Joshua Tree National Park, California - Serious Joshua Trees

When you drive from Phoenix to Las Vegas, you go through an area that is a Joshua Tree Forest.  Well, if you think that those are "trees", you are mistaken. Those are bushes.

THESE trees are TREES!  They are huge!

 Our picnic spot at Indian Cove.

 Lone trees in the middle of boulders.

 More examples of these huge joshua trees.

 We stopped at this rock formation.  It looks like a monkey face.

 Desert wild flowers

 And a final parting shot of a Joshua Tree with big boulders.

 I am sure that there are more things to see in the park, but this was a scouting drive through so I didn't have more than a few hours to explore.  I plan to return.