Gaelyn and I Check Out the Old Mining Area at the Windmills

Tuesday March 15, 2022 Bates Well Road, Ajo Arizona

Exploring

Gaelyn and I drove  from our camp the couple of miles to the old mining area at what I call the windmill area, which might be where the original Darby well was.

We parked here and walked in.

Old windmill

This is the first thing one sees when they walk into this place. An old windmill that has seen it’s day.

Locked gate

We entered the property around this gate. Gaelyn struggled a bit but made it in.

We walked through this spot by the old water tank by the old windmill.

The place looked like at one time it was a hopping place as we entered to explore. Not much going on here now.

Lots of old stuff

There was old stuff laying all over the place spanning quite a few years of occupation.

I’m not sure what this was doing in here, but it looked in pretty good shape.

Pretty messy

This is the remains of the last people living in this house. I didn’t go in.

Lots of cages for something

This looks like an old shop area and it probably was at one time but was converted to some kind of bird or animal cage.

As a matter of fact most of the buildings had been converted to some kind of cages as this one was. Somebody raised a lot of something here during the past.

Copper

I walked up this road checking things out and found a spot that they were prospecting for copper so after I walked up it I came back to show Gaelyn the area.

Old car

Gaelyn dug that old car. We couldn’t figure out what kind it was so we called it an old car.

Up that road I could see this but couldn’t make out what was going on there.

Firing range

It turned out to be a guys target range which was being used by the current owners.

Copper ore

This is some of the exposed copper ore that they had checked out but hadn’t mined. Gaelyn filled her pockets with the blue stuff and tried to get me to pack a big piece out. No way. :O)

We were out there for a couple of hours exploring around and when we got back to the van I got the chairs out and we sat and rested and enjoyed the desert before heading back to our camp area.

BobCats

Bob and Cathy were out and about when we got back so we went over to visit for a spell. We are all pretty good at shooting the bull, a, I mean talking. :O)

Sunset

When the sun went down I retired to my van for dinner.

Nice day.