Going for a Ride... Part 2

This is the first thing we saw when we got up

the next day at about 6:15... Yippee

This is why we came to the high country.

And we took a different route home and did

some geocaching along the way.  

 These trees are similar to Jeffery Pines, but are a variety

of Ponderosa Pine here in AZ.  They grow in the high elevation and

if you happen to see one (which you will recognize by

the color of the bark) and if you put your nose close 

to the bark it smells like Vanilla... go figure!!!

So sit back and enjoy the ride...

 

Your guess is as good as mine.

I prefer it when they tell us where we are going 

and what we're going to see.

This is what the road looked like as we headed

down into the Salt River Canyon one more time!

 

Fortunately I was on the bank side and not 

the cliff side.

Once you cross the bridge there is a great rest

stop that gives you a good

look back at the new bridge from the old bridge

which allows the pedestrians a great view of

the new bridge

and an opportunity to look

up river and marvel at the road along the 

edge of the distant mountain that you just came down.

Ahhh  now we know where we're headed as we 

climb out of the canyon.

 

Some old buildings caught my eye so Don had

to make a quick u-turn so we could check out Seneca AZ

In  the early 1970s the San Carlos Apache tribe, 

opened a large restaurant, trading post and 

campground on this site, with electrical hookups.  

 In the future, there were plans for

 an 80-unit motel, golf course, riding stables

 and other amenities.

It all cost about $534,000 and unfortunately didn’t 

last long.  Later in the ‘70s, the tribe defaulted 

on the loan and the dream died. Lenders quickly took

 back the restaurant etc.

Vandals and nature took over and went right to 

work. Today there is nothing left to see except for a 

few ruined, vandalized buildings.

Google Seneca Lake AZ for more info.

As we continued west it was time to geocache.  A series 

of 5 or 6 on the right hand side of the road.  There was also

another part of the series on the other side of the

road (if you were heading north).  

Don will get those next time.

The geocaching app on the cell phone tells us

we're pretty close, about 24 feet. 

I spotted it under a bush... see that blue thing?

It's Don job to do the dirty work... getting

down on his knees and retrieving the cache

and signing the log.  Looked for 5 found 4.

Remember yesterday I was looking for Elk,

well this is the best wildlife shot I got.

That 1" frog lived in here but Don didn't find the cache. 

THE END