November 28- December1, 2025 Shoshone to Death Valley, California

 67 and sunny.

Helping my sister lay drip lines for the palm trees. U sunset clouds. 

Sunset and moon . Eagle Mountain on the way to Death Valley.

We are down to Death Valley for the week. Grackles roosting in the campground with the moon. 

We are used to camping at Sunset Campground which is  higher up and has no pesky trees in the view. Sunset is closed till January, so we are in the lower Furnace Creek Campground. Nice enough campground, but I miss the view. Blooming desert gold. These don't usually bloom until end of Feb or March. Perhaps we will have a wonderful bloom this year if they are already starting. 

Sunset at Furnace Creek. 

Freeze warning in Death Valley tonight. The low will be 47. . . We loaded up our boats and went to Badwater ( 282 feet below sea level) to boat on Lake Manly. Lake Manly is usually a dry salt pan. But with the atmospheric river it turned into a lake with water. That's me out there. 

John on Lake Manly, paddling away from the shore. The colors and reflections are beautiful. Looking north from my boat. 

Looking south at John. We paddled out about a mile. This is as deep as it got, maybe 12 inches. 

John with a colorful sundog. The wind came up a bit and there were some waves, they cast cool shadows on the bottom. 

Bigger waves. Paddling back was more work. We had to drag the boats about  3 10ths of a mile on the salt to get back to the car. 

Sunset was this kind of weird sundog. Sunset with birds. 

We walked over to the golf course, 214 feet BELOW sea level and had dinner at the Wild Rose saloon.