The Photos below are from 2011.
| I moved to Arizona about 1970 and came to a town called Sunsites south of Wilcox. It is also about 50 miles from the Chiricahua National Monument so it was a close point of interest. Fely, Sam and I have visited it twice once in June of 2003 when Sam was only six and again in May of 2011 when she was 13. |
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| This formation is called Cochise's Head after the leader of the Chiricahua Apaches that lived in the valley to the west. |
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| If I recall correctly I took this through one of the public telescopes. |
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| This was a natural arch on a side trail. |
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| The lovers. |
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| I don't know what this was called but it made me think of Star Wars. |
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| We camped in the public campground in the park. |
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| Duck Rock. |
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| Punch & Judy. |
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| The Old Woman. The hike to the Wonderland of
Rocks is 8 miles and Sam made it but she was getting tired the last
couple of miles. The Photos below are from 2011. |
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| We managed to the the same campsite in the campground. |
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| The Sea Captain. |
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| Cochise's Head from a different location. |
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| It is a beautiful trail. |
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| More spires. |
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| Not all the balanced rocks are in the wonderland portion of the trail. |
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| At about the half-way point of the trail a hiker gets to the Wonderland of Rocks where the greatest consentration of formations are found. |
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| Kissing Rocks |
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| The hikers at Punch & Judy |
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| I thought these looked like dinosaurs. |
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| Looking North, one sees Dos Cabezas (two heads) above a small town of the same name. |
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| I don't remember. |
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| This one was a face. |
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| The photographer. |
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| Looks like a toad. |
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