Our adventure for the day is the Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park. The sand is quartz.
Infinite colors of greenery grow out of the sand. We are lucky enough to find two dead rare tiger beetles, which we bottle and plan to bring home to our Little Scientist granddaughter, Anya.
In our 1 1/2 hour trek in the sand, we see tracks from kangaroo rats and rattlesnakes, and the dung from a jackrabbit. It is 91 degrees and rough going slogging in the sand.
We watch the OHV's (what we call ATV's) on the dunes. There is a Grandma whose vehicle gets stuck and she can't get it unmired. Her grandsons are on a nearby dune but can't hear her calling due to the noise of their vehicles. We offer her water and stay with her until her grandsons finally realize she hasn't returned and come to help her.
On our way home, we encounter Moqui Cave. The owner bought it in the 1950's from a rancher and made it into a museum with dinosaur tracks and fluorescent rocks. The bar is made from geodes and other rocks with a veneer of laquer. It used to be the site of dances. The owner's grandson now runs it.
We see irrigation in odd places and wonder why the water is being sprayed on.
There is a pond (or a sinkhole?) right at the base of Red Rocks. There are lily pads blooming in it. They seem very out of place, albeit lovely.
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