When you think of the desert does it conjure up images of a vast expanse of shifting sand dunes, devoid of vegetation or animal life? Well, such areas do exist in the Sonoran desert, but the Central Gulf Coast of Sonora, Mexico where the desert meets the Sea of Cortez, and where we spent the past six weeks does not fit that image. Here the landscape is dominated by huge saguaro cactus and other succulents, small trees, shrubs, including the Palo Verde Tree, Ironwood Tree, Limberbush, Creosote bush, Elephant Tree, and others that I can’t identify by name.
The climate is arid, summers are very hot and winters mild. Average rainfall is less than five inches and occurs mostly in summer. Spring arrives about the second week of March, heralded by the greening of shrubs and trees, budding cactus and many flowering shrubs and it really
begins to look lush. Small critters begin to emerge from their winter
burrows. Yes, there are snakes too, sidewinders and some harmless types, but we campers leave before they emerge, and let them have the place to themselves.
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