We came across more of the southern Arizona desert yesterday from Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. All along our southern AZ border with Mexico there is a huge Border Patrol presence. We've seen many patrol vehicles, vans, pickups, 4-wheelers, etc. and have been stopped at numerous checkpoints. It's not easy patrolling a porous border, and in the Organ Pipe National Monument, they continue to make almost 4,000 arrests each year.
Most of the border has very little fence, or it might have fencing designed to prevent vehicle traffic like this:
Occasionally we saw substantial (15 ft high) fencing to prevent human crossing. But the costs are enormous.
We visited an outstanding Oasis/spring, called Quitobaquito spring, that has been used for thousands of years and his home to some wildlife found nowhere else on the planet, including these little Quitobaquito desert pupfish, they taste surprisingly like chicken!
Our last night at Organ Pipe we participated in a cool little nighttime Full Moon hike.
Now on to new adventures in the Tucson area, in one of our favorite parks here.
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