ppine, I wish I could say it was skill. It was luck, this time. Often, we try to plan trips around natural phenomena -- the eclipse, a meteor shower, the changing of the aspens, etc. Sometimes it works out -- sometimes not. In this instance, we had no idea it was lambing season in the desert -- just luck.
It is sort of like fishing -- if you spend a lot of time with bait on your hook and your hook in the water, you will probably catch more fish than otherwise. Same with camping and hiking -- we spend a lot of time outdoors, 90 days a year of camping and another 30 days of surfing. Most of the time, it is just fun, but nothing amazing happens. But once in a while there is a brilliant sunset, or a double rainbow, or a bear (seen from a safe distance), or dolphins surfing alongside us, etc.
Here is just one other example of the "happy accident" theory -- we went to Canada and someone on this forum gave us a tip to stay at Peter Lougheed Provincial Park. We stumbled onto a lakeside campsite, but there was no view -- just low clouds and fog. There was cold rain and slushy snow during the night. In the morning, there was this bright orange glow that penetrated through our blackout curtains. We opened the door, and this is what we saw:
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