On our last afternoon, Tina, Morgan, and I finally hiked up to the forest fragments
There are just a couple of areas on top of the mountains by the coast where there are forests like those in the South of Chile- very different from the semi-arid landscape we were used to working in!
They get the perfect combination of cloud and rain to sustain them
The vegetation was so different from just down the mountain!
And who knew- we were so close to the ocean the whole time we were in a desert!
We met Juan when he was finishing up his work for the morning
And he explained a lot about the forest and the plants. He's worked in this park for 20 years!
We took a beautiful path back to the cabin, through fields of wildflowers with cactus. Bizarre.
And of course, our last day wouldn't be complete without another guanaco sighting!
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