Magnus the Mighty Motorhome takes us to Seminole Canyon, Day 5

Sat 18 Nov

Amistad Reservoir in the distance


It should have been an easy, lazy day in Seminole Canyon, but I wanted to take a day trip to check out the campgrounds on Amistad Reservoir. So we took a short Jeep ride over there.  I don't think I saw a single bird the whole time.  The campground we found was paved but didn't have electric hookups, plus the sites were very short.  There was a water fill faucet.  And the lake/reservoir was very low.

Between the lack of facilities, the low water level, and the highway noise, we wouldn't have enjoyed camping there very much. We could possibly make it work for a one-night stopover, but why?  It's not really on the way to anywhere...possibly you could call it on the route from Del Rio to El Paso, but that's not a route we're likely to ever want to travel.
 

On the previous day, Molly and I had walked along the 'canyon trail' which runs alongside one of the riverbeds there. Not the Rio Grande (we were a couple of miles upstream from that) and probably not the Pecos. It had been a very cool walk, but we'd turned around before reaching the scenic view.  The sun was getting low in the sky and we only barely got back before dark.

So on this day, after consulting the map, we left earlier for our walk and made it all the way out to the view. Molly alerted me to a ground squirrel of some sort living in the rocks halfway down in the canyon.  

Lovely walk.  (Except I chose to wear the "rain shoes" I'd bought for wearing in the springtime up north where it rains every day. They are indeed waterproof, but they're suckish for walking. My toes jammed up against the front at every step.)

I wished we could have gone on all the way to the Rio Grande, but that would have taken another two hours. Another time...sigh.