Thursday 7 July - did little other than sit in the garden and read all day - so to make up for it I'll tell you a little more about Bryce Canyon from yesterday, now that I've managed to publish a small selection of our photos.
As you'll see from the pictures Bryce is an amazing sight, a huge amphitheatre of natural stone structures about 8-9000 feet above sea level. To give you a sense of scale the rim walk above the escarpment is about three miles and the Hoodoos (the vertical stacks) are hundreds of feet high (those are full size pine trees in the pictures).
The red, pink and orange colours (and yes they really were that vibrant) come from iron, purple from manganese and the white is pure limestone. The hoodoos are created by freezing temperatures (more than 200 days per year below freezing) and water and wind erosion.
Creation at it's most beautiful...