It is, but just one out of many down here. Sometime I’d like to come back and take the walking loop all the wa6 through these badlands. We really only scratched the surface this time.

What a surreal landscape.

That’s true, if you don’t count dinner at the Last Kind Place Saloon. Zabrieski Point is only about two miles from Furnace Creek, the booming cultural epicenter of the park. Easy for those folks to get up here - dash up for the sunrise and then drop back down for breakfast. We’d have stayed there too if it weren’t nearly twice as expensive.

Rock, and undoubtedly blue but probably not quite the hue shown here.

It would appear you weren't the only ones with the idea of being there at sunup. That looks to be as many people as you've seen in total over the past couple days.

What's that startlingly blue thing in the lower right quadrant? A rock? Can't think what else it might be but I don't know of many rocks that occur naturally in that color. I doubt it's a massive hunk of lapis lazuli.

Let it be known that you are a man of your word. Well done!

I saw a healthy looking coyote yesterday, near Kino Parkway. He had reddish fur, not the usual gray. He didn't pay us much mind, but trotted alongside the path for awhile.

There's more birds arriving. A thing this year seems to be hanging out on the railing right next to the path. My tandem friends have gotten several good photos as they pass by. There are advantages to having a stoker!

Coyotes being notorious omnivores, and this one, being a Death Valley native in particular must be quite resourceful finding plants, bugs, rodents and dead stuff on the road... Not to mention trashy discards by heedless tourists.

It certainly does, and in that landscape would be quite credible, likely even.

Forgot to mention what a great video that is!

Zing....!

That's a great one.

Very cool. How lucky to witness this rare occurrence.

So are we. Definitely a day to remember.