To honor these pilots, a Blue Angels Invitational Golf Tournament is staged each spring. This event is held to say thanks to the many winter visitors welcomed here each year. There are three golf courses near El Centro on which you may play all winter long. During the fall and winter, duck and dove hunting is excellent, with a short season being open for pheasants. There is deer hunting in the mountains to the west.
Fishing is done on the Colorado River and in the Gulf of California.
Climate The climate of the Imperial Valley is warm and dry. More sunshine is recorded in Imperial Valley than in any other area in the United States. If you wished to do so, you could swim in a comfortable pool in El Centro in the morning and play in the snow in the mountains that afternoon. Irrigation All farming in Imperial Valley is done by irrigation. The entire Imperial Valley is below sea level.