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San Diego County Hiking, Page 1. A thru I: Anza Borrego thru Indian Creek
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| Anza Borrego State Park | I don't have many shots from here as I've not hiked it much. | ||
 Sand
Rails |
 Immigrant
watering hole (Aqua para Illegals) |
 Ocotillo,
cacti and rocks |
 Phallic
burned palm tree, Portrero Canyon. |
 More
Ocotillo and rock ridges |
 Purple
cactus fleur |
 Ocotillo
blooms |
 Lonely
twin palms near Salvador Canyon taken with 1.6MP camera |
 Scanned
slide of beetles from 1986 |
 Salvador
Canyon via a 1.6MP camera |
 Rock
piles n pointy things |
 Another
scanned slide of flowers, 1986 |
| Cedar Creek Falls | Easy to get to from Ramona if you don't mind some minor trespassing | ||
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| Harvey Moore Trail | Always a favorite as there is lots of parking and rarely many people. | Still recovering from the Cedar Fire of 2003. | |
 Tall
man, tall grass |
Non-survivors of the Cedar Fire. |
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 Only
the hardest parts hang on. |
 Chasing
tadpoles |
 One
of the mini waterfalls along Harper Creek |
Florescent Lichen |
 Detail
from a much bigger picture. |
 Frogs
are disappearing from the back country, not nearly as many as
there used to be. |
 The
heavily carved up Granite Springs bench near the ancient oak. |
 Loved
the spooky light on the bank of the creek |
 The
moss covered 200+ year old oak tree that was luckily untouched
by the Cedar Fire. |
 Lone
tree on the big open patch of the hike. Good place for
Meadowlarks |
 Grass
that looks like it was slept upon by a big herd of deer. |
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 Wooden
signposts are making way for composite lumber (AKA Trex) that
will not rot and burns less easily |
 Turkeys
take the bus |
 Flock
of turkeys, 1 Tom and 28 hens. Quite the turkey harem. |
 I'm
not sure what this plant is called, but it's the main reason I
don't hike in shorts as it will SHRED you. |
 Stout
plant growing up around the wellhead at Granite Springs |
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 Nice
light and the vulture was kind enough to hang out for the shot. |
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| Indian Creek | (near Cuyamaca Rancho State Park) | ||
 Shows
the path we took, each dot is where we stopped. |
 Study
in green. |
 Mummified
coyote hind leg.
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 San
Diego Alligator Lizard |
 Doug
mugging with a bloomin' yucca. |
 Study
in green lichen and moss along Indian Creek |
 Indian
Creek waterfall. |
 Yet
another Alligator Lizard, this one was half asleep in the sun, I
stroked its back and it work up and wiggled off into the weeds. |
 Some
of the massive burn-off from the 2003 Cedar Fire. Devastated the
pines and oaks of Cuyamaca Rancho State Park. |
 Doug
doing a tick check while wandering into the dead trees. Being a
vegan, I call him a Tick Magnet, he'll get 10 ticks and I'll get
none. Must be because I'm either a carnivore or always wear a
big hat? |
 Baby
cholla cactus, about 2" tall. |
 Idiots
with shotguns and a 30.06 (they left all the casings and spent
shells around the house) shot up a rock house along Deer Trail
Rd.No respect for personal property. |
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