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| 'Teddy bear' Cholla and Saguaro Cactus at sunset |
The Sonora Desert is a beautiful place and completely different from Kodiak. Kodiak is very wet with tall trees and Wickenburg completely dry with very little vegetation - mostly just 'bushes', some grass and cactuses. On arrival once you leave the city it is a stark reality. Here you are in the middle of something completely different. Leaving Phoenix the highway is pretty much a straight arrow on a flat plain and there are little mountain ranges sticking up in the distance on the edge of the 'pan'.
Walking in the desert I am always struck by the lack of soil. In the desert the ground is not soft and there are always exposed rocks and sand. The geology is RIGHT there for one to interpret. And then there are the cactuses (or more correctly cacti). Everything has thorns. Even the bushes. About the only thing without thorns is the grass and the greasewood.
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