Today is another one where the pictures will give a much better idea than my words could. We set out from Springdale through Zion National Park. This third pass through was good because the lighting was completely different and once again very impressive. It was a long run to Bryce Canyon gradually climbing through varying country. We ran for some time through a wide flat valley which contained a wildly meandering creek. The meadows were green but the hills were dry. Rabbits were playing in the meadow. There was a field of longhorn cattle as well as some ostriches.
Bryce Canyon is a series of amphitheaters with wild rock shapes called hoodoos. The colors of the rocks varied considerably to make a very impressive show.
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Lunch was close by with the usual enormous helpings. The elk burger was nothing to write home about.
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The run to Page took two and a half hours through mainly open country with the occasional rock outcrops, some of them highly colored. We stopped at the Glen Canyon dam visitor centre to see the dam and the road bridge over the canyon. We were taken into the Antelope Canyon in a four wheel drive van driven by a Navajo lady who lived in Page with her husband and three children. Once off the road we ran along a dry sandy river bed to the entrance of the canyon entrance. She adjusted my camera and then took us into the canyon. It is a very narrow slot which has been eroded through time into fantastic shapes. The sun shining through produces some amazing lighting effects and my pictures are surreal.
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