Joshua Tree Park is in the middle of the desert north of Palm Springs. That's the desert.
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It's rugged, mountains that rise out of the desert. See the dark line going across the middle of the photo?
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That's the San Andreas Fault South of the park!
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Here you can see how the fault is in the valley between ranges of mountains.
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Look the other direction and it's rocks - and towering clouds.
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Rocks of all shapes
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Rocks often covered with people climbing them
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And quite a few other creatures - rattlesnakes for instance
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And big lizards - this guy was ~18"
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More rocks with peopel crawling up them and - see the hole?
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Hanging out
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Another view of the same hole in the rocks that looks like a skull from this angle
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And a close up
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Rocks with names
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Precarious rocks
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And of course cactus and sun - lots of sun
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Different types of cactus
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And more cactus
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Cactus and rocks
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People climbing rocks
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People learning how to climb rocks - yep a rock-climbing school
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Rocks and dried up trees, crushed under rockslides
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One of my favorite signs of all times!
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Odd shaped rocks
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Really odd
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Joshua tree has one big water hole around Barker Dam
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More cactus
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Grafittiglyphs!
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Odd rocks galore
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Wind must be shaping them
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We were there in April for the wildflowers
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cactus was in bloom too
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Nasty but beautiful
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This is the core of a dead cactus
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Almost as many types of cactus as rocks
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Cactus blooms
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Another unique sign - must be a story here but I have not been able to track it down
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Even birds next in the desert
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Odd dead cactus base
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I think its a lichen
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The hole in the rock looks mandmade? Indians grinding corn?
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We'll end with this colorful dried palm
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