NOTE…this is one of three blogs….Day’s 27, 28 and 29th…SORRY for the laps, but it has been a BAD few days…you will need to read Day 27 to understand…
Good morning / evening from Carlsbad Cave, New Mexico…
WOW…what a LONG day! We left around 10:00 am., from the campground and drove 25 miles to the White Sands National park, what a cool ride. You drive through a missile proving ground, and the terrain and area is very eerie…big…and cool!...actually near where they tested the A-Bomb…
When you arrive at the NP, you can start to see EXTREMELY white sand, blinding actually. As you drive into the park, you are treated to the absolute coolest and sensor messing place you will ever be. It looks like snow, is blinding like snow, but its sand and it was over 100 deg, but the sand is cool to the touch. So very weird…the contrast between the blue sky and white is so gorgeous, but hard to photograph due to the brightness of the sand. Glad I had my filter. lol…Park is not big, and the hikes are meant for cooler weather, you could die out there! Easy to get lost REALLY easy…As you drive into the park about 8 miles, you are allowed to “sled” down the sand, like on snow. You rent these discs, and wax them, and then go have fun. Awesome to watch the kids and Patty do this, but they got exhausted going up the sand…deep and steep…I just walked the ridges, and admired the sights…what a geek!
After the park we decided to do a scenic drive…you would think I know what that means, but I will NEVER learn. It was 180 miles of TOUGH driving…you climb 4,500 feet in 5 miles, and then you stay at the 8,200 feet for over 100 miles. This part of New Mexico is wicked. You get EVERY terrain known to man. Woods, desert, mountains, streams, forest, farm, flat (saw the earth curve)…simply awesome! Absolutely worth the trip, but man was it hard to drive…TONS of turns for almost 3 hours.
Once down out of the scenic route we opened up to typical highway and headed to Carlsbad cave, where we attempted to watch the Bats in flight show at 8:00pm…everything was a go, and literally minutes before millions of bats departed the cave, a wicked storm came and scared all the bats back in. Needless to say, we have now just got to the campground, after a gruelingly long day, and we were robbed the opportunity to see the bats…oh well, as I now know there was a reason for that!
So, I will cut this short so I can get some shut eye….until the next blog have a great and blessed day!
EXTREMELY COOL LANDSCAPE....
Nicholas testing the hill
Michael bobsledding...
The LONG trex up!
Mom having fun!
Nicholas, scoping the scene...
Michael making believe he was lost (which is easy to do really)
Michael playing dead!
Nicholas ROLLING down the sand...forget the dish!
Ok..he needed to wash the sand away...
The "scenic route"....this was the start of the 4,500 foot climb....
Like I said, it had every terrain!
The view from the visitors center at Carlsbad Cave...VERY BIG!
Well, we ALMOST saw the Bats!
Another VERY Blessed Day!!!!
awesome pictures thanks for shareing ... love u all and have a safe trip back home ..oxoxoxoxox
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