We needed to get out yesterday, sitting watching and waiting for this Shingle fire's update. So, we headed south on route 89 to the Coral Pink Sand Dune State Park. We have seen other sand dunes - the White Sands National Monument in New Mexico was impressive - not sand, but gypsum. These Coral Pink sand dunes are made out of Navajo sandstone from two different mountain ranges - with the wind blowing from Arizona north through these two passes, causes the sandstone to erode and tumble and become sand dunes. Pink? No, more like melon color. Pretty, wonder how anything can survive here. Saw/heard/felt lots of bugs, saw lizards, tracks of possible a gopher snake, tracks of small rodents. People out ATVing around the dunes, people hiking the interpretive trail like we were. Have to say you really had to watch for the next sign to know where you were heading to. Got a little lost at one point and Dave went up onto a dune and saw the next sign. Very hot and very taxing on your legs to walk the dunes. Amazing thing was the trail we followed around the dunes dropped drastically down and in order to continue on it, we had to slide down the dune. Boy is that sand soft. And got into our shoes, socks, I even fell to my knees at one point because of how soft and how deep I sunk into the sand. Nice to see, glad we did, we can compare to other sand dunes - this definitely was melon/coral, not pink!
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