Thursday - Canyonlands Natl Park

Yesterday evening we went for a nice drive on a back road along the Colorado River. This is a pretty important river all through the dry areas where it runs.

As often happens, the back roads we take aren't too busy...

Today we headed in to Canyonlands National Park. Where in the Arches park we were usually looking up at the sights, in Canyonlands the sights are mostly looking down at the canyons. The canyons mostly follow the Colorado and Green river routes, and often reach 2000 feet deep.

Here's the only wildlife we saw in the park today:

There are a few arches in this park too. This one is Mesa Arch, and a picture of that Arch showed up as a standard Windows screensaver image (a better photo than these of course):

Today it reached 34C for an hour or so in the afternoon. The climate here is strange, I guess it's normal desert stuff. Even in the low 20sC it can feel quite warm in the sun, and kinda chilly in the shade. At 34C it was still quite comfortable sitting outside in the shade, but the trailer heated up a lot, so the AC had to go on to keep the trailer somewhat cool. Only for a couple of hours though, by 6pm it was cooling off, and now at 7:45 is down to 25C. It will be good sleeping temps again tonight. 

Cath thinks this is worth mentioning: for the first time since I retired, I got a commercial haircut. Couldn't stand to have it as long as it was, in this heat. It's nice and short again now!