Yesterday was a mixed bag. The first half spent in the heat of the day driving around the desert with the roof off the Beetle..
The Joshua Tree National Park is simply stunning - a reminder of both NZ and Oz.
Who would have expected sunburn in winter. Anyway. The next part was spent up a hill, quite a big hill, looking at the Cochella Valley and the San Andreas Fault from above.
It was a great way to have a complete escape from normality... No mobile signal....nothing!
Ryan is out there somewhere doing his best to imitate one of the trees...
Some interesting sights out there indeed..popcorn anyone?
The Cholla Cactus Garden was angry looking, but gave us some inspiration for our backyard at Chateau Nundahpants.
Next stop.... The cold bits!
So the 5000ft bit wasn't enough, so we caught the Tramway up to the Mt San Jacinto State Park. It was only 8500ft, and 4 degrees, real teeth chattering stuff.
There was a great view from the top (and on the way up - as the car rotated so everyone could get a view of the surroundings).
Clyde hasn't seen snow before, lucky for his fur coat.
As it is a state park the wildlife were rather protected, so there was no feeding of the little critters!
But, yet again the view was rather boring....not! Nice to escape into the wild again.
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