This is the last picture I have of the White Rim Trail.
These cyclists camp out, while someone like me will have a camper van, hopefully, to pick me up each evening.
Although it looks like waste land in this photo, the park rangers expect you to treat it like the precious land it is, and to respect the stuggle that life forms contend with in this arid area.
The ground is not dirt, as it looks like, but is a lichen-like form that holds in water and helps keep the desert alive with its sparse flowers, cactii, birds, mice, snakes, coyotes etc.
When I was in Yuma, Arizona, sidewinder trails are everywhere in the sand so you always have to be on the lookout for them and other poisonous snakes when camping, biking, and hiking.
I will have to be on the lookout for rattlesnakes in parts of BC and the prairies, and also a few places in ON. I want so much to take a dog with me, and this would be the biggest danger for it as I see it, as a dog running ahead of a bicycle might not be heard in time for a snake to do anything but attack.
If I do take a dog, I will get a small light bike trailer so its rattling might raise the alarm. Of course, as I've said before, then I will never get any nature shots except landscape pictures. Such a quandry. Yet to be resolved.
Happy International Woman's Day, Ladies.
Do something special for yourself today.
Karen
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