John Martin Reservoir — Camping Trip #4 – And Bents Old Fort

Welcome to the Southeastern side of Colorado in a June that turned hot quickly. John Martin Reservoir is a HUGE body of water with tons of birds and tons of sun.  I really did enjoy hearing all of the calls of the birds that I was not familiar with and the reservoir is extremely popular with birders due to the diversity of species.  There were lots of people with jet skis and boats.  This is clearly an area for water toys! It hovered in the high 90’s, low 100’s while…