Tucson Links
San Carlos
Cross-Border Adventure!
El Pinacate
The Seri Coast
Adobe Doobie-Do
Desert Cats
Obscene Cactus Flowers
Tucson at Dusk
Hikes in the Santa Catalina Mountains
Hikes in the Tucson Mountains
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
The Borderlands: Arivaca
The Borderlands: Atacosa
Sonoran Summer
Monsoon!
Valley Fever
The Cat Mother of Coronado Heights
Swim the Desert
 
Is it because water is rare in the desert that our lakes and streams seem so magical?

Tanque Verde tumbles out of the mountains in the saddle between the Catalinas and the Rincons. The pools lined with striped gneiss are irresistible on a hot summer's day.

How the heck did this tern end up at our favorite lake in southeastern Arizona? We figure he must have blown in with a storm from the Gulf of Mexico. This is the only place I've ever lived where the weather comes from the northeast.

In 1928, prospectors drilling for oil east of Mount Graham struck hot water instead. Today the abandoned wells are home to two rather elegant hot tubs in a very remote stretch of desert, 20 miles from nowhere.