Only ~100 miles from Sequioa and King's Canyon National Parks as the Crow flies, but this place could not be more different! (Note we drove 400 miles around the southern tip of the Sierras to get here.) It reached 110F today and it is dry and desolate!
We are staying at the Furnace Creek campground. The name is accurate except that it is an oasis of palm trees in the middle of rock and scrub brush. Still trying to deduce where the water comes from, but at least they use renewable energy! (And they have showers & a pool!)
The Devil's Golf Course. Incredible salt formations almost as far as the eye can see. (Dirty salt, but the German tourists who took our picture said it tasted good.)
Yes. That's all salt behind us.
Mmmm. Salt.
Took refuge under the "natural bridge" for lunch. Mmmm. Sandwiches.
Adam checks out a "waterfall" that used to be a tributary and has now been carved out by the canyon. Cool.
Desolate (and 110F!). Time to go jump in the pool.
