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Our first visit to Utah - but we didn't come for the skiing
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We entered Utah from the southwest
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We were immediately impressed by the scenery
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In the Zion Canyon area
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The colors are magnificent
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Red means iron oxide - or rust
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White generally means calcium carbonate
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The Zion Nat'l Park Vistor Center
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Everywhere you look, a Wow"
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The Three Prophets - Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
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Isaac, Jacob, and a craggy white backdrop
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Black streaks usually mean manganese seepage
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Erosion leaves the hardest rocks
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In wetter times, water flows, leaving those stains
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Many layers of different types of rocks
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The canyon was cut by the Virgin River - widened by weather & rock fall
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Some places the cliffs are undercut
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Hard to see, but the trail goes behind the waterfall
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A player of a native flute, serenading the canyon
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Judy had to compare notes - he's from San Jose
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A view from our gentle 1 mile canyon walk
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There's more water earlier in the spring
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The water cascades from several places on the cliff
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Made us think of ancient Indian dwellings
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Columbine grows wild in the damp places
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Awesomeness everywhere we looked!
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Lots of people took this canyon walk - short and easy and beautiful
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"A River Flows Through It"
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Not a lot of water, but what a job it did!
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People climb up there (not us)
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The Weeping Cliffs
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Great smile
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Everywhere you look.......
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That camera just keeps finding things!
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The canyon is quiet and serene - even with the tourists
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Love those rainbow cliffs
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Didn't we already take one of this crag??
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Can you spot the hikers in the middle of the frame?
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These two rocks right of center are the "pulpit" and the "altar"
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Can't remember what this is called
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Leaving Zion, on the way to Bryce Canyon
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Getting cricks in the neck from looking up
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A new gorgeous view around every corner
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A gallery in the mile long tunnel to the east park
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Zion says it's a bigger arch than at Arches Monument. Arches disagrees.
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Looking out from inside the tunnel
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Exiting the tunnel
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Cool colors
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Another gorgeous view
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It's called "Checkerboard Mountain"
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Nature's art
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"Rust" doesn't sound as good as "iron oxide"
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Spectacular canyons
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Approaching Red Rocks State Park
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We don't know why this area is called "Dixie" - have to look it up
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On the way to Bryce Canyon, sort of a preview
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And we thought Zion rocks were spectacular!
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They're really this red
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Castles in the air
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We both took lots of shots of this view
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That is just amazing . . .
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Get ready for even more spectacular views
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Told ya . .
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The lighter colored rock is harder, and protects the softer rock below
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Amazing colors
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Spires as far as the eye can see
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Really!
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Lots of people hike down in there - not us
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Awww
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There are some of those hikers
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They are more adventurous than we
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They looked even better the higher up we got
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Judy didn't get too close to the edge
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A lo-o-ong way down
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Good grief, guys!
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Reminds us of a Bloomin' Onion at Outback Steak House
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Waiting for Judy
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More wonders everywhere we look
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Turn a corner and find a whole new landscape
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Another neat formation
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There she is - hanging on for dear life
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There's a town down beyond that mesa
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Wonderful how trees survive here
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Don't look down, Judy!
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Wonderful vista
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Beautiful
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Hoodoos and spires
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Judy in a hole in a canyon wall
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Al's up there somewhere - Judy took this shot from that hole
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Aha . .there he is!
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Click, click, click.....
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click....
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The main "Amphitheater" at Bryce Canyon
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Each shift of direction and the colors change
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Giant teeth?
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Colorful spires
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Those trees are wa-a-y down there
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Some trees will grow just about anywhere
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Probably not a Bristlecone Pine, which are the oldest trees alive
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Another wonderful view
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And another....
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Judy hiked up while Al waited down there
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Al takes a picture of Judy taking a picture of Al
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Triple Awwww - the babies are out!
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Curious and cautious
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Momma stands watch
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More wonderful spires
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Around the corner, another canyon"
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Makes you want to sing the song from Camelot
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Or maybe Spamalot
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These white spires are 50-100 feet high
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These canyons go on for miles and miles
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Another cathedral
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A tree with a view
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Words fail
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Add your comment here -----
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These views defy description
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Now, that is beautiful!
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They're not caves - they're grottos
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More hoodoos
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Some mornings we feel just like that . . .
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That zoom lens catches some good stuff
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What'd we tell you?
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Looking down on Judy looking down
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Wa-a-a-y down
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Another grotto, close up
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How do they stand like that?
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So much for that rugged biker image . . .
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What, it's not red?
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Castle walls?
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Great formations down there
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And there...
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More grottos
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Looks a lot like that other shot!
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They call it the Natural Bridge, but it's really an arch
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And some neat balancing rocks
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You couldn't build that if you wanted to
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A white castle
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Gotta zoom in on some of that
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There it is, close up
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Another close up
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Gorgeous
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We didn't hike down there
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How'd that tree stump get there?
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Wow!
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We never got tired of the views
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Neat colors
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We saw this before, but the light changes everything
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Bighorn Sheep!
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We spotted a group (herd? flock?) of about 15 animals
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We decided they must have velcro feet
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There were a couple males, but mostly females
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Handsome beast
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But . . . but . . . . . . but . . .
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They were wary, but not spooked
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The King of the Hill
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How do they do that?
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Over the hill and away they go
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Coming back thru the tunnel, looking out the windows
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Sunset brings special colors
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Hard to capture the whole effect
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Didn't stop us from trying
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Pictures don't do it justice
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Dennis Toney would know how to photograph that
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Around every corner, Judy hollers "stop!"
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Marvelous as the sun goes down
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Lots of people stopped to appreciate this valley view
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Marvelous
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Sun-kissed
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Easier than turning around
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Almost back to the RV park
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You gotta keep hydrated
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Our second day at Zion
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You can walk a mile further up this canyon past the road end
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In hot weather, everything takes a break now and then
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Wonderful colors left by dribbling waters
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Hanging gardens happen when water seeps out of the rock
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Calcium nodules under a wet rock cliff
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The drippage is actually building stalactites!
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The river that made the canyon
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Water moves faster near the head of the canyon
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The canyon narrows to just about river width
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We took their picture, they took ours
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We liked the clouds . . .
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Looks really cool (wasn't, though!)
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In the middle of all this grandeur, another little begger
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The water is pretty cold, but folks do enjoy it
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Here's the end of that mile-long trail - you can walk up the river from here
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Naturally, Judy goes beyond the end (but only a few yards)
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The result of another picture swap
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Awesome formations
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The Zion shuttle buses were free, and much appreciated
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Great camouflage - he's about 10 inches long
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Where they hide the empty shuttle buses
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Look up!
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Headed north toward Salt Lake City - It's 100 degrees down here!
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Truck blew a tire and started this - not ours, though, thank Goodness
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Along I-15 northbound
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One of the lawnmowers at our RV park
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The cottonwoods were really producing snow
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On the shores of Great Salt Lake
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That's the beach. No thank you.
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Saltair is a former bathing resort at Great Salt Lake
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Now it's mostly used as a venue for rock concerts
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Swallows under the eaves at Saltair
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On the beach
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At the Saltair Marina - boats here must have steel hulls
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The gulls were determined to attack our car
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The lake is an average of 8 times saltier than the ocean
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It's teeming with brine shrimp and, in season, brine flies
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It's the flies that attract the birds - millions of birds
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This is where the California Gulls come to breed. Then, back to the ocean
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Folks getting ready for a sail
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Saltair was built as a family resort around the 1860's
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In Temple Square, the Mormon Temple
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Atop the Joseph Smith Memorial Building
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Statuary in the garden - Joseph Smith annointed by the apostles
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More Temple
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The rear of the Temple
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Inside the Tabernacle, where the Choir sings
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Neat looking building
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A road going to the RV park, but too steep for our motor home
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Neat formation along I-84 east of Ogden
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Parallel rock ridges? Massive spinal column?
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Artwork on Antelope Island
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About 1% of the island's population of bison
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Antelope Island is accessed by that 7 mile causeway
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Costs $9 a car to cross the causeway to the park
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The beaches are mostly white sand, not salt
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They say the bottom of the lake is up to 6 feet of solid salt
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Mouthy little beggar - loud, too
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So graceful in flight
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Two more bison. Never did see any close up
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But we did see pronghorn
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Look at all those prongs
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They weren't scared, but they were very aware of us
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There were about a dozen animals all together
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Well fed and relaxed, looks like"
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Pronghorn died out on the island when their food source was depleted
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They re-introduced pronghorn to the island, and sage brush is recovering
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Lots of decorated bisons
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One more bison
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The black stuff is dead brine flies, which birds eat
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Outside the Hill AFB Aerospace Museum
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Replica of the Wright Flyer
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Neat pun
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Cool nose art
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Those WWII warbirds are really neat
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Bomb with a nickname
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Pointy nose
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A Korean-War-Era Russian MIG fighter
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They lighted up the inner workings - very impressive
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Phantastic
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Phantastic pilots
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The legendary Blackbird. Still the fastest plane ever flown
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BIG helicopter
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Cool colors - the Tiger
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They were set up for the dedication of a new acquisition
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This may have been it...
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But we think it was this one
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That plane's about as old as Al, but better maintained
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This one's being restored
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Weaponry under the wing
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The Jolley Roger
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More planes outside
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One big transport
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Why you shouldn't drive on the salt flats.