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| no partners | | I was planning to stay in Joshua Tree my for entire trip. Even tho I knew it rained in SoCal recently, I foolishly did not check to web-site for the latest road conditions beforehand.  To my dismay, all of Pinto Basin was closed, and only the north section was opened. Even Big Morongo Canyon was closed, even tho I was able to seek in there for an hour or so.
I was thinking about heading up to Big Bear Lake, but I don't know that area, and in the brochures it looks like it's more catered to people than wildlife, so I opted to go to Alamo Lake.
I spent 2.5 hours there and saw a few snakes, but then I got rained upon, so I headed out. Between Joshua Tree and Alamo Lake this week, I must've seen thousands or toads, frogs, and tadpoles. It was hard to avoid them all on the way home. I was able to avoid all of them, except one. 
On the way home tho, I saw and almost ran over a young badger, who seemed to have no fear of my car. Unfortunately, it was on the move. My camera sucks in low light, so I had to take action and get close to it. I've always heard that badgers are fearless and will not run from anything. I've even seen videos of them not backing down. I don't have a lot of experience with badgers (I've seen one another one in the wild), but since they are slow runners and move like porcupines, I thought that if I run toward it, that it would (like porcupines) stop and defend itself. I was wrong. Not all badgers are fearless, and this one run off. It was slow tho, and I could have caught it, but I did not want to hurt it or harass it too much, and let it go.
In retrospect, I could have walked slowly up to it and got a photo, but considering that my car was staled out in the middle of the road and was getting rained upon, time was not on my side and patience was not a virtue. If my roommate did not cancel on me, I would have gotten the photo. Instead, I'll leave you with some random photos of my car at the end of the photoset.  |
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