Coming down the 1-mile road through the ranch to the campground you get a great view of the coaches. Ours is the one sitting all by its lonesome.

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Just outside our bedroom window is a swallow apartment. It's one birdhouse that has a divider in the middle allowing two swallow families to raise their young in one building. It is so much fun watching the chicks with wide-open beaks just waiting for their next bug.

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The Kavanaugh Verling Homestead pump stands at the entrance to the campground. The Kavanaugh family were the first owners of this spectacular ranch.

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There is a 6-mile drive on a dirt road around a bit of the ranch. The first thing we came upon was this pack-rat nest. It would be interesting to see what the inside looked like but not interesting enough to dig through it!

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There was a forest of ancient juniper trees that was spectacular.

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The gravel pit was a great place to look for Paiute Tears and agates. We did find some rocks that we think are Paiute Tears but who knows! We also went through a rock field that had been created from Mt. Mazama's eruption 7,700 years ago when Crater Lake was formed.

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Big Spring was incredibly beautiful as it meandered along. The moss-covered trees in this area intrigued us.

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Here in southern Oregon it is still spring with the lupines out in all their beauty as well as...

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...the monkey flowers that created a yellow carpet on the fields.

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Continuing on our drive we came upon a huge herd of cows who couldn't understand why we were disturbing their grazing time. We had to stop and wait for them to cross the road numerous times. It is indeed a working ranch!

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We passed a sign that read "Rock Chuck" Crossing. A little further down the road we spotted a pair of yellow-bellied marmots that I guess are also called rock chucks.

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