Billy Wardle Happenings

 At first I thought this would be a park where you take you atv buggy on the sand dunes.  I was badly mistaken.  This is a national park geared to preserve the sand dunes.  The dunes are very much like a California beach where they have sand dunes before getting to the beach and ocean.  Consistent with their mission to preserve the dunes; there were walking trails blocked off.  Some of them looked like they would have been fun, going up and over the dunes.  Most people there were headed to the south shore of Lake Michigan.  It was a very hot day.

  Joshua trees Tony on a rock Mohave Yucca   Chola cactus Yucca Juniper Joshua Tree Visitor Center art Lunch on a rock Skull Rock I found cactus caterpillar Joshua tree Rock I thought looked like a tortoise window rock looks like an elephant Skull Rock Tony and White Tank Arch Rock Chola Cactus Garden Tony's sign pictures ocotillo plant sunset Joshua Trees was a three-day trip.  On day to.  We discovered in park camping was full and spent the night on BLM property north of the park close to Copper Mountain.  Second day we drove through the park.  We hit many interesting sights as can be seen from the pictures.  The highlight was stopping for lunch and eating on the rocks.  This also afforded a short hike.  Another short hike was to Skull Rock which was close to Jumbo Rocks.  The rocks there satisfied any bouldering desires we had.  We all climbed some, but Tony really went all out.  He also hiked to the arch by White Tank Campg...