Currently we're living at Crystal Crane Hot Springs RV Park south of Burns, OR. The water was 102 degrees today. It comes out of the ground at 180 and the tower thing in the picture is for cooling it down. The pond is lined with spiky gravel and is pretty shallow, like a big bowl. My favorite way to enjoy the pool is to ride/float on a noodle. The hot water is awesome.
They have cute little cabins that can be rented as well as tent camping, RV hook ups and even the teepee with a hot tub in the middle. The building on the right has private bathtubs. We met two couples from Denmark here two days ago! It amazes me. We are truly in the middle of nowhere and here are these great Danes! CCHSRV is well worth a trip.
In addition to soaking, floating, luxuriating in the hot water, there's all kinds of interesting birds, including yellow headed blackbirds, black bodied redbirds as my dad used to call 'em, burrowing owls, avocets, terns, egrets, etc., etc. Some lady yesterday tried to convince me that the bird we were watching was a sandhill crane but I think she was high on the sulphur fumes.
Interesting things I've learned here:
1. about the only thing that will get rid of sagebrush is watering it but everything else grows like crazy when it's watered.
2. When all the water starts out warm and you let the cold water faucet run to get it a little cooler, it just warms up.
3. Carp are taking over Malheur Lake and are affecting the bird life there. They muddy up the water and the birds can't feed. Apparently the birds are doing a fly-by! The solution they're trying is commercial fishing. They have a huge fishing boat on the lake; they're netting the carp and hauling them off in dump trucks to a fish fertilizer plant. Hopefully they'll knock the crap out of those carp! I think it's a smart approach to a nasty problem.
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