I hope ya'll aren't tired of my pictures. This is White Sands National Park. It used to a National Monument, but then in November or December of 2019, it bacame a National Park. The Tee Shirts at the gift shop with National Monument are 25% off right now by the way.
We stopped here twice. It's one of my favorite parks, very, very few people and the area is almost alien. Also, it isn't sand, the white stuff is Gypsum.
Full disclosure: on the days we were here, it was bright blue sky, no clouds, so the photos with clouds have been helped along with Photoshop. But they are my pictures so no harm. The cloud pictures are mine also, but taken in Arizona. So a couple of the pictures show the before photoshop and after photoshop.
It's usually almost always windy in White Sands, and the ripples are wind formed. Plus, the dunes are moving because of all the wind. It will take a while, but eventually, the dunes will shuffle their way out of the park boundary.
before:
after:
This one was interesting. It was on the trip back, after the snow storm, and that is Sierra Blanca in NM. the peak is 12,004 feet. White Sands is about 50 or 60 miles away as the crow flies.
We stopped here twice. It's one of my favorite parks, very, very few people and the area is almost alien. Also, it isn't sand, the white stuff is Gypsum.
Full disclosure: on the days we were here, it was bright blue sky, no clouds, so the photos with clouds have been helped along with Photoshop. But they are my pictures so no harm. The cloud pictures are mine also, but taken in Arizona. So a couple of the pictures show the before photoshop and after photoshop.
It's usually almost always windy in White Sands, and the ripples are wind formed. Plus, the dunes are moving because of all the wind. It will take a while, but eventually, the dunes will shuffle their way out of the park boundary.
before:
after:
This one was interesting. It was on the trip back, after the snow storm, and that is Sierra Blanca in NM. the peak is 12,004 feet. White Sands is about 50 or 60 miles away as the crow flies.