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| one of two roadrunners that kept visiting us in our campsite. they came so close we could almost reach out and touch them. |
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| our campsite at Death Valley. kinda like a gravel parking lot is all it is, but works for what we need. had water close by and a dump station when we left. |
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| Our first sunset at Death Valley |
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| the sand dunes at Death Valley |
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| Barb posing at the sand dunes |
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| You can see for miles! |
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| Badwater basin, pathway thru the salt where people have packed it down from walking on it. It changes with the season, the previous year they had a flood in Death Valley and it filled this area with water and formed a lake about a foot deep. One of the Rangers got her kayak out and cruised around the lake. |
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| close ups of the pattern of the salt caused by the salt pushing up and cracking. I think this is what the borax comes from as there was numerous borax mines in this region including the famous 20 Mule team borax |
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| Wide open spaces |
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| Looking down on Badwater Basin from top of Dantes View, this is over a mile down to the basin |
