Inn the morning we met Mary and John at the visitor center and walked around the Oasis Mara which used to have water running out of the ground but not since 1947. Next we drove to skull rock and hiked the trail to the campground. This was quite nice, lots of native plants and beautiful rocks. Mary and John left us around noon. We all went to 29 palms and ate lunch at the Hamburger Carousel. I had a burger on a bun with thousand island sauce and fries. This was a unique restaurant. Good local diner food. We went back into the park and drove to the South end which was the cotton springs end. Due to road construction we had a 20 minute delay. Enjoyed the desert at the stop. Went down to a wash below the visitors center and enjoyed the wildflowers. I also discovered quite a bit of gold in the stream. We collected a baggy of rocks and took lots of pictures. For dinner we went to Rocky's NY Pizza in downtown. You order at a window and the lady brings the food to your table. We had some Red Trolly Ale with a large mushroom pizza.