We arrived at Salt Creek before sunrise, planning to walk down to the end of the boardwalk and photograph some further areas at dawn. It used to be that you could continue on from there and investigate other interesting terrain, but there is now no obvious way off the boardwalk, likely because the park service is trying to protect those areas. So we photographed from the boardwalk as the sun came up.
This entire area was badly damaged by flooding over a year ago, and it had been closed ever since for repairs, notably the new boardwalk. It had opened between our late-December 2024 visit and this return trip in late February. We were surprised that no one else was there in the early morning, not even when we finished photographing after sunrise. I made this photograph, facing directly into the rising sun, as we walked back to our vehicle.
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