This round pool in the foreground is a storage pool for some of the natural, hot-spring water. This geothermally heated water comes out of the ground at about 180 degrees Fahrenheit.
Our KOA has a restaurant. That's a pretty practical thing as we are remote from just about anything. Niland is 8 miles away and has a small grocery store, but no restaurants. The nearest cities would be Brawley, about 40 miles south, and Palm Desert, about 40 miles north.
Can you tell from the landscape that we're in the desert?
One of the swimming pools in operation. Three others are under construction.
The desert version of a KOA "hay ride". Things are the same all over, even while being different.
Part of the Halloween parade.
Many of the snow birds here have some sort of a golf cart for getting around. Such vehicles are needed because the campground is quite large.
Pat and Dave with our employers, Cal and Roslyn Loewen.
Pat working one of the games at the Halloween party.
Lots of area for walking. This lake, which is fed by a HOT spring, is only a few hundred feet north of our homesite. The water coming in is hot, but the lake water feels a lot cooler.
The water is not too hot for fish. We saw several large catfish and tons of tilapia.
This is a defunct tropical fish rearing pond just north of our homesite. There are several of these ponds.
Discharge pipe from one of the hot springs. Water is way too hot to touch. Its presence here has fostered at least two other hot spring resort spas within sight of the KOA. We might be in the middle of nowhere, but there is a huge tourist destination business plan at work here. And here, of course, is where we are.
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You may have hot springs in CA, but we have hot cocoa in MN!!
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