This will be the last of my posts for a few weeks. We leave for Iceland on May 25 and return June 10. It's a self driving tour so our accommodations and car rental are taken care of. We just have to decide what stops we will make during each days journey to our next nights accommodation. We start with 3 nights in Reykjavik and have booked tours for each day. We are looking forward to this new adventure.
Now for the last of the pictures of our White Pocket excursion.
After we finished with the Canyon X tour we took a quick trip over to Glen Canyon Dam and then drove over to Kanab, UT. We had booked a full day excursion to see White Pocket which is located in the Vermillion Cliffs National Monument.
To get to White Pocket we booked a tour which involved a 2 1/2 hour drive from Kanab up through the pine forests to Jacobs Lake. Jacobs lake is the gateway to the north rim of the Grand Canyon and the road to the Grand Canyon was still closed due to snow.
From the elevations of Jacobs Lake we descended to a desert plateau for a long dusty and very rough ride to the White Pocket rock formation and our hike. I was glad I wasn't driving and that it wasn't my vehicle getting beat up on the roads.
White Pocket isn't a large area but the many colours in the rocks swirl through the hills making for a beautiful photo experience.
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| A pano of Glen Canyon Dam |
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| Our view from one of the few stops along the way that had facilities. |
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| You may recognize this shot as Apple used it as a screen saver for one of their OS platforms. |
The last of the Canyon X photos.
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| Do you see the branch stuck in the gap between the 2 pillars. That's the last high water mark. When it rains the canyon turns into a torrent of water which is how these canyons are formed. |
