Our schedule for the morning was to tour around some of the irrigated
farms. 
We started with a visit of the major grain silos in Obregon. Here we learnt how
they grade the truck loads of wheat and inspected the facility including the
roof top view looking over the city of Obregon.
In this photo we are hearing about wheat receivals.
Here I am on top of a 35 metre silo overlooking Obregon.
Overlooking Obregon
Wheat silos
We then drove around looking at various crops including cereals, orange
orchards and pecan nut plantations. The farm houses are very vibrant places with
lots of different fruit trees and vegetables and quite often chickens, dogs cats and
horses. Really interesting. Just about everywhere we went, we saw bougainvillea
flowering.
Labourers picking vegetables
Orange orchard.
We are just about to head to the Obregon airport for a flight to Mexico
City where we will spend a night and day before heading to Brazil. There have been
major earth quakes in Mexico City during the past few days including a 7.3 which
destroyed some 1000 houses. Just heard via local press that there have been
another 4 more quakes so far today. Needless to say we are hoping for an
uneventful stop over!
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