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Rio Grand Village
We headed towards the eastern portion of Big Bend this day, visiting Dugout wells, the Rio Grand Village area and Boquillas Canyon.
Given the hiking volume yesterday, today is going to be a lot lighter.
The Dugout wells area is an old settlement around a source of water.
There are three kinds of prickly pear cactus in the park. We saw all three at dugout wells.
We hiked the Hot Springs Historic trail next. This is a short trail to the historic hot springs right along the river.
Then we hiked the Rio Grand Village Nature trail which is also a short hike. This is the Rio Grand looking west. Mexico is on the left and the campground at Rio Grand Village is on the right.
We ate lunch at the park near the general store. Saw a roadrunner in the grass behind us.
Then we took a wrong turn to head towards Boquillas Canyon, but got rewarded with a bobcat sighting.
We went to Boquillas Canyon and did the short hike there.
We did a backcountry drive on the way back to Chisos basin.