Sue and I decided to head up the mountains on Saturday and check out the sites and sounds. We were not disappointed at all.
We started our day by heading up into Cedar Canyon. This would take us past Navajo Lake...a deep water pristine mountain lake at about 9700 feet above sea level. The overlook was spectacular.
Duck Creek village is just a short drive past Navajo Lake. Duck Creek is a great little getaway spot that has a really cool 1/4 mile long village of stores and some eateries along with a bunch of cabins. It just so happened that they had their annual Duck Creek Village Days going on. They had this huge little festival in a meadow filled with all kinds of vendors and food stalls. Sue and stopped and visited this for about an hour. The buffalo and Elk burgers were great.
Soon after we stopped at the village we headed up the road a few miles to visit Mammoth Caves. These caves are off the beaten path about 10 miles. These caves were actually in the ground. We didn't see any, but it says that these caves are filled with a lot of bats, about three species. While we didn't see the bats we did see a nice Mule deer doe on the way to the caves.
We then decided to ride over to Bryce Canyon to check out a special hike with more caves just outside of the park. The trail was called the Mossy Cave trail and it is located about 3 miles past the turnoff for the park. This was a great hike. We were rewarded with a great hike that not only included the cave, but had a great mountain stream running through it with a 30 foot waterfall. All of htis was surrounded by some great rock hoo doos.
After checking out the little tourist village just outside of the canyon we had a nice little dinner at Ruby's Inn and then headed home. Quite the long but fun day. Our thrills weren't quite over just yet. We decided to go through the East side of Zion on the way home, which we've never done before. Just before we entered the tunnel we saw a car stopped in the middle of the road just ahead of us. A large Bighron Sheep was in the road...WOW...how cool was that. He even walked right next to the car on the opposite shoulder of the road. A perfect ending to a wonderful day.
The best part of the day though was that I got a chance to spend the day with the love of my life...my sweetheart, Doesn't get much better than that.
Our travels and adventures continue......
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| Navajo Lake |
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| Doe Mule Deer...check out them ears! |
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| An entrance to one of the caves at Mammoth Cave |
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| Yours truly |
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| Sue was very brave |
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| Is this girl cute or what! |
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| Mossy Cave trailhead |
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| Sue in Mossy Cave. This thing has icicles in it through June |
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| This rock formation looks like a cool animal scuplture to me |
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| This waterfall was at least 30 ft high |
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| Western Village at Bryce |
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| Desert Bighorn Sheep in Zion National Park |
3 comments:
how beautiful. you guys are so lucky to live there and lucky you both enjoy exploring it!
You two never cease to amaze me exploring and beauty of the canyons and spoting a Bighorn sheep!
Ray - You took some good pictures! I think we really do take the beauty of this area for granted...
At the end when we were in Bryce NP by the Mossy Cave & Waterfall huge dark clouds rolled in & kind of freaked me out. A few days later a man from Germany was hit & killed by a lightning strike in Bryce NP!
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