Saturday May 5th:
We took a drive around the outskirts of the Joshua Tree NP today, along a scenic route that truly was, then up into the park from the south to the north as we hadn't gone that way previously. Again the scenery was varied as we come up through the Pinto Basin, which was an old old bed for a slow moving river that an ancient people had lived alongside. The river has long dried up and the people moved on, but the basin remains. Along the way there was a "Cholla" (pronounced "CHOI-YA") "garden". The cactus had taken hold over an extended area and was the most prevelant plant there. See the picture on the right.
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