Have made my way to Roswell, New Mexico and am staying at the Bottomless Lakes State Park. Roswell seems to be a green belt on the Pecos River that is surrounded by desert, much like Blythe and Needles are to the Colorado River in California. The park is composed of eight water filled sinkholes. Lea Lake (in second picture above) is the only one that allows swimming and is the one where the rv sites are. The lake is not bottomless, rather 90 feet deep. Cowboys gave it the name bottomless when they could not reach the bottom with rope.
On the road leading to the park, usually see some antelope grazing. In the bottom picture you can see one eating cactus, that’s not it’s tongue! It is great that they are able to do this, as it is a very harsh environment, but there is a lot of cactus around.
About 15 miles from Bottomless Lakes Park is the Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge. Nice refuge that is working to conserve wetlands in the southwest desert. There were quite a few beautiful, fluorescent ibis’.
