Grand Canyon

Today was the first day of our trip home to Minnesota and on the way we did a tour of the Grand Canyon National Park.  We stopped at several overlooks and checked out the canyon.  It sure is a bad case of erosion.  We took the following pictures as we went from place to place.  Hope you enjoy them.

 

I am not going to comment on most of these pictures.  Just enjoy the scenery.  I will comment on a couple along the way.

 

 

 

 

 

Have to comment on this very nice picture of Pat with the canyon in the background.

 

 

 

You can see a hiking trail at the bottom of the canyon in the center of the picture.  Don't think I could make it down there.

 

 

That line down at the bottom of the canyon that looks a little like a trail is actually a dried up creek bed that dumps into the river when there is any rain or melting snow to fill it.

 

 

 

Not sure why I had such an expression, I think it was because the sun was in my eyes.

 

 

 

As we pulled into the last overlook we stopped at, we saw this bird watching the people that were around.  Not sure if it was a Raven or a very large Crow.

 

 

This was a zoomed in view of the Colorado river at the bottom of the canyon.  The next picture was taken in the wide angle view, but you can still see the river some.

 

 

 

This was just another zoomed in view of the previous picture.

 

 

That's Pat in the lower right corner of the picture.

 

 

There were some pretty sights and amazement at the size of the Grand Canyon.  I asked a Park Ranger there where all that dirt went and he said it formed the Delta at the end of the river which is in Mexico south of Yuma Arizona.

 

Tomorrow we hope to end up in Rifle Wyoming after stopping by the 4 corners monument.  So far the weather is okay, but may not be so good in South Dakota when we get there on Tuesday.

 

Patrick