The Great Adventures of the Yamaha Viking VI
09-Apr-21

Group:
  1. Wild Cat 4 Seater: Mark, Greta and Pepper Sheridan
  2. Yamaha Viking VI: Gary and Gnettie Eisert, Jerry and Phyliss Witsken
We headed out to explore all the area around Bullard Pass, north of Aguila. We took one road too soon north off the county road and had to cross over to the first set of mountains. We stopped at a watering hole Jerry and Phyliss had marked from the air. The BLM put up these water collection areas for the animals.
   
34° 3.841'N, 113° 16.591'W Water collection area as seen from the air. Gang went through the fence to explore.
   
The Wild Cat and Yamaha. The desert is starting to bloom.
   
Took the road east of the tank over to the Bullard Pass road and turned north.
Junction 34° 6.928'N 113° 14.287'W Here we turned south west. Beautiful rock formations.
   
34° 5.514'N 113° 15.895'W
The road ended in a washed out wash, so we took a break. Greta did some metal detecting. Got a hit but it was too deep to dig. Need to come back here another day with a big shovel.		 Gnettie with Mark, Greta and Pepper.
   
Gnettie Rock Collecting Lots of saguaros.
   
Jerry and Phyliss, lunch time. The rest of the gang filling faces.
   
Took the road back to the Bullard Pass road and turned south so Jerry and Phyliss could see the big cactus that had fallen down. It was getting pretty hot, so we after the cactus viewing we decided to head back to the barn.
34° 7.536'N 113° 14.518'W This is what the big cactus looked like back in 2016 from the air. Today it has died and fallen over.