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Bellvue Watson Fish Hatchery
Hello everyone, Jodi and I have been here in Bellvue, Colorado for a little over 2 months and working at Bellvue-Watson Fish Hatchery feeding the thousands of rainbow trout. We have four raceways about a thousand feet long full of fish. We feed them just about every day with about 800lbs of fish food, using a truck of course. It has been very interesting and very fun working here. We do other things like grounds maintenance, painting, and cleaning. The hatchery is open every day from 8am to 3pm and we even give tours of the hatchery. We enjoy hosting here so much that we are returning again next summer. We like the area a lot. It’s quiet and has a beautiful surroundings, plus Fort Collins is a fun town and full of entertainment. We go to live music events in town and Lory State Park to hike. We worked at Lory State Park two years ago. Some pictures of the area we live at and around us.
Hiking at Lory State Park
Some live music we went to while in Fort Collins
The nice thing is Fort Collins being a college town, has a lot of art & music fests going on all summer, so we try to go to them when we can. We get caught in the rain almost every time, but then it stops just in time for music.
Wildfires of Colorado
While here in Colorado, we have been worried about the wildfires that spark up here and there. Two years ago, when we were at Lory State Park, we had lightning start a wild fire just 4 to 5 miles away, but they got that one under control quickly. Well just a week ago, there have been 5 wildfires start up around us and they all happen within a week. The largest one, the Alexander Mountain fire was the first one to start and it is 16 miles away. About 25 people have lost their homes, and it’s growing. About 10,000 acres has burned and only 35% is contained, and all 5 wildfires are still going. This is scary for sure. That is really the only thing that does concern us when we are out west. We don’t have to worry about the hurricanes and the hundreds of tornadoes out east. Just hail and wildfires.
We are here at the hatchery till September. After that we head to Florence, Arizona for our winter hosting job at Desert Gardens RV Resort. We will be there for 6 months and then head back to the Bellvue Watson Hatchery for the last hosting job. We will then winter from then on at Sierra Vista, Arizona at the Vista View RV Resort that we found last winter. We fell in love with that resort and we have a real nice RV site with a storage shed and great view of the mountains. There are some awesome people that stay there for the winter or all year-round and they have lots of games, fun events and dinners. We plan on staying at that RV resort for winters, about 9 months, and head north to the upper United States to site see areas like Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, Washington, Utah for about 3 months during the hot summers of Arizona. We will be pretty much done with the traveling all over the United States for hosting jobs and just head to Arizona for winters, and up to the northwestern states for summer visits. We are happy we finally found a permanent winter location in Arizona. We will continue to travel and site see a few places up north each summer. We can’t give up this lifestyle of traveling and seeing the many beautiful places we have still not yet seen. Many more adventures ahead of us. The pictures below is the Vista View RV Resort in Sierra Vista, AZ that we will be spending our winters at. Great place.
We hope all is well with everyone, and you are staying cool and safe. We will do the same!! If you have any questions or comments, please leave them on here. I will answer you as soon as I can. Keep following us on our travels and see where we BOBBLE TO NEXT!!!!!!
THE BOBBLE HEAD TRAVELERS JODI AND MARK