Big Bend National Park Photo Gallery by Ruth Moorhead at pbase.com

Big Bend National Park

After five days, we looked outside the park for another campground, and ended up hightailing it back to Big Bend
for one more lovely stay. Spreading over three counties, the park has three campgrounds and many small areas where primitive,
walk-in camping is allowed. This is the largest protected area of Chihuahuan Desert in the United States, and provides many fine examples
of the variety of plant life that occurs there, depending on elevation and exposure. We hiked in creosote bush scrub,
among cacti, through sand, over boulders, between high arroyo walls, and along streams large and small. We went to a Chisos Mountains
waterfall and a Rio Grande hot spring, and saw ancient rock art and crumbling 19th-century ranch buildings.
We had roadrunners, canyon towhees, golden-fronted woodpeckers, and a vermillion flycatcher in our camps, and saw deer
and bear during hikes. We hit the schedule right for two nature talks, learning about some regional geography and autumn astronomy.

		Take a Devil's Claw and some Beads...		Ocotillo, Fouquieria splendens
					Lechuguilla!
Candelilla and Lechuguilla	Torrey Yucca, Yucca torreyi	Cylindropuntia leptocaulis, Christmas Cholla
				Opuntia sp., Prickly Pear
Argemone sp., Prickly Poppy	Cylindropuntia leptocaulis, Christmas Cholla		Leucophyllum candidum, Cenizo
Opuntia sp., Prickly Pear			Guyacan, Guaiacum angustifolium
					Rocknettle, Eucnide bartoniodes











	River Between Two Countries	Senna bauhinioides, Twinleaf Senna


The Window Grabs our Eyes				Cupressus arizonica, Arizona Cypress
Last Rays on Casa Grande
			Texas madrone, Arbutus xalapensis
	Agaves on the Rocks





				People call it "Resurrection Fern"
		Where The Window Opens			Torrey Yucca
	Allthorn, Koeberlinia spinosa	Young Pecan Trees, Nail Ranch		An Ants' Nest!
Burned Yuccas		Ocotillo Preparing to Drop its Leaves	Mule Ears, a Volcanic Remnant	Oh, Purple Prickly Pear, What Long Spines You Have!	Tuff Canyon Overlook
		Leftover Cotton Ginning Machinery		Spider's Been Busy	Directing Non-existent Traffic
				Santa Elena Canyon
	Rio Grande River	He's Climbing the Trail	Santa Elena Canyon
Paleface Rosemallow, Hibiscus denudatus			The Dorgans' Fireplace	Petrified Wood
A View out the Dorgans' Window		Restored (?) House Wall



		A Reaching Ocotillo
Eucnide urens, Rock Nettle	Honey Mesquite, Prosopis glandulosa
	Tuff Canyon		A Lechuguilla's Final Fling

Torrey Yucca, Yucca torreyi				Texas Persimmon, Diospyros texana
The Pouroff "Spout"		Tree Cholla, Cylindropuntia imbricata

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