Sunday, February 27, 2011
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
Two little boys in a big canyon
Weston and Brennan played rock throwing games in Golden Canyon. Kelton impressed all of us by catching a chuckwalla lizard. David took lots of photos, but we can't upload until we get home. Two tired little boys are napping, hopefully they'll be up in time to hike out into the sand dunes this afternoon.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Cactus hike
In the northern part of Death Valley, as the elevation increases there are a some cacti. We pulled off the road and went exploring. We saw barrel cactus, cholla, and beavertails. Some of the beavertails had big bites taken out of them. Both Weston and Brennan were very excited that a page from their book, "Who Took the Cookies from the Cookie Jar", was there in real life. Did Rabbit do it?
Kelton found huge spines that were all that was left of a barrel cactus. On the ride back to Furnace Creek he said that now he could recognize the cacti from the car since he'd seen them up close.