We got to Dead Horse Point first and it was so impressive. It was like looking at the Grand Canyon. You can see the River Colorado doing horse bends and the Green River has just joined it . It is soooo far down to look and then goes down further. The rock forms are amazing
If you love horses don’t read this next bit…(Lily and Anona).. It’s called Dead Horse Point because Cowboys herded up loads of wild horses onto this headland as it made a natural corral, the sides all round drop 2000 feet! They selected the best horses to keep and sell but didn’t let the other horses free and left them to die of thirst looking down on the huge Colorado river which they couldn’t reach.
Next we went further along the road to Canyonlands. This is a huge area of plateau covering 114 square miles with huge canyons down deep inside it. The 2 rivers, the Green River and the Colorado have eroded it over millions of years. You can only visit 3 main areas by tarmaced roads. The rest is by very scary dirt tracks which need 4 wheel drive cars and we could see several cars doing this half way down before the deep fall to the river. I don’t know how they dare to do this!
So just when we thought we had seen the most wonderful sights ever we have found more today.
Tomorrow we travel to Panguitch which is a good place for visiting Bryce Canyon, Zion NP in Utah and other places, so we have booked in there for 5 nights. More travel news soon ☀️☀️😎😎👀👀😜😜
Love to you all will be skyping you Saturday after 3pm your time as we get up xxx if we don’t manage this we’ll try on Sunday at same time onwards xxx