I didn't sleep well last night, so I wasn't sure how today would go. There was a 50-50 chance of rain, and we felt we had an extra day, with 'maybe no rain today', so we struck off for the park again this morning. We heard thunder, saw lightening in the distance, and the heavy dark clouds kept looming over us, as we did the desired hikes of the day. Of course, our geo-caching took us to the certain points of interest. We did about 5 miles today with shorter loop hikes, that we could possibly scoot back to the truck, if it did start to rain. We lucked out and did everything we set out to do. We did a very scenic and interesting trail called, Barker Dam. It was a dam built in the early 1900's, to collect water for an old homestead that raised cattle. Then we did the longer hike that took us to the Wall Street Stamp Mill that was in operation from 1930 to 1966. The last loop hike was just a mile long, but very scenic through some beautiful rocks. It was also very populated, so we were glad it was only a mile long! We had peace and solitude, for the most part when we did the other trails. I've logged my caches for today and will post some pictures and I'm off to bed! We have two more days to explore and the list is still long. We are thoroughly enjoying all there is to see and do in the park. We did meet an interesting man from Denmark today. He actually, shed some light on one of the earthcaches for us. It pertained to the country singer Graham (Gram) Parsons, and he knew all about him. It seems that Parson's road manager brought his body to Joshua Tree NP and cremated him at the site of our earthcache! The things we learn while geo-caching!
I found a comfortable chair with its own canopy!
Barker Dam - early 1900's
An earthcache took us to this old relic in the desert. It had to belong to the workers at the mill.
This is the Wall Street Mill Site.
This is about the only wildlife we have seen. It's a Jack Rabbit!
This is a nice bouquet of Indian Paint Brush.
I had to take just one more picture of a Beaver Tail Prickly Pear in full bloom!
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