April 5, 2013 Valley of Fire, Nv

Leaving Las Vegas and going to Valley of Fire.

Along North shore road near Bowl of Fire. Lake Mead from North Shore road.

Heading into the Valley of Fire. Valley of Fire is an outcropping of red rocks in among gray rock hills and mountains. 36,000 acre park with 150 million year old frozen in place sand dunes now exposed to the elements and have been sculpted into weird gorges, domes and pinnacles and numerous geological oddities. Petrified wood.

Valley of Fire. Rainbow vista.

John on the Fire Canyon trail. View from Fire Canyon trail.

View from Fire Canyon trail.  Arch.

Purple rock layers, an arch and a cave

Views from Fire Canyon trail.

Arch, looking down into Fire Canyon.

View from Fire Canyon trail. Nice tights!

White domes area.

The bus at the Atlatl campground. Clouds near sunset

Valley of Fire on fire.

Desert Iguana, humming bird, beaver tail prickly pear cactus, bush with red flowers, beetle, little brown bird, morman tea blossoms, cholla blossom

evening primrose, tiny white flowers, white flower, vetch, tiny yellow flowers, evening primrose after it has bloomed, close up of a vetch, white flowers

Mariposa lily, red flowers, cool rock holes, tracks in the sand, prickly pear, and prickly pear. Lots of prickly pears blooming.

April 3,4 2013 Iceberg Canyon, Red Rock Canyon, NV

 

John in the mouth of Iceberg canyon. View from lunch.

Cool colors on the rocks, evil eye, concentric, dinosaur footprint, more circles

Earth and snake mosaic at visitors center, Sue and John at visitors center

wild flowers

Dinner at the bus at Red Rock Canyon campground, John and Sue on desert tortoises.

wild flowers are blooming, spring is here.

wild flowers and animals.

Evening clouds behind the bus.

April 1-2 Shoshone to Las Vegas

 

Judy hiking on the Bluff trail west of Shoshone. Judy and Sue on the Bluff trail.

Desert tortoise in Shoshone. I made him famous by making a glass plate with him on it and winning a prize. Judy with her new contractors saw.

John getting a hydro massage from the waterfall in the pool in Shoshone. Dinner at the Crowbar.

Sue, Judy, John and Susan Sorrel having dinner at the Crowbar on Judy’s birthday. Susan treated us. Judy.

Tues am we took off for Las Vegas. Welcome to Nevada. I love this joshua tree forest on the way to Vegas. They are all blooming.

Red Rock canyon west of Las Vegas. We are camped at the campground here. They have wild horses and burros here. Don’t feed them.

Red Rock Canyon. Here are two cell towers outside Las Vegas. Which one makes more sense, the pine tree one in the middle of the desert where there are no trees or the palm tree one where there are palm trees??