November 18 Saturday 2012 We get an early start as we have a hike at Bear Creek park- a new place for me. Clark and Shelia meet us at 8 am in La Quinta. Our guide talks about the history of La Quinta. He tells us about the Bradshaw trail and Point Happy Also how in 1926 Walter Morgan and Gordon Kaufman built the La Quinta hotel which quickly became the favorite getaway for Hollywood legends Errol Flinn, Greta Garbo and Betty Davis. The Cove was La Quinta's first residential development begun in 1930. My next exciting thing is a night hike in Thousand Palms preserve. We meet at 5:30. Our first find is a wolf spider, then a black widow spider both very common in the area. Next our guide pulls out a bat finder and sure enough a bat responds and we see him flying. The most exciting thing is when Doni gives us a black light flashlight and we find scorpions. Awesome we find about a dozen. REMEMBER- tough times never last, tough people do