Thursday, 10-3-24 Day 24

 

Thursday, 10-3-24  Day 24

Page Elks Lodge, Page AZ

Spotty internet at the Lodge (including 5G, which was weird since there were so many what looked to be cell towers all around us... maybe they were interfering with each other?) so we packed up our electronics and went to the wonderful Page Library 3 blocks away and spent a couple hours using their free internet to take care of some business.

This was a GREAT library. There were displays of dinosaurs that used to inhabit the area...







...as well as tons on non-book stuff to check out: high-end cameras, telescopes, yard games, specially shaped cake tins and decorating tools, small kitchen appliances like crepe and waffle makers, ice cream makers and I even saw someone using a laser cutter. A GREAT LIBRARY!

In fact, most all of Page, AZ was great.


Later, we took a tour of Antelope Canyon. It is a slot canyon located within the Navajo Nation Tribal Reservation.  

Since it is located on the tribal reservation visitors must go with a Navajo guide.  The other people in our tour group were late so only the 2 of us were with our guide Josh.   


We took about a 10-minute van ride through the sand dunes to the canyon entrance






Josh asked if it would be ok to use our cameras and took lots of fabulous pictures of the beautiful slot canyon and the amazing red sandstone canyon walls with the intricate shapes and various colors.


                         










A bear. Part of our guide company's logo







George Washington





Earth Angels

The colors (pink, coral, red, and lavender) and sculpting from wind and water create amazing canyon walls - natures works of art!  Being in the canyon feels very special - if no one else is nearby it is very quiet, and most of the time some sky is still visible.  Some of the spaces at the floor of the canyon are quite narrow but others are wider creating a type of room. It easy to think of the Navajo people living in this area and using the canyon. 

 


Later in the afternoon we went to the Glen Canyon Dam Overlook to watch the sunset.  It was very peaceful, just a few people watching boats and jet skis far below on the Colorado River travel up the canyon toward the dam. 


















The ground here looked like sculpted sand but it was rock hard





We were hoping to see a release of water but that did not happen.  

After sunset we drove just a few minutes to the dam and bridge and walked across the span to the other side.   Thousands of vehicles must pass over this bridge every day. But, on foot, it felt scary high above the river especially when looking over the edge!  

                                                

                                                      

                                        





The Bureau of Water Reclamation has a facility at one end of the dam and had a foot print cast with this info above.

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