Oct 18 St. George, Utah Redlands RV park
This RV park is beautiful..Spanish architecture with red tiled roofs. Deep green shade trees. The roads are made from the red earth of the area. It sure makes for a colorful place!
Oct 19 St. George, Utah
It is just too pretty an area to leave! Another week here sounds about right. We kicked back and relaxed today. The view outside my window, as I write this, is red cliffs and buttes in the distance. The sun is warm, the breeze is cool, and I have a good book..calling to me.
Oct 20 Trip to Bryce Canyon National Park St. George, Utah
This day was just beyond belief. We drove through Zion and Red Canyon to get to Bryce Canyon National Park. Talk about sensory overload!
The scenery is incredible. And we saw Bison and probably 20 or 30 deer.
In order to get to Bryce from Zion we had to travel through a tunnel that is over a mile long. It is tiny and narrow and dark. But along the way there are little windows cut into the sides. And for a fleeting second, you can see breath taking beauty before the darkness closes in again. In the photo you can see one of those windows, just above the tree line.
One of the many deer we saw. They didn’t seem frightened of us at all.
On the way here we stopped at a ranch to photograph a couple of mares with their colts. And there above us on top of the cliff was a white horse..calling to the mares. The “stud” no doubt. What a sight!
Towers..called Hoodoos
Between 63 and 40 MILLION years ago, rivers and streams flowing from surrounding highlands deposited iron-rich, limy sediments into an ancient freshwater lake system. The sediments became the reddish-pink rocks that represent the Claron Formation from which the “hoodoos” (the towering rock formations) are carved. The light changed minute by minute as we watched, bouncing and reflecting off each rock with amazing colors.