Friday, May 28, 2010

Peach Springs & Page AZ

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Day 11 - First day out of Sedona, stopped on Route 66 at Williams and had a coffee.





Then visited the train station (where the train trips to the Grand Canyon start) and said hello to the caboose.





Had dinner in Peach Springs and were entertained in the lobby by a Navaho hoop dancer and friends.





Day 12 - Off for a torturous jeep ride over a bumpy dirt road through the Havasupai Indian Reservation to the bottom of the Grand Canyon near the western rim.




Where Beth took a swim in the Colorado River.




Bev got her feet wet. This shot is looking upstream towards the eastern end of the Grand Canyon.




Bev took this photo of Beth posing as a mermaid on a rock. This photo is looking towards the western end of the Grand Canyon.




The beach where the jeeps parked and we had lunch.




Day 13 - Visited the Grand Canyon Caverns after spending the night at the Grand Canyon Caverns Inn ( a quaintly old fashioned American motel).




Bev poses with Gertie, a reconstruction of a giant sloth whose bones were discovered in the caverns.




Took this photo of the Grand Canyon when we went through the Desert View section of the park on the way to Page.




Day 14 - In Page we came across Blair's Trading Post.




This is Wahweap Marina at Lake Powell.




Crossed the border into Utah for a photo of Lone Rock in Lake Powell.




Here we are at the lookout over Glen Canyon dam which created Lake Powell.




This is looking down the Glen Canyon Gorge below the day.




We met a lovely couple, Greg and Kristin, modern day American gypsies living out of their motor home, on the boat trip to see the Rainbow Bridge.




Here we are at the stern getting wet from the spray sent up not only by the wake but also by the strong winds we were having.




Our first sight of the Rainbow Bridge. We're walking along a pontoon pathway laid down from the dock.




A closer view of Rainbow Bridge. This was a close as we walked because we were too puffed to climb any further.




Greg emailed us this photo he took from much closer.




Here's Bev trudging back down the trail to the boat. You can see the end of the pontoon walkway at the bend in the river.




The boat had to squeeze through twisty narrow openings to get to the bridge from the lake proper.




Here we are almost back to the marina. The wind got up and it was rough.



That's all for now folks. Next installment will be all desert.