Saturday - back roads around Moab

Nice red cliffs right from our campground

Today we went on much the same trip as yesterday, except in the reverse direction. 

 

A lot of the greenery is juniper, but a lot is a kind of scrub oak, much of it just loaded with large acorns:

 

This is a popular rafting area on the Colorado River

 

We did some mild off-roading today, going a few miles up an easy-rated trail. The trail was certainly easy, well-graded, crossing and re-crossing Onion Creek. It still would have been nice to have a "buddy vehicle" with us though - the trail may be easy, but could be a long walk back!

 

By late morning it was clouding up in the hills already, likely to rain there this afternoon. This was looking back the way we had come today: 

On the way back we dropped in to an auction of Navaho rugs. I guess a bit like quilting the rugs are very attractive and creative. Out of our price range though: