SuperMarina's photos with the keyword: Death Valley

Desert Climates mean hot days and cold nights, so the only time to camp in Death Valley without freezing through the night is in the summer! We stayed at Wildrose Campground just because it is easy to reach and free (the payment system used out there doesn't always work) and the nights were actually quite pleasant. Days, on the other hand, were hot!

For some odd reason, the number of crows and ravens have been increasing in Southern California. They are everywhere, it seems. While they don't really bother me, they do annoy me by being quite difficult to photograph. All shiny and black!

No trees. No vegetation. But the mountains look pretty good naked, I think.

As we were heading down CA 190 towards Stovepipe Wells, we could see the moon over the mountains in the distance. It was a pretty sight so we stopped to take a few photos. However, our cameras were not quite able to capture what we saw while on the road, so I had to use Photoshop to recapture the sight. This is it. Maybe not exactly what we saw, but pretty darned close!

I've been told the first Star Wars movie was filmed out here somewhere.

Badwater, Death Valley National Park, California

Once upon a time...

In its heyday, Rhyolite, Nevada had electric lights, water mains, telephones, newspapers, a hospital, a school, an opera house, and a stock exchange. Sounds more civilized than Los Angeles today, though I'm not sure the Los Angeles Stock Exchange building being taken over by a nightclub (I'm showing my age here; is it still a nightclub?) indicates a decline in civilization, if one considers how Wall Street operates.