Wings over Willcox

Leaving the Hot Well Dunes was difficult we became accustom to soaking in the tubs but the Wings Over Willcox festival looked interesting.  Now anyone that knows me will probably be shaking their head and saying, Ron is a birder?  No, I'm not really but I am interested in all kinds of wildlife so I am going to not only learn about Sandhill Cranes but about the wildlife in general located here in Arizona.

So we leave here with a request from our hosts to stop at the Bowie Post Office and see when they will be having their music festival.  We arrived just after noon only to find the Post Office is closed for lunch.  We didn't have time to wait so just called Bud and told him that we couldn't get that information for him.

Willcox was only another 20 miles or so se we arrived with time to spare before our first seminar so we stopped at the Tourist Information Center and picked up some literature.   They sponsor several free seminars and we attended most of them and they also have several tours which we felt that they were all a bit expensive so we passed on those.  One in particular tour for hire was the Walking Tour of Willcox.  The cost was $15 per person!  You would think they would want to promote the downtown area, what a perfect opportunity to take the out of town people like us through the downtown area.  Take them into the stores and explain the history.  How many people would see something they like and either purchase on the spot or come back?  Another thought would to just post some information outside the store so us tourist could walk and read the history.

Ok, so I'm off my soapbox.  As I stated we attended a few Seminars.  On Friday we went to Sandhill Cranes 101 and it was very informative but the speaker needed to learn his topic and not read it to us, and he is a middle school teacher, poor kids.  Next was titled "Ambush on the Jaguar Trail" the speaker was excellent and his presentation composed from trail cameras was outstanding.  Just before this we met up with a couple people that we met at the Hot Well Dunes.  I wanted to go to one more seminar but we had time to go out for dinner first.  We went to the Rail Road Dinning Car for some BBQ, good choice it was excellent.  My last seminar was on Photography, I really need to invest in a better camera one of these days and really learn the fine details of it.

On Saturday we went to three seminars the first one on Snakes, then Bats and finally Lizards.  All the speakers were very informative and excellent speakers.   We had time to do the walking tour of Willcox using the free ligature that we picked up at the Tourist Information Building between the first and second seminar.

One of the stops on the walking tour was the old jail house.  With a little renovation this would be a fantastic stop on the walking tour.

 

 

 

 

By the end of the third seminar we had time to stop at the local grocery store and pick up a few supplies before it was getting dark so we just parked in a truck parking lot next to the Holliday Inn.  It was empty when we went to bed and only one truck when we woke up so I wonder why he felt it necessary to park right next to us and leave his engine running all night.  At least the end of the trailer was near the back of the trailer so the engine noise was not right next to us.