Grand Canyon on a stormy day

This is mainly about weather I’ll talk more about Grand Canyon and size’s tomorrow 

We had a huge thunderstorm last night and masses of rain but when we woke up it seemed to have gone 

We took an hour to drive from Williams to Grand Canyon visitors centre

You can park your car there and use the free shuttle buses. We got on the red route (rhymes with sprout if you’re an American… so annoying)

Vince and I took many photos. The light was amazing and became very atmospheric as the black clouds welled up.

At the end of red route was hermits rest. We managed a couple of pics then ……..boom blackness everywhere hailstones and totally no views.

We dived in the gift shop and ordered 2 coffees. But were told “ rules say you can’t drink in the shop “ so we sheltered under the wooden eaves of the shop with lots of other damp people. It was unbelievable lightening and thunder.

Eventually the hail moved on and you could begin to slightly see parts of valleys and where the storm was overhead.

We got a few more pics and got back on the shuttle bus. The next two stops were amazing for photographers the rocks were wet and shiny and you could at last see right down to the river Colorado 2miles below. You can see from my photos how the weather deteriorates!

Eventually back to the carpark and visitor centre the storm was directly over head again. It was scary fork lightning and huge drops of icy rain and hail. And our car was parked right at the end of the parking lot. About 5 miles of scary driving brought us out of it and into dry blue skies with fluffy white clouds. There are flash flood warnings for all this area especially for 11pm but we will be safely in bed by thenwhether we can sleep is another story. Definitely monsoon weather….