Apostle Rev Colleen Etana's Trip Into The High Desert of CA

[Colleen Etana]

"March 27, 2013 - God's Living Bible - The Third Testament - God's New Revelations - Apostle Rev. Colleen Etana's - Travels for Research and Enlightenment - Turtleman



'A friend I met named Gary, alias Turtleman, was taking me into the CA High Desert, where we were to spend one night at a campground near Tuttle Creek, in the Owens Valley and Mono Lake area. This place is also one hour away from Death Valley.
He is a Conservationist who happens to work with and study the turtle population, also helping to create safe habitat areas in local rivers near where we both live, and is involved in animal husbandry.

We were very near Mt. Whitney, at an elevation of 14,494 ft, and it was the first night of the full moon.
He had been there many times before. But I hadn't. I was in for a treat and was excited.

It was about a two hour drive from where I live. I Packed an overnight case and some supplies for a short journey, and he picked me up around twelve noon.

We began our tour when we arrived at 2:00 pm, of some magnificent, rich, volcanic rock areas, with so many rocks it was like a Rock City. (Here's an idea for a novel Father.)

Some were almost three stories high. There were desert paths with small tumble weeds and brush winding their ways through and around these incredible rock formations.
I took several pictures and then we left to go secure a camp-spot right away, paid our fee and set up camp.

There is a very long mountain range that Mt. Whitney is a part of that goes in both directions as far as the eye can see. We were camping near a small mountain stream called Tuttle Creek. There weren't very many other campers, but a few.

He gave me the tour of the campground, we stopped and talked to some of the other campers, who were quite cordial. My friend actually knew a couple that also came from our neck of the woods back home.

Another couple told us that the next day they were going to hike two miles up into the mountains on a trail to see an ashram. Now that would have been really neat, but we had other plans. Maybe next time, Feeling Joyful.

The sun was beginning to set behind the mountain range, so we headed back to camp and started a fire.
I got out my little copper resin burner and as is my custom, lit some frankincense/myrrh and dragon's blood incense, asked God to bless the area with my prayers for a healing here.

We sat and chatted by the fire while we ate our sandwiches and watched the full moon come up. It was so huge and round it lit up the whole area and we could see our shadows at night!

We didn't stay up too long, and fell asleep to the sounds of the little creek flowing over rocks and tree branches, it was so soothing. I slept like a rock!

Woke at sunrise and I immediately went outside to the restrooms, said a quick morning prayer for a lovely day and went back to see what Gary was doing.

He was ready to show me around some more so we walked down alongside the creek and snuck up on a few small brown trout we spotted swimming in the tiny current and up against the beautiful banks under the shadows of overhanging tree branches.

There were many different types of plants and moss growing over rocks, yellow-headed blackbirds and finches chirped pretty little bird songs for our music. We saw butterflies, small lizards and some pesky mosquitoes too.

We didn't stay overly long for we were getting hungry and decided to go get breakfast in a nearby town that was so tiny if you blinked you would miss it.

We were too late for McDonald's, (You must have been looking out for me because I hate fast food but didn't want to sound too picky for my host, Feeling Joyful.) So we ate breakfast sub sandwiches from Subway instead. (Much better)

We stopped in some cute and quaint little shops and looked around a bit, I took some more pictures, then we were off again on the road heading towards home.

We also decided to stop at a spot where Gary had found some petroglyphs in a sort of rest area half way home. They were done by Native American Indians but I'm not sure when. He took some pictures of them and we left for home.

All in all it was a great trip and I had sorely needed a break to get out into Nature once again and rejuvenate.

And so I was,

Selah'