{"id":2132,"date":"2021-02-11T00:00:28","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T07:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/retirement-rocks.com\/?p=2132"},"modified":"2022-01-04T17:31:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T00:31:53","slug":"sonoran-desert-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/retirement-rocks.com\/?p=2132","title":{"rendered":"Sonoran Desert Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2132\" class=\"elementor elementor-2132\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2228940 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2228940\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5710130\" data-id=\"5710130\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3b8295c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3b8295c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The Sonoran Desert Museum is a fusion of zoo, botanical garden, art gllery, natural history museum, and aquarium!\u00a0 The gardens showcase the Sonoran Desert&#8217;s ecosystem, home to over 2,000 species of plants and is known as the most lush desert on earth.\u00a0 It is also listed as #5 in the Top Ten U.S. Public Gardens.<\/p><p>Donna had never been to the Desert Museum before and I hadn&#8217;t been for years, so decided to do a day trip down!\u00a0 The drive in was amazing!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-fde55e9 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"fde55e9\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-12309bf\" data-id=\"12309bf\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cd967f7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"cd967f7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div 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https:\/\/retirement-rocks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DSC_8397a-1140x701.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-10d238d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"10d238d\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-284ad16\" data-id=\"284ad16\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-97e6362 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"97e6362\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>We walked by (or through) <em>Cat Canyon<\/em> (bobcats, a Grey Fox and an ocelot in natural settings), the <em>Riparian Corridor<\/em> (River Otters, Beavers, Bighorn Sheep), <em>Life Underground<\/em> (rigntail, Gila Monster, and other burrowing species), the <em>Hummingbird Aviary<\/em>, <em>Birds of the Sonoran Desert<\/em> in a large free-flight Aviary, <em>Life on the Rocks<\/em> (A multi-species exhibit featuring species most often seen on Tucson&#8217;s rocky slopes (striped skunks, a jackrabbit, frogs, snakes and lizards), <em>Mountain Woodland<\/em> (Mountain Lion, mule deer, Mexican Grey Wolves, and a Black Bear), <em>Desert Grassland<\/em> (a walk through towering soap tree yuccas, a variety of desert grasses interspersed with desert shrubs and succuents) and 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