Jan. 12 – The Borrego Valley
We spent one night in Ocotillo Wells State Vehicular Recreation Area (OWSVRA). A great campsite with showers, a Discovery Center and lots of rangers patrolling the area. We took a short walk in the morning to Blowsand Hill and watched the motorcycles and ATVs climb up the hill and zoom around. We continued our trip into Anza Borrego Desert State Park and headed to the Visitor Center at the edge of the tiny town of Borrego Springs. As we drove into Borrego Valley we passed through Galleta Meadows, a desert vista with strange creatures frozen in time and space!
Huge metal birds appear about to take off from the desert floor.
Detail of the gaping beaks of these mythical birds.
Elsewhere in the desert prehistoric sabre-toothed cats stalk the prehistoric horses.
Apparently there is paleontological evidence here of these creatures, as well as mammoths.
The sculptor captured the open mouthed fear the horse may have felt!
The sabre-toothed cat stalks the alert horse (who is missing an ear).
Detail of the sabre-toothed cat. They became extinct about 10,000 years ago.