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Yuccas are plentiful on the west side of Tortugas

Becca and I saw something we've not seen before in the desert:  a Coyote chasing another at full speed.  Becca was first to spot the lead canid; it was running so fast it took me a second to note that it was a small Coyote rather than a fox.  We both saw the pursuer at the same time; it, too was running at top speed.  In a very short time, though, the pursuit stopped, and I was only able to get a few inferior shots of the pursuer.  I imagine what we were seeing was a territorial dispute, and the bigger (perhaps older) Coyote was running the first one off.

A watchful eye

Looking back at the way we've just come

Torrey Yucca on the western slope

Beach bunny

Closeup of the cute profile

The pursuer

Giving up and turning around

Pretty far west of Tortugas

Leafless Ocotillos poking into the sky

Becca spots a mountain biker way over on Geothermal Drive

Do you know the way to the mountains?

This is the way west

Desert Marigold still in flower on November 30th

This and the rest:  reddish-orange Ocotillo wands