wild wild west

We started the day yesterday in Tombstone - historic town from the gold and silver mine days of the old west. The place is super touristic and looks like it was taken from a western movie.

We saw a comedy gunfight show with the good guy and bad guy, some shooting and lots of laughs

From there we continued to Tucson area to visit Saguaro National Park. The park is known for it's huge Saguaro cactus. Those cactus are enormous and have special adaptations to survive in the dry desert. It takes them hundreds of year to become as tall as this
The Gila Woodpecker pecks holes in the Saguaro to make a nest. Other birds use those holes to make their own nests too


This morning we visited the desert museum. A wonderful museum that most of it is outdoors, features the desert wildlife, plants and their adaptations. There are many senior volunteers all around the museum that are excited to share their wide knowledge about nature.
Explaining about the bees and tasting some prickly pear jelly, cactus pads pickles, cactus juice and more

We saw a Harris Hawk free flight show. This species is not local to Arizona but they brought them here anyway, can't remember why (-:
Some other interesting things we saw at the museum