Wednesday 10-9-24 Day 30 - Friday 10-11-24 Day 32

Wednesday 10/9/24 Day 30 - Friday 10/11/24  Day 32

Bluewater Lake State Park, Stone Ridge Recreation Area, Prewitt New Mexico 

Spent 3 nights at this campground in a nice campsite with some trees, spread out sites and a lake.  We did some cycling, kayaking, hiking and reading.   






                        





Mating season for the tarantulas! They're out and about... this one was relatively small, by tarantula standards.

                                          





Two red Toyotas with Grand Design trailers



Took a paddle on Bluewater Lake. Beautiful



                                      









Another Blue Lake paddle vid









Tons of Bird nests...



Before we left we stopped by the dump station and then filled up our fresh water tanks...

But, stupid me, I used the water at the dump station whose icon clearly states it's non potable...

So we dumped all that water and filled with potable water.

I suspect it's all the same water as we're quite a ways form civilization and I can't imagine that they ran two waterlines out there - one potable and one not.

And we have two stages of water filters down to .5 microns as well as a UV filter for our drinking water. As I write this, that was almost 3 weeks ago and we've been fine.

Headed east on I40 to Albuquerque NM and the Balloon Fiesta 2024!!







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