Desert in Bloom

March 2013 vacation: part 6 - Joshua Trees, Yucca, Wildflowers you name it. Everything in the desert was in bloom in the Lake Mead City/Grand Canyon Sky-Walk area. After driving the new bypass of Hoover Dam on hwy 93 we took the Pierce Ferry road. My husband wanted to revisit the South Cove launch. This is where he and a group of his friends pulled out their rafts after a 21 day rafting trip on the Colorado river through the Grand Canyon in 2008.

Couldn't resist a memory pic for him. This picture is from their trip going through Lava rapid.

South Cove launch

We then went on a photo taking spree! 

Here are just a few of the desert flowers/plants we found -

We stopped at the Lake Mead city overlook -

I took a panorama of the view -

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We then stopped to enjoy the many Joshua Trees that were in bloom -

We decided not to go to the Grand Canyon Sky-Walk as it is about 20 miles of unpaved road to get there, not what we wanted to do that day - maybe another trip.
On towards Kingman, Arizona.

next post, our destination "Flagstaff, Arizona"