Of course there were the usual educational talks and demonstrations at Quartzfest on these days, but it is not all business and classes. There are other fun things that go on as well. This man is testing some new updated equipment and is telling us about it and requesting that people come to his rig to try it out. When he goes home, the equipment will be installed on a mountain top for all in the area to use. There is Tai Chi every morning and craft projects several times throughout the week.
We put up a hummingbird feeder on the back ladder on our trailer. It was amazingly already attracting hummers within 20 minutes after it went up. At home, it sometimes takes many days, even a couple weeks, before the birds find a newly installed feeder. We were really surprised at how quickly they came to our feeder out here in the middle of the desert.
I like the photo on the left, below. Earl was able to get the hummer eating “on the fly”. I think it looks like a giant dragon fly. Look closely at the wings against the white RV in the background. They are moving so fast that the camera had several flaps of his wings in one shot.
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Tuesday was a shopping day. It was a morning that was left free from planned activities so that attendees could go to the RV show in the Big Tent in town or do whatever they wanted. In the afternoon, there was a cast iron Dutch oven cooking class. Items they made were eaten at the potluck that night. We don’t do cast iron cooking, so we went into town in the afternoon on Tuesday.
You can find almost anything in Quartzsite. Here are some photos that we took in the sales area of Tyson Wells. It is just a small sample of what is available. If you are a rock hound, this is the place for you. Tons and tons of geodes, gems, minerals, fossils, and probably whatever you are looking for are here. Large and small booths have all sorts of items for sale from jewelry and jewelry making supplies to tools,
decorative items like wall hangings of animal trophies to iron work and pots,
clothing, hardware, carvings, artwork and food for lunch or snacking.
If you can’t find it in Quartzsite, it probably doesn’t exist.
After shopping, we met our friends Sharon and Scott and Scott’s brother and his wife, who all happened to be in Quartzsite too, for dinner at a new restaurant in town called the Stagecoach Restaurant. It had very good food and we enjoyed visiting with our friends during our dinner.
Tomorrow will be an early day. There is an off road trip back into the hills of the desert north of Quartzsite that has been planned for any of the Quartzfest attendees who want to go four wheeling.
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