Let the endless pics of sand dunerie begin!
Why, i believe it is a dunester!
Looking like an axolotyl ready to snatch you up for breakfast, all you had to do was walk toward it.
Again, the scale of the place is hard to fathom until you start walking, or better yet, until you see those who have walked ahead of you…
This is as far as i made it and it was only half way up.
half. way. up.
If i had brought some water or chapstick i would have gone up further. The parking lot is at the edge of the sand. It took 33 minutes to get this far and instead of my dogs barking, it was my thighs.
This was what i was aiming for….the tippy top of a dune. Lord knows what other ones were beyond that.
This one was easier to get to, but what you are seeing are the tracks of folks going down. You can see the different walking strategies at work.
This baby hill was enough for these folks who were happy enough to sandboard down it and slog back up to do it all over again.
The left proves the point that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line.
The right picture captures that point when you think to yourself, “what was i thinking?”
Seems reasonable until you have to go up for the third time 🙂
And my time at the park had expired. I got in with my Lifetime Pass which saved me $24. The ranger at the station would not just accept the pass and also asked for a driver’s license to verify that both names were the same. They were. 🙂
The clouds which had been gathering in both number and darkness and finally started to yield some rain. The experienced dune buffs figured as much and at this time of the day started to head inland. One of the signs at the visitors center said that lightening will hit the sand and if you hear it in the distance then that is your cosmic clue to get outta Dodge.
This pic is on the way out of the park not because i was a wise dune buff who knew when to leave, but rather because i was a tired pup. I had some green tea in the car and my thirst was minimized. Not quenched, just minimized.
This poor little landform was getting pummeled all the way to the hotel. The cloud above it refused to budge and shifted only a little to the left.
The Big World 