Kit and Carol on the Road

Anza Borrego is a California State park up in the mountains about a 40 minute drive from here. (Anza is for the Spanish explorer and Borrego the Spanish word for the big horn sheep). Thursday we thought we’d try some new hikes so went out highway 78 instead of S22. We did the one mile hike to see the Elephant Tree. There is only one left here. There are an amazing number of wild flowers in the high desert for January. It is relatively green because of all the rain. After the Elephant tree hike we intended to go to Tamarisk Grove but ended up on another 1 mile hike with awesome views up Yaqui Pass. By then we were so close to Borrego Springs that I wanted to go to the visitor center. There we learned that a huge flash flood last September took out a good portion of the palm trees up the canyon from the campground and indeed did a good deal of damage in the campground itself. We started on the walk up to Palm Canyon but I was too tired to go on this 5 mile hike. Maybe on Saturday? Maybe next year.