POST #21-35 

We Return To White Tank Mountain Regional Park! 

  ...One Of Our Favorites ...and scorpions!!

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On February 28th we moved from Cave Creek Regional Park back to White Tank Mountain Regional Park, AZ  We got a spot with great views!  This what we see when we wake up in the morning!

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At night we can look down on the city lights of Phoenix...

We were at this park earlier, from January 11th to the 19th (Mikeys Birthday!)  It was a short drive from Cave Creek, about 45 miles with a stop at Costco for gas.  Here is a sped up Lo-Resolution video of part of the drive...

For the full Hi-Resolution video click HERE...  Rather than go over details about White Tank Mountain Park again we have attached a Link to our post of a few weeks ago with details about the park.  I also found some video from CAMPGROUNDREVIEWS.COM of the park that gives an idea of the campground...see it HERE.

It's been quite warm here at White Tank most days, with highs in the upper 80's!  And when it warms up in the desert, the desert creatures are out and about more.  We found several Scorpions....got these photos

Think this one is the Arizona Bark Scorpion, the most venomous scorpion in North America. The venom causes severe pain, numbness and vomiting lasting 24 to 72 hours.  These scorpions are nocturnal and glow under UV light.   We carry a UV flashlight with us to look for these creatures.  And we always shake out our shoes before wearing them.  For some reason they like to hide in shoes!

The desert reptiles are showing up a lot more in the warm weather.  we found this Desert Spiny Lizard on a rock near our camper...

This hawk was on the big cactus nest to our camp watching us and the boys in their tents...

It would be beyond the capabilities of these guys to haul off one of the boys...Bill and Ted are a couple of chunks!

They get so tired from layin around that they need a nap!

Whenever we come here to White Tank we like to drive over to the end of the runway at Luke AFB and watch the Jets take off and land.  Luke AFB is a major training base of the Air Education and Training Command (AETC), training pilots in the F-16 Fighting Falcon and the F-35 Lightning II.  Here is some video we put together of the Jets...

Full resolution video of the jets can be found HERE.

We are here at White Tank until March 10th, when we will be moving to a place we have visited, but not yet camped at, Tortilla Flat Campground.

Until Next Time!