Well we were off by 8am....a record. Last night there was a huge storm..thunder..lightening and today is very bleak...so glad our boat trip was yesterday! We reached Bryce Canyon about 11am and drove to the very top...17 miles up and once there you were 9,000 feet above sea level! ...it was just spectacular....so many different shapes and colours...mostly red....Fred found it very hard to breathe....I did to some extent! On the way back down there were numerous s...

We started our day by driving to the adventure centre in Page. They took us on a bus down to the Glen Canyon Dam....the only way you get to the dam is through a 2 mile tunnel in the canyon wall from the top of the canyon to the water level. it was built purposely in 1956 to allow trucks to take turbines to the dam....before 7/11 it was open to the public but now is only used for Colorado Adventure centre tours and workers on the Glen Canyon dam....very impressive...

Well what a drive! Arizona is so hot and dry and nothing but rocks to see....how people can live here I don't know....houses in middle of desert...no trees, no flowers, just red or grey rocks and dirt! And the poor sheep, horses and cows have to live off this barren land! How lucky are Aussie animals! The main road to Page had a landslide in February and was still closed so we had to go the long way....we stopped to see the Little Colorado river gorge which was s...