We arrived early to the James M. Robb CO River State Park-Island Acres Section due to my foot. The park rangers have been great in accommodating us. We had plan on coming in and paying for our site until our official time of starting. But they wouldn’t hear of that. Instead, they are just going to put us to work early-and we have no problems with that at all.
When we first initially got the position of volunteering, our primary job was cleaning campsites after campers left and selling firewood. Since then I guess there has been some changes going on in the main office and now instead of cleaning campsites, it has been decided that we would actually be working in the gate house/office assisting the park ranger.
Since arriving here, the gate house hasn’t been open very much. The first two days someone was in there after 12pm, with a few days being completely closed. We have seen park rangers through the park, but they don’t run the gate house too much. So I guess we will be train to operate their day to day duties in the office in assisting campers; something that we are very familiar in doing already.
The setting around the James M. Robb CO River Park-Island Acres is very pretty. It sits along the Colorado River with 3 small inner lakes; two of which is stocked with fish and the one is solely for swimming. We are situated between canyon walls. I-70 running along the side, where we do hear the noise from the Interstate, but once you get use to that noise-it makes the visit very well worth coming.
We haven’t seen any form of wild life-yet-other than a large black and white kitty cat running freely around the park. But we are told that we might see some wild horses, turkey, and lots of varies types of birds.
We have met the other two volunteers that help keep this park clean. They seem to be nice couples. The one has been here for several years while the other one, like us, are new.
Phone reception is sporadic and does not work at our site. We have found two areas in the park where we can get a weak signal to make calls. Occassionally the phone will ring inside our motorhome, but when we answer, we loose the signal. So all of my blogging and Face Booking will have to be done outside the park when we go to our daughters place in town.
When we first initially got the position of volunteering, our primary job was cleaning campsites after campers left and selling firewood. Since then I guess there has been some changes going on in the main office and now instead of cleaning campsites, it has been decided that we would actually be working in the gate house/office assisting the park ranger.
Since arriving here, the gate house hasn’t been open very much. The first two days someone was in there after 12pm, with a few days being completely closed. We have seen park rangers through the park, but they don’t run the gate house too much. So I guess we will be train to operate their day to day duties in the office in assisting campers; something that we are very familiar in doing already.
The setting around the James M. Robb CO River Park-Island Acres is very pretty. It sits along the Colorado River with 3 small inner lakes; two of which is stocked with fish and the one is solely for swimming. We are situated between canyon walls. I-70 running along the side, where we do hear the noise from the Interstate, but once you get use to that noise-it makes the visit very well worth coming.
We haven’t seen any form of wild life-yet-other than a large black and white kitty cat running freely around the park. But we are told that we might see some wild horses, turkey, and lots of varies types of birds.
We have met the other two volunteers that help keep this park clean. They seem to be nice couples. The one has been here for several years while the other one, like us, are new.
Phone reception is sporadic and does not work at our site. We have found two areas in the park where we can get a weak signal to make calls. Occassionally the phone will ring inside our motorhome, but when we answer, we loose the signal. So all of my blogging and Face Booking will have to be done outside the park when we go to our daughters place in town.
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