Came to Fortuna Lake, a boondock campground on BLM land in Fortuna AZ. Just a ways outside Yuma. It’s a pretty small lake, more like a pond. It is surrounded by the deep green vegetable land of Yuma County which grows the big majority of lettuce in the US.
Once here we found a spot that’s not on the water. Almost all the waterside spots are occupied. That’s OK, the water quality isn’t so good that we want Skye swimming in it anyway. The lake is used as a storage pond by the ag land around it, water recycled for irrigation and runoff comes back here. So we’re told. When we got here we talked for a while with Dan from Michigan. He’s a full time camper with a pick up and tall cap on his truck. Everything he owns is in the truck. 1-1/2 years on the road. Seems quite happy. Medically retired with 4 grown kids & 10 grandkids, widower, yup we talked for 20 minutes and got all that.
Walked around the lake, met a few others. Plenty of old campers and a few newer. A bunch of Canadians from both coasts. Talked with some Quebec folks and some BC too. Several dogs. Skye didn’t get nearly enough play time with them.
We'll probably be here for 5 nights.
There have been planes overhead often this evening. It has occasionally sounded a bit like spray planes, but they don’t work at night! Then we took Skye out for her last walk of the night and saw one such plane. It was flying low at the far end of the ag fields with the landing lights on. Low and powerful. But then the lights went out as it rose. A night spray plane? Nothing I ever heard of. It flew over us, saw our flashlights and on came the bright lights again until it was over us, then dark again. Let’s see, Mexico is 22 miles away as the crow flies, that has just GOT to be the Border Patrol!
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