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| Today we revisit the Valley of Fire State Park..... 40 miles south of our new base in Mesquite and 50 miles north of Las Vegas... |
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| This is our second visit to this stunning park seeing areas we missed a couple of years ago and revisiting other parts.... On route we stopped at The Lost City Museum in Overton for more information about The Anasazi, the Ancestral Puebloans a subject of interest to us.... |
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| Close to the north entrance into the park is our first stop at Elephant Rock named for obvious reasons.... |
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| We hiked the 1and half mile loop trail past Elephant Rock and found this little chap not given such an accolade in the park brochure as the big rock but to me had more "natural" resemblance to an elephant.... |
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| Look out man... |
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| Sorry couldn't resist..... |
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| Still masses of spring blooms and colour in the desert..... |
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| Time for lunch sandwich and the place to ourselves at Lone Rock.... |
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| View from our lunch table at Lone Rock..... |
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| Some of the cabins built for travellers by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930's....much like the "bothies" in Scotland... I have probably mentioned before that the CCC which was established in 1933 by President Franklin D Roosevelt was one the of the most successful programs to help fight the Big Depression...The CCC has left a legacy of roads, buildings and bridges throughout the US and gave work to more than 3 million young men... |
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| On to Rainbow Vista and an area we have visited before but well worth a second visit... |
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| A good 2 mile hike through soft sand and beauty.... |
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| Heading back out of the park via the north entrance and home.... |
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| This is an area north of Overton on our journey home and a great place to "boon-dock" or natural camping (we leave that to the hardier folks with generators !!) ....peaceful and beautiful but not sure we would like to be perched on the edge like that especially with the strong gusty winds we have experienced since being here..... A great day out in a spectacular park.... For now it's goodbye from... The Happy Campers.... |
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