Refuge Day

We started the day at the Chula Vista Nature Center in the Sweetwater Marsh NWR.  Technically, we started in their parking lot, waiting for the shuttle (the only way in), which upon being dumped off, Rod realized he forgot his wallet, so we rode BACK to our car and BACK to the refuge.  We got to know the driver pretty well!  They had a ray touch tank, sharks, sea turtles, nonreleasable raptors, the endangered light-footed Clapper Rail.  It was pretty neat.

There was a trash to art exhibit - whale bones

 We hiked some of the trails next.

 After finishing up, we decided to return to a different part of Tijuana Slough NWR for some more hiking.  We ended up hiking right along the Mexican border.  Border patrol agents were all around.  Here is a bull fighting ring in Mexico.  You can see the border fence too.

 Then we decided to return to a different part of the refuge, where we'd hiked the previous day.  That's still Mexico, behind Rod.

 He wanted to go off trail for a picture.  Big mistake.

Right beside a naval base - hundreds of helicopters, it was so loud

Cholla - oops

We decided to call it a night.  Rod finally got his Chili's dinner.