Saturday – February 25 – Today was our sunset dinner cruise. The cruise left at 4 so we left here a bit early so we could drive around a bit. To get to Lake Martinez we had to drive through the Yuma Proving Ground, then after driving about 11 miles through the desert we came to Martinez Lake which goes into the Colorado River.

It was a really nice cruise on a stern wheeler boat with a delicious dinner, the only disappointment was that it was a bit overcast so there really wasn’t a great sunset. We went around Lake Martinez and Lake Ferguson as well as down the Colorado River a bit, and the captain gave a very interesting talk most of the way. As Janet said, who would have thought we would be having dinner on a boat, in the middle of a lake in the middle of the desert. There were lots of ducks, egrets and other birds, plus we saw a lot of fish jumping. They had a fishing derby going and the main catch is bass, but we didn’t hear what the largest fish caught so far was.