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A colourful and very long freight train crosses the Ivanpah Valley a couple of miles down the fan from my tent

7681-train.jpg A few purple sages bloom on this part of the old Mojave Road amongst the yellow flowersThumbnailsA bit further up Brant Road, I stop to look across the tortoise's habitat, and down toward Ivanpah Dry LakeA few purple sages bloom on this part of the old Mojave Road amongst the yellow flowersThumbnailsA bit further up Brant Road, I stop to look across the tortoise's habitat, and down toward Ivanpah Dry LakeA few purple sages bloom on this part of the old Mojave Road amongst the yellow flowersThumbnailsA bit further up Brant Road, I stop to look across the tortoise's habitat, and down toward Ivanpah Dry LakeA few purple sages bloom on this part of the old Mojave Road amongst the yellow flowersThumbnailsA bit further up Brant Road, I stop to look across the tortoise's habitat, and down toward Ivanpah Dry LakeA few purple sages bloom on this part of the old Mojave Road amongst the yellow flowersThumbnailsA bit further up Brant Road, I stop to look across the tortoise's habitat, and down toward Ivanpah Dry Lake

Alternating blue and rust rectangles stripe a snake quite different from those usually seen in the Mojave Desert.