Pinnacles NP

After returning from Midlothian we picked up Harvey and headed off to Pinnacles NP in California.  It became a National Park in 2013.  Had we realized it was a NP we would have stopped our first time thru California.  But our NP book was published in 2012 so Pinnacles was not listed.  In our quest to see as many National Parks as we can, we had to go back.  So glad we did.

The primary activity in the park is hiking. The scenery is great.

One hike takes you on a nice trail then into and thru a cave.  We needed flash lights and had to scramble thru some dark narrow sections of the cave.

These boulders have fallen and get stuck in these crevices.  They are called talus caves.

While in the park we were able to see several California Condors.  They fly pretty high so no pictures.  However each evening there were 20 to 30 turkey vulchers the roosted in a tree in the campground.

We left here a day early as the weather got too hot for us to hike...mid 90's by noon.