Just Do It

We wake up this morning to a very wet camp, it poured down last night, probably very fortunately that it did, otherwise I think we would have frozen up here.  A short drive brings us to Sunset Point in Bryce Canyon.  This place is unreal – we thought there were heaps of circys yesterday, but man, here there are hundreds of them with variations in colour from red to orange to a sandy colour.  There is a hiking trail where you can walk to the bottom of the canyon, it is very steep and just starting to rain when we start off on this.  Andy and I get to about halfway when it starts to pour and we take shelter in a small overhang.  The boys aren’t so worried and are already at the bottom, they eventually make it back to the top very drenched and very orange from the mud!  We clean up and then head round to Bryce Point and the vista overlooking the whole ampitheatre – what an amazing sight – a whole valley full of circys.  We were very luck here with the view as just as we were leaving the clouds came in and obscured most of it.

Zion National Park is our next stop and it is raining heavily, - great we figure, wonderful weather for a national park.  The ranger on duty at the guard house assures us that Zion is even more exciting in the rain as the rock formations are non-porous and the rain creates hundreds of mini waterfalls that aren’t normally there.  Well this woman was right, the park was breathtaking with autumn colours in full bloom and amazing rock formations everywhere.  We went through one of the mountains in a tunnel that was 1.4miles long.  The tunnel was built when vehicles where a heck of a lot smaller than today and as a result it is pretty much one-way traffic now to cope with all the RVs and buses going through.  We were so very pleased that we didn’t skip Zion and we have pushed it way the list of favoured national parks and certainly one of the must dos for spectacular scenery.