We started our little get-away on Thursday when we drove to Tuscon to see the rodeo. This rodeo has been happening since 1924.
This was team roping. We were pleased to see several SD cowboys participating. Bull riding is my favorite event and yesterday the bulls won.
We drove to Benson last night and started our morning with a tour of Kartchner Caverns. The caverns were only discovered in 1974 and not opened to the public until the 1990s.
The two rather large caves are located in the two hills behind the buildings. Our cave tour was unlike any of the caves we have seen.
Then it was on to Bisbee where we saw what was left of the Lavender Pit, a large open pit copper mine that is no longer producing.
We took a tour of the non-operating Queen Mine, also a copper mine. This is an underground mine that at one time produced copper, gold, silver & zinc.
Our tour took us 1500 feet underground to learn about mining from the early 1900s to about 1975. Our guide was a retired miner. We wore yellow slickers, mining helmets and had battery packs with lights. That is what is in the ladies hand. We are passing through a timber reinforced section of the mine.
Then we drove onto Tombstone. We walked the streets with the other 100 people in town. Not many people were visiting Tombstone today.
We stopped at Big Nose Kate's Saloon for dinner and the local entertainment.
We started our little get-away on Thursday when we drove to Tuscon to see the rodeo. This rodeo has been happening since 1924.
This was team roping. We were pleased to see several SD cowboys participating. Bull riding is my favorite event and yesterday the bulls won.
We drove to Benson last night and started our morning with a tour of Kartchner Caverns. The caverns were only discovered in 1974 and not opened to the public until the 1990s.
The two rather large caves are located in the two hills behind the buildings. Our cave tour was unlike any of the caves we have seen.
Then it was on to Bisbee where we saw what was left of the Lavender Pit, a large open pit copper mine that is no longer producing.
We took a tour of the non-operating Queen Mine, also a copper mine. This is an underground mine that at one time produced copper, gold, silver & zinc.
Our tour took us 1500 feet underground to learn about mining from the early 1900s to about 1975. Our guide was a retired miner. We wore yellow slickers, mining helmets and had battery packs with lights. That is what is in the ladies hand. We are passing through a timber reinforced section of the mine.
Then we drove onto Tombstone. We walked the streets with the other 100 people in town. Not many people were visiting Tombstone today.
We stopped at Big Nose Kate's Saloon for dinner and the local entertainment.
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