Big Bend - Day 2

Saturday, April 2 - We did not sleep well last night because it was so warm (hot), so this morning we moved over to the public campgroound which has electricity, and we have our a/c cranked!  We took a 140-mile drive in the car today, over most of the roads accessible by car.  Big Bend looks a lot like Arizona, so although it's pretty, it is not that impressive to us, especially since it also has Arizona's heat!  I think the heat wave that hit there Thursday/Friday has arrived here.

We drove all the way down to the Rio Grande River, but it is pretty small and shallow at this spot, the Santa Elena Canyon.  They do rafting trips through this canyon, and in fact, we saw some people on rafts, but one guy got and walked and the water was only about knee-deep in the middle of the river.

This Canyon is pretty and it looks like the river turns here, and cuts through these steep canyon walls.

There is a hiking trail here too but we didn't think we could stand that much exercise.  It was near 100 degrees by now.

We did see another roadrunner, but no other wildlife.
We stopped at the Chisos Basin Lodge, which is a higher elevation, and the temperature was back down about 85.  We had lunch here while I posted my blog from yesterday.  We had a nice view from the lodge, and there is a rock formation called the "window" which gives views of mountains beyond.  It's hard to see in this picture, but it was a pretty view.

On our way back to the campground, we had a view of this very pretty ridge, which I could see from my kitchen window at the campground we were at last night.

When we got back to camp, the car registered 101, but it had been as high as 102 a few minutes earlier.

This is way too hot for us.  Tomorrow we are heading to the Seminole National Historic Park near Del Rio.  We surely hope this hot spell gets ahead of us.