Mojave

Our first few days in Baker...While we were cleaning out the neighbor's pool we found a lizard drowning in it. That is how daxon was able to catch it.


Daxon sharing his toys with king Graham.


MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE!
We have only gone to the visitor's center and two of the sites at mojave. There are a LOT left, but here are the pictures we have gotten so far. The park is 1.6 million acres. (the 3rd largest national park in North America)

AWARD WINNING PICS AT MOJAVE...so far.

Grand Prize winner


2nd Place





3rd Place


Jr. Prize


They had random mounds of rocks lying around.


These weird flowers grow out of the ground without leaves or anything, just a stem and flower.


Lizard kendra almost stepped on.


There were lots of these orange flowers growing everywhere.
Hole-in-the-wall camp ground is one of the places we went. There are a few reasons why it might be called hole-in-the-wall, but ultimately it has to do with one of these holes.





There are two parts on the trail that you have to use climbing rings to get up and down the steep rocks.







We went by a couple different "forests" - one was the Joshua tree forest, one of the densest in the world. (Joshua trees must not grow very close together.)




The other was one that was burnt by a wild fire a while ago. I don't know what kind of tree they are. They looked like stumpy/thick white pines. (A few clumps of trees are still alive)


We took pictures of a few of the MANY different Cactus on the Preserve


Some of which we didn't notice until too late.




We were leaving the park just in time to catch the sunset.