Elephant Butte Lake State Park

What a beautiful morning! No wind - go figure, we are leaving. However, Silver City will be back to wind advisories. We needed to get out of here and get a change of scenery even if we have wind. Our site was a pull-thru but we had to back out of the site.

The drive was uneventful as we headed to Elephant Butte Lake State Park that is a few miles north of the town of Truth or Consequences. There is nothing out here and no lights to take away from the beautiful star-lit sky. We had reserved our site for 4/1 through 4/8 but hoped that the site was available today so we wouldn't have to move tomorrow. Luckily, no one was in the site and we were able to get set up knowing we weren't going to have to move.

Take at look at the nice long site and pretty view of the lake we have from our site.

Nice view of the lake from the side of our rig. We've spotted White Pelicans out on the lake but they were too far away for a good camera shot.

Here is shot from the rear of our site. We have a nice ramada and picnic table on a cement slab.

We have a nice view down in to a wash. As we were sitting outside enjoying the sunshine (amid a breeze), we spotted a coyote on the far side of the wash and watched him make his way down into the wash headed for the lake. As we were watching him in our binoculars, he stopped and looked straight at us. That was kind of weird.

We met our camp hosts and were invited to a potluck on Saturday along with the other campers in the campground. Our hosts (Pat and Ed) are hoping that the wind won't be blowing (us too) . Right now, we are having strong winds out of the west with gusts up to 35 mph. Tomorrow, the forecast is more strong wind. Yikes. The forecasts for the next week appear that we will have a calm day followed by a blustery day and then repeat.

We also saw an Excel on the freeway heading south as we were heading north and have an Excel here in the park. Bonus day for Excel sightings.