The southernmost part of the Joshua Tree National Park is in the Colorado Desert, which is known as the low desert. I hiked the Lost Palms Oasis Trail which runs about 3,000 ft (900 m) above the sea.
A fun fact: the original name proposed for the Joshua Tree National Park was the “Desert Plants National Park”, because this desert is known to be home for an impressive number of plant species. I can fully confirm that observation, and the pictures speaks for themselves…
I was surprised to find a wide variety of plants standing rather close to each other as I walked along the path I had planned to follow. Flowers, bushes, cacti, grasses, weeds…so many kinds that I don’t know their names. Birds too, and lizards of course.
Actually, when I look at my close-up pictures today, and then at the landscape pictures I shot on that same trip, I still find it hard to make the connection between the two.
