High Chaparral / Casa Codorniz: Living by Lake Mohave in the Mohave Desert

High Chaparral / Casa Codorniz: Living by Lake Mohave in the Mohave Desert

Wintering in the Desert: The Snowbirds Return to Casa Codorniz Above Lake Mohave

Wintering in the Desert: The Snowbirds Return to Casa Codorniz Above Lake Mohave

Back in the Saddle Again: Exploring Old Mines by OHV in Arizona’s Black Mountains

Back in the Saddle Again: Exploring Old Mines by OHV in Arizona’s Black Mountains

Getting in An Afternoon On Lake Mohave Before Chilly Weather in Mid November 2025

Getting in An Afternoon On Lake Mohave Before Chilly Weather in Mid November 2025

Back in the Saddle: A Desert Adventure to the Tyro Mine Overlook

Back in the Saddle: A Desert Adventure to the Tyro Mine Overlook

Smallmouth Bass Spawning: A Late April Adventure on Lake Mohave

Smallmouth Bass Spawning: A Late April Adventure on Lake Mohave

Mid-April 2025 Lake Mohave Bass Fishing

The desert morning greeted us with that peculiar stillness that only those who've spent time in the Southwest truly understand. As I sipped my coffee on the porch of our modest desert retreat in the foothills above Lake Mohave, I watched the sun crawl above the...

The Sonoran Desert in Bloom

There's something about the desert that speaks to my soul. Perhaps it's the stark contrast to my Kansas upbringing, where the rolling Flint Hills offered a different kind of beauty altogether. Out here in the Sonoran Desert during springtime, though... well, that's a...

Chasing Ghosts: A Mid-March Smallmouth Bass Adventure on Lake Mohave

Chasing Ghosts: A Mid-March Smallmouth Bass Adventure on Lake Mohave

Sunset on Mohave Lake View Ranchos

There's something about the way the light changes in the desert that reminds me of my childhood on the Kansas prairie. Different landscapes entirely, but that same vast sky, that same feeling of being small beneath an endless canvas of blue that slowly transforms into...

Colorado River Big Bend Conservation Area Mavic 2 Zoom

Colorado River Big Bend Conservation Area

Located South of Laughlin, Nevada the Big Bend Conservation Area is a partnership between the Nevada Division of Wildlife, Southern Nevada Water Authority, the Nevada Division of State Parks, and the LCR MSCP. The partnership began with the acquisition of a small...

Mushroom Rocks - Rocky Mountain National Park Hero 9

Mushroom Rocks – Rocky Mountain National Park

The Tundra Communities Trail to Mushroom Rocks is a good opportunity to stretch your legs and experience dramatic panoramic views of the Rockies. Best of all get a sense of how harsh an environment these mountain peaks are with a biting cold wind in the dead of...

Casa Codorniz April 11, 2021 Mavic Pro

Casa Codorniz April 11, 2021

Casa Codorniz is located in a small 60 acre subdivision in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area 6 miles from the Colorado River, Lake Mohave and 12 miles from Bullhead City, Arizona and Laughlin Nevada. Lake Mead National Recreation Area is a U.S. national...

Over-the-Top Lake Mohave Overlook Trail Hero 7 Mavic 2 Zoom Helix

Over-the-Top Lake Mohave Overlook Trail

A moderate/easy 4wd trail in the Arizona Black Mountain foothills to an interesting Lake Mohave/Bullhead City overlook. Lake Mohave is a reservoir on the Colorado River created in 1951 following the completion of Davis Dam near present-day Laughlin, Nevada, and...

Colorado River Lunch at Bubba Gump Pocket 2

Lunch at Bubba Gump

The Colorado River is one of the principal rivers in the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico. The 1,450-mile-long river drains an expansive, arid watershed that encompasses parts of seven U.S. states and two Mexican states. The Golden Nugget Hotel &...

Moki Dugway Pocket 2 June 8, 2021

Moki Dugway June 8, 2021

Pueblo Indians carved shallow hand and toe holds, or Moki steps, into rock cliffs to make a near vertical climb. The Moki Dugway, also a steep climb up a hillside, was not made by Pueblo Indians, but by miners to transport uranium. The Moki Dugway (also spelled Mokee...

Bass Fishing Lake Mohave April 19, 2021

Bass Fishing Lake Mohave April 19, 2021

Water temperature warming to the upper 60s and a few bass are still spawning. Beginning to see a few feeding with the warming water. Two state records have come from Lake Mohave; a 63 pound striped bass was caught in 2001 and a 16 lb 4 oz rainbow trout was caught in...

Bass Fishing Lake Mohave 04-15-2021

Bass Fishing Lake Mohave 04-15-2021

Overnight low air temperature of 55 degrees has the fish a little slow today. Water temperature dropped to the low 60's from upper 60's just a few days ago. The northern section of the reservoir is constrained by the steep rock walls of Black Canyon for a length of 22...

Palo Verde Bloom and Baja Fairy Duster

Palo Verde

The bark of a palo verde tree is green because it's filled with chlorophyll. Unlike most trees, this plant gets a lot of photosynthesizing done through its bark. According to The Arizona Native Plant Society, only about a third of the palo verde's food is produced by...

High Chaparral Morning Coffee

High Chaparral Morning Coffee

Cool April Morning, blooming Palo Verde and hot cup of coffee. Retired Mohave Desert High Chaparral living doesn't get much better! Palo Verde Trees commonly occur in the Southwest: the foothill, yellow or littleleaf palo verde (Parkinsonia aculeata ) and the blue...

Lake Mohave Smallmouth Bass Fishing 04-07-2021

Lake Mohave Smallmouth Bass Fishing 04-07-2021

Water temperatures are warming to the mid 60s and the Smallmouth Bass are becoming more active. Crystal clear water makes the sight fishing a blast! Game fish species include smallmouth bass, striper, largemouth bass, rainbow trout, bluegill sunfish, crappie, and...

Mohave Hunting Cave

Mohave Hunting Cave

A little over a mile down wash from a flowing spring this small cave was likely used by the Mojave Indians while hunting. Obsidian flakes, pot shards, smoke stains and rocks closing openings indicate Native American use. No evidence of other caves or habitation...

Smallmouth Bass Fishing Lake Mohave 04-02-2021

Smallmouth Bass Fishing Lake Mohave 04-02-2021

At 647-foot elevation, the Lake Mohave has a total storage capacity of 1,818,300 acre-ft, a maximum depth of approximately 100 ft, and just over 28,000 surface acres with roughly half of the lake found in Arizona and half in Nevada. Game fish species include...

Bass Fishing March 28, 2021

Bass Fishing March 28, 2021

Cottonwood Cove Resort & Marina located right in the center. It begins at Davis Dam in Bullhead City, Arizona and is just 14 miles east of historic Searchlight, Nevada, only 45 minutes north of Laughlin and an hour south of Las Vegas....

Black Mountains Cabin

Black Mountains Cabin

The Black Mountains of northwest Arizona are an extensive, mostly linear, north-south trending 75 miles long mountain range. It forms the north-south border of southwest Mohave County as it borders the eastern shore of the south-flowing Colorado River from Hoover Dam....

Red Lighthouse Lake Havasu

Red Lighthouse Lake Havasu

Replicas of real lighthouses line the shore of Lake Havasu, Arizona. This beautiful scene unfolded one sunset evening in December 2019. Each of Lake Havasu’s lighthouses is a 1/3 scale replica of a famous American lighthouses, and is not a true lighthouse but instead...

Bass Fishing Jade Green Clear Water of Lake Mohave

Bass Fishing Jade Green Clear Water of Lake Mohave

The best time of the year to fish for striped bass is April through November with the peak in October. For largemouth bass March through June is generally best and for rainbow trout anytime they are stocked (November through March) At 647-foot elevation, the Lake...

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Love Your Servitude – Aldous Huxley & George Orwell

Aldous Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly fifty books both novels and non-fiction works—as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems. In his most famous novel Brave New World (1932) and his final...