Boondocking in Wildflowers by a Sand Dune, Doug Berry
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- Опубліковано 14 кві 2024
- Doug Berry of the Eastern Sierra Region of California and Nevada boondocks at Big Dune Recreation area of the Amargosa Desert. A road trip from Coaldale visits the Belvada Hotel in Tonopah, Nevada. Continuing on from Esmeralda County to Nye County, Nevada to the desert wildflower bloom in the Amargosa Desert at the BLM Big Dune Recreation Area 6 miles from California. Kellie Zuniga, the museum curator of the Mineral County Museum of Hawthorne, Nevada comes along for the beauty of the desert wildflower bloom.
I just love those flowers! The Belvada is a nice luxury hotel. The sand dunes are such a strange geological land formation. It was a good trip.
Yes it was!
The flowers are wonderful! I just read an article that Saud Death Valley was in the starting stages of a Superbloom. I really wish I could get down there to see it! The desert looks beautiful with the snow-capped mountains in the distance. Beautiful hotel and the sand dunes look like fun! 😊 Great find on the 5 spots!!
Thank you Princess, Kellie found those 5 Spots, she has a keen eye. We were very close to the Bad water Basin, which is the lowest elevation. We should try to find more desert flowers for everyone! 🪻♥️🏜️
@@CalNeva I would love that!!
In Esmeralda County poor old Coaldale looks like a dead animal carcass at the side of the road. Great cellphone service
there however! Tonopah is a nice historic town. Like all the desert wildflowers that in bloom amid so much sagebrush
and other invasive weed like plants. The Big Dune is the sand from some of ancient Lake Lahontan's southern most reach
which covered the area up to 9000 years ago. Bit by bit it dried up over the centuries as the temperatures heated up and
overcame the Humboldt River's ability to feed it. The southwestern winds eventually piled sand up in that one area. Your
wildflower asides reminds me of another Texas UA-camr who has a potty mouth. LOL You guys rock as boondockers.
Great stuff guys! Steve from Chicago
Hi Steve, that is hilarious, descriptive, sad, and yet true about old Coaldale. A dead animal carcass on the side of the road. I have always liked Tonopah and am glad that they have those hotels looking so good. I imagine that there were some big trout swimming around that lake many years ago before it dried up. Of interest, I learned that sand along the coastline is different from that formed in the desert. Happy to hear you chime in!
Love the yellow desert flowers, I did wonder with all that snow if there would be a desert bloom this year. I hate graffiti, those buildings are such a sad contrast to the restored 1906 hotel in Tonopah. Those angel lamp posts are magnificent.🙏💕 I have such a 😍 for Victorian and Edwardian era things.
King Edward VII was right in that time period 1901-10 of the 1906 hotel in Tonopah ...so that makes complete sense, good call and I learned something new. Totally agree about the sloppy graffiti ...occasionally, like the Indian Head that fits the contours of the boulder up at the Beaver pond by Lundy Lake, for example, it may be considered art when well executed, but in general graffiti is pointless, moronically simple, below primitive and ugly. Real artists use proportional balance, texture, and basic tools such as the color wheel. The angel posts were visually appealing because of the skill in forming perfected lines in a difficult metallic medium. I liked how the video came out, by mere chance, as a comparison and contrast between the roadside ruins and the recently renovated hotel: deteriorating chaos versus order, form, and beauty. I bet the gardens near you in that climate can grow some spectacular🌺 flowers! We should have a good spring flush here and will do our best to share the with you my Marie! 🌹🪻🌵💐🪷🏵️🌻
@@CalNeva Thanks so much for your reply. Yes, definitely tropical plants do very well with the climate here in South Florida. Fruits like mangos, avocados,and coconuts grow without any effort. I love roses, but they are a challenge here and they have to be adaptable to the heat and humidity. I agree about the art, if it is mural art, a good artist can add spectacular color to an area. 💕
@@mariemorgan7759 I agree about the murals adding color by the skilled artist. I bet those tropical fruits are really good there. Here in the desert the dry air helps the roses, we even have a memorial rose garden here in town. Have a great day my friend, time to turn in 🌛, catch you next time. 💯🙏
Hi Brother Doug and Kellie! I have to make it quick, got to get to the barber shop...getting too shaggy, ha. Great views, nice flowers ! Surprised at the mushrooms in the desert ! I don't remember seeing those before. Always something new to see 👀
Have fun 😊 🇺🇸
Thank you my Brother! I know how it feels to get shaggy, good job cleaning up your act, she will appreciate it! 🇺🇸👍
@@CalNeva ok, I'm back from the sheep 🐑 shearing! It had grown out to almost an inch long! Shameful ! I really let myself go....lol 🇺🇸
@@Brother_D_therail Ok, now don't let it happen again. 🦁
What an interesting time you both must've had, going to the the various locations... including an abandoned site, to various towns, each offering its own particular uniqueness. From a desolute desert, to a place covered in gorgeous, blooming flowers, you had such a wide range of experiences. Thanks for sharing all of this with us, Doug and Kellie. That camp area looked so idyllic. As always, Doug, the info you share is so appreciated 🏕
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Hello Rhonda, I knew you like the flowers, but of course I know you enjoy the animals better ...so we stopped by the dairy to get you some great cow footage. She was so sassy, but all I had to do is say "cheese" and Bossy stopped chewing her cud long enough to pose for a picture just for you Rhonda. We saw a lot of burros in the desert, but they were having none of that camera action whatsoever. Nonetheless, we will keep trying to get more animals on film. The variety of blooming Flora in the Amargosa Desert is abstruse, surprising, and plain down right groovy.
@@CalNeva Ohhh, Doug, that was so thoughtful. I do enjoy seeing the animals that are native to the regions you visit. I am always amazed at the wide, open areas where you are. Have a wonderful evening, Doug, and thank you for exposing us to so many scenarios that some of us have never
encountered, or experienced.
🏡🙏🏻 🏜 🐄 🐄 🌼 🌞👏🏻
@@rhondaz356 It has been a good time sharing it with everyone! ♥️
I have traveled on Highway 95 several times. My wife took my picture in front of the Goldfield Hotel in 2015. You should show the Rawhide Jail in Hawthorne. I saw it in Rawhide when I was on a prospecting trip with my father, uncle and father-in-law in 1985. Back then there wasn't much left of it. Did you know that Wovoka (Jack Wilson) is buried at the Paiute Cemetery at Schurz? He started the Ghost Dance. I've read about him in several western books. I loved seeing the snow on the White Mountains from your video and the desert flowers. I will be looking forward to your next video Doug and Kellie.
Hi Charlie! Kellie and I were filming in front of the Rawhide Jail just yesterday by the Mineral County Courthouse in Hawthorne. We are doing a video about a Hawthorne Walking tour that Kellie put together and the jail is on it. Also, we were just up by Rawhide recently but did not trust the road from the modern mine (which recently ceased operations). And....I am familiar with the history of the Ghost Dance and there is a plaque in Wilson Canyon along the Walker River talking about him growing up on the ranch near there. I can tell you know your stuff.
Yes, the yellow flower is the desert sunflower. I heard the name mentioned on another YT channel the other day....Enjoyed the day trip to the dunes....until the next one !!
Glad to have you along with us!
Wonderful seeing new territory from my armchair ! Thanks as always!
Doesn't seem that long ago there wasn't hardly any paint at all on Coaldale!
They sure dropped some coin
On the Belvada remodel!
My friend Victor did alot of the plumbing on the Mispah
remodel,I wonder if he got into the action of the Belvada project.
Great dune walk guys!
Hi Tim! I can't understand why people want to waste money on cheap paint to paint unskilled graffiti. Yes, the Owners dropped some coin on those two hotels in Tonopah and it shows. Glad you have an armchair, I had pictured you sitting on an old coil spool in the cabin as the cold wind blew thru the cracks of your rustic cabin perched on the windy hillside. I want to walk some more dunes!
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Your clairvoyance amazes me Doug! Only your image of me is about 50 years late
Yes indeed ! I did live almost to
a t what you describe as my living situation .It was west of Yosemite Park in a run down cabin in a community of accomplished but derelict
Rock climbers! Wild times
In the western Sierra!
I'd like to stay at the Belvada hotel one day, happy trails.
You WILL Freedom Rider, have an awesome trip!
Doug and Kellie of Arabia.i think i see Lawrence😅.will watch later just had to comment
Hi Casey, we were a lot closer to where you are then usual; it was a good time boondocking in the desert!
A nice presentation. Lots of open spaces. The Big Dune area seems much like Glamis used to be.
Thank you! The Algodones Dunes; I had to look that up....really interesting at the Glamis area; fascinating to me. I thought I had been everywhere, but have never spent any time there. I imagine winter could be pleasant there, even with all the sand. I have to get farther south Joseph; but I don't like crowds (the cold wind keeps it sparse).
@@CalNeva Glamis now days has Rangers and Fees. Yuma has good weather but -- type in Yuma, Az. Immigrant crisis. Might I suggest Tombstone, Arizona or someplace near there. The Gila Valley, Graham County nearby that my ancestors settled is also good.
So cool! Those Dunes look sooooo out of place but very interesting! Do you both ever get concerned about getting stuck without 4 wheel drive? Just a thought as you get out there far. Great video and Kellie is the best! She’s a keeper for sure!
Hello Carl! We always consider where we are going without a high clearance 4 WD, but even then you can get stuck. Recently, we had to turn around from going to the old cemetery at Rawhide, NV because of a poor dirt road. Kellie has a sharp eye for rocks and is a good driver, so that works out great!
Fun. Nice that season allows camping and wildflowers. Missed the DB tune. Is that sound an amplified accoustic guitar with a wah/wah?
Hi Steven, I think so. I will try to put the music on next time. Weather pleasant in the desert now.
nice campsite did it take a long time to set up that tent?
Hi! No, not long, only about 12 minutes, and faster to take down. The wooden stakes take the longest to pound in, but important for the wind. We are both used to setting up a tent and camp. Thank you for coming along!