Still in Ft Davis. Went to the Chihuahuan Desert Nature Center and Botanical Gardens. Toured the gardens and greenhouse. Amazing number of cacti and plants in the desert.
There was also a mining heritage exhibit and we talked a while with the “curator”, Joe Mussey. He was a former miner and flew in the Korean War. Joe had collected mining artifacts to preserve the history of the mines in the area. He was eager to share his knowledge and his exhibit was a work of love.
We ate in town at a Mexican lunch buffet, and then moved to the Davis Mountain SP campground. We rode bikes around the park and went up to a scenic overlook near sunset.
At 9:30 the McDonald Observatory held a weekly “star party”. We went and watched an outdoors presentation explaining some of the major constellations, stars and planets. Then the group was able to look through numerous telescopes that were set up. We saw Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and the moon. Also we were able to look at a couple of distance star clusters called M31 and M3.
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