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This is one of the few tall trees in the area. I was surprised that they didn't import some eucalyptus trees because Yuma certainly needs shade trees. Maybe eucalyptus don't grow in that heat. Ling, who works at the Santa Barbara Botanical Gardens, told me that this tree
"looks like a cottonwood with Tamarix in the understory."

This bush had some interesting buds that turn fuzzy when they open. See next shot for the fuzzies. Ling asked the trained botanists about this plant.
"[It] depicts an introduced plant, Tamarix (Tamarix ramosissima (Tamarisk or Salt Cedar) Deciduous shrubs or small trees growing to 12 -15 feet in height and forming dense thickets. Saltcedars are characterized by slender branches and gray-green foliage. The bark of young branches is smooth and reddish-brown. As the plants age, the bark becomes brownish-purple, ridged and furrowed. Leaves are scale-like, about 1/16 inch long and overlap each other along the stem. They are often encrusted with salt secretions. From March to September, large numbers of pink to white flowers appear in dense masses on 2-inch long spikes at branch tips. Often in saline habitats, washes, streambanks, ditches. Common. Native to east Asia. http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/fact/tama1.htm."

These are the fuzzies that the previous picture's buds become.

This was a cool serpent-like lizard. It moved almost snake-like, but had features of a lizard.

To get to Fortuna Pond, you follow the upper levee road.

Upper levee road.

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