Joshua Tree

Up at first light (6:15) for a first look at our (stunning) surroundings, as we had arrived in the dark:

The Quail platoon trotted through:

Gambel’s Quail

Gambel’s Quail

Then we headed back into the Park, stopping first to try (and failing)  to get the allegedly easy Roadrunner at the Oasis site, then up to the Cholla cactus “garden”. Extraordinary thing is that it occupies a very small and specific location, with the cacti found nowhere else in the Park:

Same applies to the Joshua Tree, though it is much more locally widespread:

The house with a small rock stack: