A national park is a place where people love to site see and acknowledge how our country has made a specific location to be protected. As well as why we protected national parks, such as endangered species. I always thought on this and that I will help protect the life of nature, and it’s precious life. Joshua Tree National Park has its perks and downfalls in many ways. Which is why I love the desert. The scorching heat on your skin from the sun, dry lips and the cold icy water hitting it going down your throat, hydrating yourself. The prickly bushes and trees hurt as you walk into it somehow, the dry dirt that is rough on your skin when you fall and hurt yourself leaving a multiple scratches with dirt in it. My hometown has so many …show more content…
California is a really great state to live in and my memories here is amazing. The main memory that I remember the most is when I spent my time at the Joshua Tree National Park, rock climbing and hiking. As well as memories that I was rock climbing and hiking at random places in the Mojave Desert. One memory when I was rock climbing/ hiking is when me and my older brother almost stepped on a adult diamondback rattlesnake. Luckily it was at the crack of dawn and winter where you can see your breath and feel the brisk cold, thus the snake was sunbathing and didn’t pay attention to us. My brother and I did not see it, but my father saw it and told us that we almost stepped on it. It was scary thinking that if either one of us stepped on the snake that we wouldn’t want to know what would happen. My father is kinda crazy in the mind, as much as wanting to show us how the snake attacks. Then he grabbed a stick started poking the deadly snake. The outcome is not what we expected. The snake decided to rattle and it’s head raised. You can hear the loud rattle and hisses and see the snakes fangs as it opens the wide jawed mouth. It did not want anything with us at all and went another direction than us and it was never seen