didn't have his big lens, but he got a pretty good shot of the road runner anyway.

Tomorrow we'll pack up and move on -- one more stop before we get to Dulzura!