Now that we're out of the desert, it's starting to feel like Fall all of a sudden. I know, it's practically the end of September, but it still took me by surprise, a little.
We found a nice campsite with plenty of sun for our solar panels. Downside: no internet. Upside: TV reception with lots of sports channels. We'd already decided that tomorrow would be a relaxing lazy day...Nils is looking forward to watching some professional football for the first time this season. There was a family of deer grazing in our campsite when we arrived, two does and three little ones. They came through again in the evening and one of them ventured within a few feet of where we were sitting, just checking us out. There are lots of grey cottontail rabbits hopping around too. Allegedly there are bears and mountain lions in the park. No sign of them, though.
The Black Canyon really IS black, a combo of the dark grey granite walls and the fact that it's one of the steepest, narrowest (and darkest/most shadow-y) canyons in the whole US adds to the darkness. We went for a short rim walk late in the afternoon to check it out....wow, there are TREES here! Oaks, 12 feet tall! By Deerfield standards, this is admittedly puny, but compared to desert flora, they're impressively enormous. Here are some pictures at different points from behind the Visitor's Center
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| This is as far as we wanted to back up...sheer drop=off behind us |
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| It looks pretty dark and dismal in this photo---see the whitewater at the bottom? You could HEAR the water all the way up 2500 feet, too. |
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