This is a pretty cool place. The collection of rocks, overhangs, fractures, and hollows has hosted humans off and on for ten thousand years. Water collects in cracks, crevices, and holes serving a wide variety of plants and animals. The park is a treasure trove of pictographs, pottery shards, stone tools, and rock mortars. There are over 200 pictographs scattered throughout. Today, it's used mostly for climbing, bouldering, and birding.
We moved to a different site today.
Normal prickly pear cactus.
Special red prickly pear here. It's called violet prickly pear.
A travel machine.
With a very cool name. It's a Royal Enfield. It's the oldest continually produced motorcycle brand in the world. British/Indian. Himalayan model for on-road and off-road touring.
If you squint your eyes just right, you might see a sea otter floating on its back in this desert sea.
Dark-eyed junco.
Canyon towhee.
New birds today:
White-throated Swift.
Canyon Wren.
Bird Count. 253. Count remaining. 147.
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