Remote Places that Remain Remote ...continued

• Large zalates (ficus palmeri) flourish in canyon above San Sebastian, 1967.
  After the güéribo, the zalate or wild fig is the second largest plant in the central and southern parts of the peninsula. These dissimilar species of trees share deep canyons at higher elevations of the sierras from 27 degrees N. Lat. southward to the Cape.
• Great Tinaja in Arroyo del Parral, 1971.
  Some water sources, like this many-thousand gallon catchment, are found in areas so inhospitable that they serve only as watering places for passing riders or packtrains. In all the sierras of the mid-peninsula, many tinajas such as this, called plunge pools by physiographers, are scooped out of the fairly soft volcanic agglomerate rock by the rush of waters following a summer storm.