Tortoise Crossing in the Mojave Desert
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Facedances
N 34° 55.652 W 116° 46.624
11S E 520360 N 3865029
A Desert Tortoise saved by four geocachers from Pennsylvania.
Waymark Code: WMCDYR
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 08/26/2011
Views: 29
In order to escape the harsh winter in Erie, PA, four geocaching friends, Tprints, UCcacher, Joelmart, and I headed for Nevada, California, Arizona, and Utah.
While caching in our rented minivan in the California desert, we came upon a Desert Tortoise on Sunrise Canyon Road (not much of a road, but a road nonetheless). The road was very narrow, so there was no going around it.
Being from the east, we thought it was pretty cool to see such a thing (we're easily amused). We all took pictures of it before moving it out of our way so we could drive by to the next geocache.
Species Link: [Web Link]
How often turtles cross: 
Months most seen crossing: Not listed
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