Comments on: Joshua Tree National Park http://www.guitarfish.org/2009/11/23/joshua-tree-national-park Planted Aquariums Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:17:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: guitarfish http://www.guitarfish.org/2009/11/23/joshua-tree-national-park/comment-page-1#comment-2974 guitarfish Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:43:33 +0000 http://www.guitarfish.org/?p=903#comment-2974 Thanks for the comments! Jay, my favorite is the moon shot too! It's hard to mess up a scene that pretty though! Mark, it's definitely a national park: http://www.nps.gov/Jotr/index.htm We did hike to a dam that's supposedly the oasis you mentioned, but it was bone dry when we were there. The information said that rainfall has decreased in the park over the last hundred years. It was pretty funny to see a "No swimming" sign in the middle of a dry, sandy reservoir. Thanks for the comments! Jay, my favorite is the moon shot too! It’s hard to mess up a scene that pretty though!

Mark, it’s definitely a national park:

http://www.nps.gov/Jotr/index.htm

We did hike to a dam that’s supposedly the oasis you mentioned, but it was bone dry when we were there. The information said that rainfall has decreased in the park over the last hundred years. It was pretty funny to see a “No swimming” sign in the middle of a dry, sandy reservoir.

]]> By: Jay L http://www.guitarfish.org/2009/11/23/joshua-tree-national-park/comment-page-1#comment-2972 Jay L Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:48:30 +0000 http://www.guitarfish.org/?p=903#comment-2972 Well executed Kris ! My favorite has to be the last photograph. Thanks for sharing. Well executed Kris ! My favorite has to be the last photograph. Thanks for sharing.

]]> By: Mark F. http://www.guitarfish.org/2009/11/23/joshua-tree-national-park/comment-page-1#comment-2969 Mark F. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:20:18 +0000 http://www.guitarfish.org/?p=903#comment-2969 Beautiful pictures, Kris - brings back fond memories of when I used to live in California; I've been hiking in Joshua Tree twice. My recollection is that it's actually a National Monument, not a National Park, but I could be wrong (I'm not even sure how the distinction is made - I guess lasting evidence of historical human activity, such as the petroglyphs, makes it a "monument"). I also seem to recall that there is a paltry hidden oasis of sorts, with a narrow trickle that once fed a 19th Century reservoir (now usually bone dry - though it supposedly fills up, with both water and spadefoot toads, during seasonal rains). Then again, it was over 12 years ago that I was last there, so I don't know how much my memory can be trusted - either way, your advice holds true: you don't want to go walking around in there without bringing your own water. Beautiful pictures, Kris – brings back fond memories of when I used to live in California; I’ve been hiking in Joshua Tree twice.

My recollection is that it’s actually a National Monument, not a National Park, but I could be wrong (I’m not even sure how the distinction is made – I guess lasting evidence of historical human activity, such as the petroglyphs, makes it a “monument”). I also seem to recall that there is a paltry hidden oasis of sorts, with a narrow trickle that once fed a 19th Century reservoir (now usually bone dry – though it supposedly fills up, with both water and spadefoot toads, during seasonal rains).

Then again, it was over 12 years ago that I was last there, so I don’t know how much my memory can be trusted – either way, your advice holds true: you don’t want to go walking around in there without bringing your own water.

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