A Hike Through Thunderbird Park, November 11

David and Enid in front of saguaro cactus in Thunderbird Park

It is our 39^th wedding anniversary today. This morning we watched some video from this past fall that I’d edited, but we hadn’t yet viewed. Then we watched a slideshow from last November, our arrival and travel up the east coast of Australia, including a lot of beautiful pictures of fish and coral which we shot on the Great Barrier Reef.

After that we went for a hike in Thunderbird Conservation Park which is just a few kilometres to the west of us. We didn’t have a map which showed where the parking was, so we just drove in the right general direction, and got lost a couple of times in residential areas with no exit to the park before we found it. We hiked for about an hour, then ate our lunch, and then continued on the H3 loop hike that took us all around the north end of the park. It climbed up over a couple of large hills with good viewpoints overlooking Phoenix. This morning there was a lot of NO_x haze so a layer of brown gas covered the city to the south.

Last year we had our picture taken on our anniversary in front of a palm tree on the ocean beach in Australia. This year it was in front of a saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert.