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Saturday, June 27, 2009

Montezuma's Well

We decided to take a weekend and do some sight seeing before the school year started. One place we saw was Montezuma's Well. This is a sink hole in the middle of a dessert with an underground spring feeding it about a thousand gallons a minute. Two different settlements of indians lived here, both leaving and we don't really know why.  But it still flows, and the irrigation ditches that were built by the settlers is still in use today. Because of the underwater limestone the well is rich with carbon dioxide and as such no fish live in the water.

We weren't able to go down to the well itself but we were able to get pretty close. Off to the right there's a walk way that leads down to the base of the well. This is where the pit houses are. On the other side of the well you can see the cliff dwellings in the side of the cliff; very cool I thought.


Being June, we all got a little hot.


Even though it was hot, we were all having a good time.


Since we were all so hot, everyone took advantage of the irrigation ditches to cool ourselves off. There is a trail that leads you around the well to the "exit" point where the irrigation canals were built. Down in here it was very shady from the vegetation that grew all around the canal. 



Here's the path that leads down to the base of the well where the irrigation canal begins.


It was very pretty along the walkway, and it was a definite needed break from the sun beating down at full blast.

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