White Sands National Monumemt ☀️

WOW! We finally made it to this site! It has been on my bucket list for almost two years, since I first heard of it! It is a photographers dream! Or if you’re like me and are one to “Do it for the gram” then it’s for you!! It is such a beautiful site to see! The sand is so white you can barely see with out glasses. The sand is so soft and the dunes are everywhere. I did a little research to see how that ended up that way. Here’s what Wikipedia said….

During the Permian Period, shallow seas covered the area that today forms White Sands National Monument. The seas left behind gypsum, and subsequent tectonic activity lifted areas of the gypsum-rich seabed to form part of the San Andres and Sacramento Mountains. Over time, rain dissolved the water-soluble gypsum in the mountains, and rivers carried it to the Tularosa Basin, which has no outlet to the sea. The trapped water sank into the ground or formed shallow pools that subsequently dried out, leaving gypsum on the surface in a crystalline form called selenite. 

So there you have it! That’s how the sand got there! We are headed to the Rocky Mountains in Colorado so we took the long way to make sure we would see it. One too is to make sure and check them out on Facebook before you head that way because the so close often for missile testing. I know intense right?

I’ll post some photos here

Let me know what’s on your bucket list!!