holidays

After leaving Furnace Creek we went south to look at what’s called the ‘Devil’s Golf Course’. It’s a section of the valley formed from mounds of encrusted salt. When it rains, salt on the surface dissolves and then as it recrystallises the wind blows it into spiky forms which encrust everything on the [...]

En route to Death Valley we stopped to look at the sandstone rock formations in the Alabama Hills, just outside Lone Pine. The wind has sculpted the rock into strange shapes. The hills were used as a hideout by soldiers in the civil war, and they named them after the battleship the CSS [...]