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| Utah Rocks! |
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| Tunnel entry to Red Canyon |
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| Evening Primrose |
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| Cookie Cutter HooDoo? |
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| Not sure, but sure pretty! |
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| Looks like a hoodoo hatchery |
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| Looks like driftwood, but no ocean.... |
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Red, Red and more Red...
From Sedona to Zion to the Coral Pink Sand Dunes to Bryce and then, today, the Red Canyon there is definitely an abundance of red rock/sand in Utah! But every area has its own distinctive hue and "style" of rock formations. And nothing like I've ever seen on the East coast. We travelled 15 miles from camp today to visit the Red Canyon in the Dixie National Forest. We enjoyed a fairly easy 1 mile hike with not only beautiful rock formations, but also some of the prettiest wildflowers I've seen.
We did the Pink Ledges Trail (and a little bit of the HooDoo Trail when we took a wrong turn) and here are just a few of our 'finds':
We closed out our day with a trip to a lapidary/rock shop where we each found some nice specimens for making jewelry and then a stop at a bakery where we drooled over and then had to buy some fresh rosemary/olive oil bread and assorted sweet treats from the day-old but still yummy counter. The winds continue to blow like crazy - strongest winds I've ever experienced other than hurricane.
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Wow! Thank you for so many great photographs, and the narrative along with them. Now I want to get out there even more!
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