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Published: December 24th 2006
Joshua Tree
Not a tree at all, but a lily.To get to the Joshua Tree National Park we drove past some interesting (to say the least) towns with names like Yucca Valley and Twentynine Palms. Could it have something to do with basically the only vegetation out there higher than 5 feet being varieties of the Yucca lily (yes, it's not a palm tree at all...)?
In Twentynine Palms (which hosts a massive military base and seems to be the reason the town is around at all) we were told that coyotes would come up to the car and beg for food, so we looked, and looked, and looked... D saw a tail and a stripy behind, and that was it... The only other interesting fauna we saw was a black-tailed jackrabbit.
The park, which is part of the Mojave Desert, is enourmous. You could easily spend days up here camping. Apart from the wildlife and the landscape as attractions, it's also a very popular destination for climbers, as I'm sure you understand from the pictures. At between 3-5,000 feet (1-1.500m) it's not a warm place in the winter, and we saw snow every here and there. It's a perfect location for one of those classic western movies
Black-tailed Jackrabbit
One of the few inhabitants we saw in the park. though. You can really hear the horses' and the guns firing in the distance.
After a full day of hiking and driving through the park we set our course south and spent the night in Palm Springs, which is exactly as we expected - full of golf resorts and the older generation.
For att komma till Joshua Tree National Park korde vi forbi en del intressanta (minst sagt) stader med namn som Yucca Valley och Twentynine Palms. Kan det bero pa att den enda vaxtligheten dar over 1,5 m ar varianter av Yuccaliljan (japp, det ar inte alls en palm...)?
I Twentynine Palms (har ligger en enorm militarbas, vilken verkar vara anledningen till att stan existerar over huvud taget) fick vi hora att prarievargar skulle komma fram till bilen och tigga mat, sa vi tittade efter dem, och tittade, och tittade... D sag en svans och en randig bakdel, och det var allt... Den enda ovriga intressanta fauna vi sag var en svartsvansad hare.
Parken, som ar en del av Mojaveoknen, ar enorm. Man kan latt talta har flera natter. Vid sidan av djurlivet och landskapet ar det ocksa en popular plats for bergsklattrare, som
Now...
which one was on the album cover? synes av bilderna. Pa 1-1.500 meters hojd at det inte varmt pa vintern, och vi sag sno lite har och var. Det ar perfekt landskap for gamla westernfilmer dock, och man kan latt forestalla sig ljudet av hasthovar och pistoler langt bort.
Efter en hel dags vandring och bilkorning genom parken vande vi nasorna soderut och tillbringade natten i Palm Springs, vilket var precis som vi forestallt oss, fullt av golfbanor och den aldre generationen.
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Ron
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Yucca-related
The relative of the yucca that you don't identify is a nolina.