Jun 08, 2015

After breakfast we headed off to explore the Arches National Park and were we in for a treat! I'll let the pictures tell the story and there were many even with only one camera. There were spectacular features, to see, soaring cliffs and canyons and needles of rock and everything in between. Way too much to see properly in one day but we gave it a good shake even walking, actually scrap that, climbing nerly 3 miles to get to the Delicate Arch. If I hadn't been so stubbor I would have chucked it in but Christine Ikin there is a shot below for you. After a quick bite of lunch we decided to head to Canyonlands National Park thinking it would be ordinary compared to the Arches and how wrong we were. The Arches had spectacular sights and generally closer to us where the vista up on the Island in the Sky section of the park we explored were incredible,  deep and vast and just as spetacular in different ways. Our reccomendation to anyone is that you need several days to explore these properly and if you're an adrenalin junkie and like Zip lines, canyoning, parachuting, white water rafting or just plain old fashioned hiking then a week minimum  and ther would still be more to see and pick your time. We were glad we did our climb in the early parwt of the day before it was too hot.

Firstly Arches national park.



Park Avenue.



A view to Courthouse Rock from Park Avenue.



Balanced Rock.



One of many arches of all shapes and sizes.



Delicate Arch, especially for you Christine Ikin.



And another to give context with people under the arch and snow capped mountains in the distance.



Norm almost back down from Delicate Arch advertising Inline 4 Cafe.



And a view of one of many great sights on the way to the Devils garden

And now Canyonland (Island in the Sky section).



Big Mesa.



Overlook view from Island in the Sky Visitor Centre . The snow capped mountains in the distance are 152 miles away.



View from Green River Overlook.



Orange Cliffs.



And a shot from Grand Viewpoint.



Shaffer Trail.



And a canyon near the outskirts of Moab called Negro Bills Canyon (seriously I'm not making it up).

Bits and Bobs:



More coffee wisdom above and below.

And some more trucks being transported through Moab (above and below). These are Freightliners so how they do it, and the others we showed a few days ago were Kenworths and they do it differently.