Our Location:
North of MM 4, Ogilby Road, Winterhaven, California
A very quiet night last night, and a colder than usual start to the morning with our outside temps being at 35F/1.6C. It wasn't long though until the sun popped over the mountains and the temps started rising.
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| I love the colours of the barrel cactus. |
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| As you can see they are very sharp, and this one has some spent blooms. |
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| Not quite transparent. |
Today we have no plans but some for tomorrow. So I don't want to over due anything today and instead of a hike, I thought I'd take you through the arroyo behind us. The photos show various things I found there, including the different bed bottom from gravel, to sand, to rocks. All of the changes were within a very short distance, about 500 feet, give or take a bit.
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| Lots of dead wood, various kinds but whitish in colour and littering the ground. |
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| A few hardy cactus grow right in the arroyo, they must have good roots to hang on during the rains. |
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| This plant has big spiked balls on it and looks to grow rapidly. |
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| Some sort of prickly pear I think, but no pricklies. |
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| Various kinds of trash in the arroyos as well, washed from higher up or farther back. |
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| An old metal pail buried in the sand, note how fine that sand is but with bigger gravel and rocks as well. |
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| Very sandy here, gritty and very rolly under foot. Wide too, you can see most of the growth on the banks. |
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| Pattern in the wind blown sand or the small ripples of water left these marks, or both. |
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| You can see closer to the cut edge the gravel and rocks have been ground into a finer sand than out farther. |
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| A definite point of losing speed as the bigger rocks are out more to the middle and far edge. |
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| The White Lion sits atop that bank. |
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| The Igloo and Dogsled a bit down the way also sits above the bank. |
Thanks for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed your walk in the arroyo.
Until next time....
Take care, be safe,
Deb
