Day 4 - Grand Junction to Moab

19 May 2004

Highlights:

  • Colorado Gorge
  • Arches National Park

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    Leaving Colorado - I70 (Colorado, USA)Leaving Colorado
    I70 (Colorado, USA)

    Welcome to Utah - I70 (Utah, USA)Welcome to Utah
    I70 (Utah, USA)

    Amtrak train - I70 (Utah, USA)Amtrak train
    I70 (Utah, USA)

    Not easy to frame things well when you're speeding down the freeway

    Sky and vapour trails - I70 (Utah, USA)Sky and vapour trails
    I70 (Utah, USA)

    No matter where you go in America, you're never far from a flight path. Sometimes several intersect and at any time there can be half a dozen vapour trails in the sky

    Colorado River - Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)Colorado River
    Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)

    Colorado River - Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)Colorado River
    Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)

    Colorado Gorge - Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)Colorado Gorge
    Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)

    Colorado Gorge - Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)Colorado Gorge
    Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)

    Fisher Towers over Colorado River - Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)Fisher Towers over Colorado River
    Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)

    Fisher Towers over Colorado River - Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)Fisher Towers over Colorado River
    Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)

    One of my favourite photos of the trip. The colours in the landscape are amazing

    Rock mesa - Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)Rock mesa
    Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)

    Fisher Towers - Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)Fisher Towers
    Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)

    Mesas and buttes - Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)Mesas and buttes
    Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)

    A mini-monument valley

    Buttes - Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)Buttes
    Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)

    Fisher Towers - Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)Fisher Towers
    Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)

    The parents admiring the towers - Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)The parents admiring the towers
    Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)

    Red rock - Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)Red rock
    Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)

    This looks exactly like the Thunder Mountain ride at Disneyland

    View back to Hittle Bottom from Fisher Towers - Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)View back to Hittle Bottom from Fisher Towers
    Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)

    Fisher Towers - Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)Fisher Towers
    Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)

    Mesas and mountains from the car - Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)Mesas and mountains from the car
    Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)

    Buttes - Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)Buttes
    Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)

    Castle Valley Road - Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)Castle Valley Road
    Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)

    Desert wildflowers - Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)Desert wildflowers
    Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)

    Buttes - Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)Buttes
    Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)

    Spire - Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)Spire
    Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)

    Desert wildflowers - Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)Desert wildflowers
    Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)

    Colorado Gorge - Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)Colorado Gorge
    Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)

    Kids rafting on the Colorado River - Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)Kids rafting on the Colorado River
    Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)

    Kids rafting on the Colorado River - Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)Kids rafting on the Colorado River
    Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)

    This would have been so much fun

    Kids rafting on the Colorado River - Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)Kids rafting on the Colorado River
    Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)

    Lizard - Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)Lizard
    Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)

    Colorado Gorge - Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)Colorado Gorge
    Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)

    Cliff face - Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)Cliff face
    Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)

    Cliff face - Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)Cliff face
    Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)

    Cliff face - Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)Cliff face
    Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)

    Colorado Gorge - Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)Colorado Gorge
    Colorado Gorge (Utah, USA)

    Arches National Park - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)Arches National Park
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

    Park Avenue - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)Park Avenue
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

    Another day where we very sadly didn't get good weather. These rocks should be a brilliant red and the sky bright blue.

    Park Avenue - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)Park Avenue
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

    Park Avenue - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)Park Avenue
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

    Three Gossips - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)Three Gossips
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

    La Sal mountains from Arches National Park - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)La Sal mountains from Arches National Park
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

    Three Gossips,  Tower of Babel, The Organ - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)Three Gossips, Tower of Babel, The Organ
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

    Three Gossips - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)Three Gossips
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

    Hula hoop sign - really! - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)Hula hoop sign - really!
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

    This could probably go on Rove Live's What The- section!

    Desert wildflowers - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)Desert wildflowers
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

    Everywhere we went, desert wildflowers were out in bloom. Made for some great flower shots

    Balanced Rock - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)Balanced Rock
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

    We came back here the next day with better light

    Garden of Eden - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)Garden of Eden
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

    Garden of Eden - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)Garden of Eden
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

    Skyline of rocks - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)Skyline of rocks
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

    From the car. It looks rude for some reason

    Desert wildflowers - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)Desert wildflowers
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

    Double Arch - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)Double Arch
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

    North Window - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)North Window
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

    Double Arch among the rest of the rocks - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)Double Arch among the rest of the rocks
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

    North Window - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)North Window
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

    Turret Arch - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)Turret Arch
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

    South Window - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)South Window
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

    Turret Arch - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)Turret Arch
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

    North and South Windows - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)North and South Windows
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

    Desert wildflowers - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)Desert wildflowers
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

    Double Arch - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)Double Arch
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

    Desert wildflowers - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)Desert wildflowers
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

    Desert wildflowers - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)Desert wildflowers
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

    Double Arch - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)Double Arch
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

    Dad climbing Double Arch for a photo - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)Dad climbing Double Arch for a photo
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

    Zooming in on Dad, half way up the rocks

    Dad climbing Double Arch for a photo - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)Dad climbing Double Arch for a photo
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

    Closer..

    Dad photographing Double Arch - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)Dad photographing Double Arch
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

    Closer..

    Double Arch - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)Double Arch
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

    View from Double Arch - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)View from Double Arch
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

    Underside of Double Arch - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)Underside of Double Arch
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

    They filmed Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade right here!

    Far side of Double Arch - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)Far side of Double Arch
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

    Underside of Double Arch - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)Underside of Double Arch
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

    Desert wildflowers - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)Desert wildflowers
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

    Desert wildflowers with rocks in the background - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)Desert wildflowers with rocks in the background
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

    Fiery Furnace - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)Fiery Furnace
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

    Fiery Furnace - Arches National Park (Utah, USA)Fiery Furnace
    Arches National Park (Utah, USA)

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