Rob will present a program based on his recent trip to Northern Chile, where the Atacama desert comes right down to the sea and home of Copiapoa, Eulychnia, Neochilenia and Eriosyce. Rob spent over two weeks this summer traveling hundreds of miles over dirt roads in some of the driest country on Earth. Among his traveling companions where last month's speaker Mark Muradian and fellow BCSS members Woody Minnich, Maynard Moe, and Stephen Cooley. Come to the meeting and see photos of giant clumps of Copiapoa, the likes of which have never been reproduced in cultivation.