Along the Virgin River trail, Hurricane, Utah
Today is our last day in Hurricane. This morning we did the laundry, and I washed the Tahoe. After lunch we walked along the Virgin River trail. We didn’t get too far because we soon came to a spot where we would have had to ford the river, and we didn’t really want to do that. So at that point we turned around and walked upstream as far as we could go, until that trail also petered out.
Along the way though we spotted an area where they are protecting desert tortoises. There was a fence about five feet high topped with razor wire, and inside it many small pens divided up with wire netting, feeding or watering stations, along with pipes buried to make shelters. We wondered what they had there, a site of almost an acre, and then we spotted a tortoise out sunning itself. We stopped again on our return trip and saw three more (the one we’d seen originally was now inside the pipe). It was lucky that we spotted the one tortoise on the walk in, as otherwise we wouldn’t have know what the area was for, and wouldn’t have known to look for more.
The weather was beautiful again today. I went for a bike ride after we got back from the hike, then we both sat outside in the sun and read until suppertime. Tomorrow we are off to Zion National Park. We won’t have Internet access for several days, so this will be the last entry to the blog until we once more have wi-fi access.