Presenting The Grand Canyon

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Sarah gets the good seat in the helicopter – co-pilot!

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The colors really pop when the sun shines down on the canyon.   Unfortunately it was pretty much overcast the whole day for us so we only got glimpses of the sun on the canyon.

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The thing that takes your breath away is the size of the Grand Canyon.  Its huge!   The Colorado river has been very very busy for millions of years.   The statistic we got was that the river would dig out 6 inches every 100 years.  Considering how deep the canyon is its been working a loooonnng time.

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One of the fascinating things i observed was there were people that were having ‘zen-like’ moments.  Just staring off into the gorge with that distant look.   This is one of my favorites of the day.

It’s hard to see in this little picture but we scored a rainbow over the canyon!

Sarah up front!

I can see for miles!   In this one you can see the rain coming down off in the distance.  We got rained on a little at the beginning of the day while we were on the east side of the park (we came in from the east entrance) but other than that we stayed pretty dry.    The Canyon is so large that it was a lot of miles to drive between the set up look out locations.

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On this one i was trying to get a picture of that guy but Sarah decided to make the picture ‘all about her’

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Sarah has her zen moment.  Oddly enough the guy hasn’t moved an inch.  Now that i think back it might have been a cardboard cutout of a guy in case you need a person in the shot.

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Sarah contemplates the edge

 

So thats a look a the canyon!

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  One Response to “Day 4 – A look at the Canyon”

  1. The helicopter pics looked good. Nephew Andy is doing field exploration in AZ strip N. of Grand Canyon.

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