On a normal year, the park only gets about 2" of rain a year. I don't know how much they got, but it rained for four days. Lots of roads were messed up or washed out. Several areas you couldn't go to, because of the roads. They are expecting a beautiful spring with millions of flowers, but that won't happen for another month.
We still enjoyed our visit. The second picture is where the water came rushing through when it rained. Even mud can be interesting.
We wanted to drive through Titus Canyon Narrows. We read that this is a place you do not want to be during a flash flood. It is a one way road through a narrow canyon, with very high rock walls. If the water came rushing through, there is no place to go. We drove up a two-way gravel road, about 3 miles, to a parking area. The canyon road was closed because of the rain. We hiked up about a mile. The next several pictures show this road. It was kind of like the Golden Canyon we hiked last time, but not as pretty.
We wanted to drive the Artist Palette and see the Natural Bridge also, but that was closed too.
We did go see Scotty's Castle. It's hard to imagine a castle in the middle of the desert. He made the area into a resort oasis. I have several pictures of trees and cactus there too.
Look at the old gas pumps. I wonder if they sell old (and cheap) gas there.
Jim decided to rotate the tires out on the highway. When he said he had a donut in the truck, I was ready to eat it. Imagine my surprise when he used it as a tire. A car stopped to help him change the flat. Afterwards I realized it was probably because they thought we were old people. We may look it, but inside we're really much younger.
How about that sunset? What a beautiful way to start another Sabbath!!
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