Note: If you click twice on the arrow and turn your speakers up a little you will get the full effect of the video. Imagine: this desert is your home. You know when the seasons change, how the plants grow, where the animals hide. You know the gentle rains of the cool months, and you know the hot months, too, when temperatures soar and dust storms obscure the horizon. Weeks pass wthout any rain, and when at last it comes, it is with violent thunderstorms. The summer months are not easy, but this is your home. The Sonoran Desert is a harsh land. Annual rainfall averages only 8 inches and temperatures can reach 120 degrees. This was the Stone Age. These are the Hohokam People. Take a look across the compound. Imagine how the Hohokam used ingenuity and hard work to adapt successfully to the desert. Using stone-age technology, they built a civilization that lasted over a thousand years. Their archetectural tradition culminated in the construction of the Casa Grande. The ruins of the Casa Gr...
Following us as we adventure through this wonderful life of ours and share it with our friends from 2000 to the present. Salmon Fishing in 2002 on the Kenai River.