Sunday, May 18, 2014

Day Five in Utah

Day Five in Utah was kind of an off day for us.  We had no specific plans, and everyone seemed to want to sleep in a little.  This was Thursday April 24th.  We checked out the rock shop in Kanab, before heading north up to Bryce Canyon National Park.  The park is a remarkable place and the natural scenery is spectacular, but it is a little too developed and too busy for my liking... and this was the off season.  We stopped at Sunset Point and eventually found a parking spot.  Then we wandered along the rim of the plateau for a while.  By this time everyone was getting hungry so we headed over to the nearby Bryce Canyon Lodge for lunch.  They had a nice restaurant there with some good food, at reasonable prices.  After lunch we headed over to the nearby Queen's Garden Trailhead.  It was a busy trail, with lots of tourists, and not what I would call a "natural" experience.  We wandered part way down the trail, took a few snapshots, and then headed back up.  I guess this sort of paints us with that "typical tourist" brush too...
Later in the afternoon we headed back towards Kanab.  We made a brief stop along the highway and I photographed an abandoned homestead north of Glendale.  My only image made all day with the big camera.  We stopped at a rock shop in Orderville on the way home, and then made it back to our house by evening.









  

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