Sunday, March 9, 2014 (Lake Havasu City, AZ)

Today was the last time we will be attending Hilltop Community Church here in Havasu.  We've really enjoyed the sermons.  Today after the sermon, they had some of the children from their Learning Center School come in and sing a couple songs.  Little kids are so cute, some are so shy and don't like the attention and others are very animated and love the attention.  It was a very cute way to end our last visit for the season.

After lunch and a phone call from my mom, we decided to take a drive north of town and check out some of the boondocking or dry camping spots that we've seen from the road.  In Arizona you can camp on BLM land for up to 14 days with no camping fees, of course there are no facilities or water.  This spot can be seen from the highway and still had a fair amount of campers.

Boondocking north of Havasu - this was pretty much like a big dry gravel parking lot, not really our cup of tea.

Another angle of the many boondocking campers.  Some of the rigs are pretty large but we wouldn't want to bring our rig out on these rough roads....

When we were driving back to our resort, I noticed another gravel road that looked interesting so we decided to check it out.  It was another boondocking spot but the camping was 1 mile up the road.  The road looked pretty smooth so we decided to explore.  This area was much nicer and we even tossed the possibility of bringing the tent out and spending a night under the stars, not sure we'll get to it before we leave at the end of the week.  Here are some pics of the "Craggy Wash" boondocking camping area north of Lake Havasu.

These hills had some real pretty colors

Some real interesting rock formations

More interesting rock formations

And another....bet the stars are incredible out here at night away from the city lights

A big group of campers, notice they almost all have solar panels on their roofs. 

It really was a pretty place and I can see why people would camp out here, of the two places, we would choose this last boondocking spot.  The pic above shows a group of campers, but there were lots of places up the road where you could pull off the side of the road and be all by yourself. 

Earlier in the day we saw this plane flying over the resort and throughout the afternoon we could see it flying over and around  the lake.  Lake Havasu City is one of the top Spring break locations in the country and Saturday when we were down by the London Bridge we could see a lot more young people hanging out in boats along the channel.  At one point we saw a boat that had over a dozen kids on board.  The sheriff patrol actually pulled them over and we could see them checking for life jackets and apparently they satisfied the sheriff because pretty soon they pulled away and headed out to the open water with all the kids aboard.  Apparently for the next 3 weeks it gets pretty crazy down by the water, the locals all know to stay away from the water and the restaurants.   We've never seen this type of banner flying around Lake Havasu City so assumed it must be a message for all the spring break kids......

the small print reads "real good sex"....Have you ever seen anything like this before?  Yikes.....