Had a fabulous timeyesterday at joshua national park besides the mojave desert. The weather was bright blue skies but once you got out of the car to go walking in the park you realised there was a sharp cold wind! Hard to discern in the car with the sun warming you up.
The park is truly desert like with pale coffee coloured rocks which are smooth with cracks from the extreme heat, 110 plus in the height of summer. Very little vegetation - joshua trees, yuccas and other scrub. Apparently they have had exceptionally low rainfall this year so far, like many parts of the world as climate change bites.
We managed to see some wildlife a few birds - a scrub jay and a bunting like bird plus a white antelope squirrel and a slightly larger chipmunk like creature. We had several circular walks around the park and took some photos. The park's website is here http://www.nps.gov/jotr/index.htm
On the way back to Sarah and Mike's apartment there was the most beautiful red sunset and the weather is set to be good fornext four days or so,including our tripdown to san diego over the weekend before returning to the uk.
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