This Labor Day, Vanessa and I drove out to the Living Desert near Palm Springs, Ca. The Living Desert is a Zoo and Garden featuring desert life, from the local Mojave Desert, and deserts the world over. It's absolutely beautiful, and fascinating, but has one extra feature that few other zoos/parks have: oppressive heat. It was 109° F Monday, while we walked around in the afternoon sun, and was a serious endeavor, but if you're up to it, it's an excellent place to go, year-round. It's cooler (a little) in the winter, but the park is open fewer hours.
Of course, I got to give my camera another good work-out, and got some good photographs, I think:
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A family of Bat Eared Foxes
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A few Ostrich
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A Green Heron sitting in a palm tree trunk
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This Mountain Lion looked so cute, napping in it's den.
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A single-horned Arabian Oryx (most have two horns).
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Two Night Herons
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A baby Gazelle
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A Red-Tailed Hawk
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One of a family of Coyotes, this one kept jumping up into the tree, I think just for the fun of it.
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And the climax of the trip was this group of three Giraffes. They were so beautiful and peaceful.
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