A huge windstorm has wiped out cell service in Big Bend National Park here in Texas, so we have been scurrying to the Visitors Center every so often to check our email, get a weather report and make sure the real world out there is still okay. in the meantime, Big Bend has given us some incredible beauty and big surprises.
Big Bend has been full of surprises, including this surprised looking face in a tree!
It’s a huge park, and going anywhere is at least a 25 mile drive. But the drives are awesome! There are rock formations, badlands, cliffs, mountains, rivers and more.
The drives around the park are full of sweeping views.
Huge vistas dwarf an RV on the road in Big Bend
We’ve enjoyed some fabulous hike through boulder fields, to balancing rocks and into canyons with cliffs towering above us. But this place always keeps you on your toes. A few mornings ago, after enduring below-freezing temps overnight, we woke up to dense fog and lacy frost decorating everything.
There are cool rock formations everywhere.
A century plant flower is covered with glittering frost.
The Chisos Mountains were transformed by frilly frost on the trees.
Despite our red noses and beanie hats, we loved every icy minute we spent in this world of mini icicles, and we’re hoping it happens again! The delicate patterns on all the desert plants were exquisite. Pretty tendrils of ice on a yucca plant gave it a whole new look.
Graceful tendrils of ice and frost make pretty patterns on a yucca plant
And then, as quickly as it formed, the frost disappeared under the rising sun. Little birds began chirping again, and the wildflowers opened up to the warm sunshine.
Once the frost melted away, the wildflowers bloomed again.
Bird songs filled the air on some of our mountain hikes.
The day faded away with a beautiful sunset…
The sunsets at Big Bend have been beautiful
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Love Big Bend! Spent a beautiful Christmas there one year. There’s a great hike from the campground to a natural hot spring, right on the Rio Grand.
We loved the isolation of Big Bend. It is great to see it again through your eyes. 🙂