On this visit, for the first time, we went down into the caldera on the paved road that goes back a little ways to allow visitors to actually enter the basin.
The views, as always, are just spectacular, but on this visit, we had an added bonus -- we spotted a herd of elk, with the male elk guarding his herd of probably 50 females as they grazed in the caldera. It was really something interesting to see!
The elk herd:
Watching the elk herd with a nice young family we met:
Areas of burned trees were all over the Jemez area near Los Alamos; it was a heartbreaking sight to see:
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I think the NM Bureau of Sayin' Nice Things About and Posting Great Pictures of New Mexico otta hire you, Sharon. Your stuff is better than than official tourism stuff I see. Do you do video, too? ;-)
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