White Sands National Monument

Ed goes down, originally uploaded by Edgee.

I’m having a little fun at White Sands National Monument. The sand is made of gypsum, which makes it the softest sand that I ever jumped in. We were on our way to Albuquerque, New Mexico when we stopped here to play in the sand. We passed through a border patrol inspection station just before we arrived at White Sands. After seeing our large, orange kayak on the roof of our car, the border patrol agent kindly reminded us there is no water in White Sands. Our kayak is too large and dangerous to use on the dunes, but other visitors to the monument were sledding down the dunes with other equipment, even snowboards.