Our last day on the Colorado Plateau. We’ve spent the last ten days on it and we’ve still only seen a fraction of what there is to see. The Colorado Plateau takes in part of four states – Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah, and is massive in size. It’s mind blowing to think that all the landscapes we’re been admiring have been produced by one river system, namely the Colorado and its tributaries.
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| Dead Horse Point State Park and the Colorado River |
It’s hard to find new adjectives to describe the things we’ve seen. To try and keep things in perspective I try and compare with places we’ve seen back home ( the Warrumbungles, Kings Canyon, Bungle Bungles etc). The truth is there just isn’t any comparison.
I think we’ve taken about 1000 photos each so far and although there’s a lot of culling to be done that just indicates the variety of things we’ve seen and experienced.
This morning we drove up the Colorado River canyon – even this far upstream it’s still a mighty river and the canyon it’s carved out is just as impressive as those further downstream.
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| View from Grandview Point, Island in the Sky |
After lunch we travelled to Dead Horse Point State Park and the the Island in the Sky section of Canyonlands NP. It’s called the Island in the Sky because it’s a huge plateau area surrounded on all sides by steep cliffs and with only a narrow neck of land providing access.
Tomorrow (Tuesday) we head to Vernal and along the way visit Dinosaur National Monument.
The last few days it has been over 30 degrees each day but it looks as though we’re heading into cooler weather as we move into Wyoming. We may ever get to wear some of the other half of the clothes that haven’t yet made it out of our ports.
