The Mojave Desert resembles the Cariboo in that they like
their numeric place names, except instead of using the distance from Cache
Creek as a reference, they count the number of palms at a watering hole. Thus the town of 29 Palms (I believe this is
where John Belushi died in a motel room), the 9 Palms Motel (I could only see 6
– global warming?) in the town of 29 Palms, and the 49 Palms Oasis, destination
of today’s hike.
We hiked over a ridge and then could see the oasis in the
distance
then hiked down to the palms.
There were flowers blooming,
Bladderpod, I think
and hummingbirds feeding on the flowers, a very vocal
phainopepla
and we also saw a pair of Prairie Falcons (Birds of the
Day!).
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