Our Last Week in Desert Hot Springs

Well, the month is winding down, and we're due to head back to AZ next Tuesday.  We've really enjoyed our stay here and our visit with Bro Joe and Sandy.  We spent the first two weeks at Desert Hot Pools RV Resort, which used to be a Western Horizon Resort but was sold, like so many of the other WHR parks.  It has be fixed up, a bit, and is a great park with wonderful mineral waters.

Here's our site where we were parked for two weeks. I don't know how we got the only spot in the entire tree line where the Tamarisk trees were dead.  Still got a little shade and we could see through to the morning sun on the mountain.

Morning hikes in the desert were glorious.  The creosote bushes were actually brown this time of year for some reason.

After two weeks, we moved a stone's throw away to another hot springs park, Catalina Spa. This is one of our favorites; we really like the "adult" section and the desert hiking is really nice right outside the gate.

Our site here looks a lot like over at Desert Pools, but these trees are alive and provide shade most of the day.






Here is the pool at our adult section.  The hot spa is under the cover at the back.  The pool is 90 degrees.

Here is the large pool and spa and clubhouse at the upper end of the park.  We've never located up there; it's more family oriented (lots of kids).  In fact, that little round pool is the kiddie pool.

You can't say the views aren't great from the park.

We spent a lot of time just chillin'.

The wind does blow some here as you can see by the International flag display.




When we got settled in our spot, these two dogs came out from under the unoccupied house next to us.  Everyone called them "desert dogs" because the were strays; you couldn't get close to them.  The maintenance crew got a trap and caught them so they could be taken to the shelter and adopted out.   Happy ending, we hope.

While we were at Catalina Spa, I got together with my old buddy from Beaverton, Pete, had a great day golfing over in Indio at the other end of the valley.

This week, we moved across the road to Caliente Spa, where Joe and Sandy are staying.  It's the classy park in the neighborhood.  Lots of real nice park model homes and a great clubhouse/pool area.

Here is the view from the other side of the clubhouse.

 Here we are parked again, this time no shade.

Right before we got here, they had a fire in the clubhouse so no men's locker room for a while.  There is a restroom and showers just a little from where we're parked, so no problem.  You can see the fire went all the way through the roof.

Here's a picture of the clubhouse at sunrise.

Here is an egret by the lake in the picture above.