We only spent a few hours here – one afternoon and one morning. But my oh my what a wonderful place!
In case anyone wonders, what looks like haloing between the sky and the dune is actually blowing sand!
Postcard From White Sands, New Mexico
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One of my all-time favorite places. My first trip there I arrived early evening and the wind was whipping and the sand was blowing too strong to take the camera out. But, the next morning it was calm and the sun was warm and beautiful.
It was breezy the afternoon we arrived, but not to the point of endangering the equipment. The winds calmed down overnight, so the next morning many of the footprints remained, making the pursuit of “unspoiled” scenes more challenging.
That’s one place on my bucket list. I remember Paul Lester visited there and loved it. I experienced a lot of wind once while camping and photographing at the Grand Sand Dunes in Colorado. I woke up during the night with sand filtering inside my tent. The sand is still in the pores of that tent.
I don’t think I would want to camp there, but of course I don’t think there are many places I would want to camp! But that’s just me. It was definitely a worthwhile stop.