Jan. 8 – Tortoise Hill
When we returned from a hike on Friday, Jan. 6 we were pleased to see our neighbors the desert tortoises. The reason we named this site we’ve camped at before is because we met these two, probably the same, tortoises we saw 2 years ago. They were busy grazing on the sprouts growing in the wash between our campsite and the hill.
The male eventually wandered off down the wash, grazing between spurts of rather quick hiking.
While the female finally had her fill and hiked up the hill to the same hole she retired into when we saw her last.