I'm starting to sound like a broken record. Every time we leave an area I'll say, "there's no way we're going to see anything to top that!", only to be proven wrong at the very next stop.
It's also amazing how different these parks in southern Utah are from each other. Not only are they not just alike, they're not even similar.
Actually, before even reaching the park we were told about a trail that led to a small waterfall.
The water was freezing, but Hannah and Kendall didn't seem to mind.
Yesterday we hiked around the rim of the amphitheater, and it was amazing. We took dozens and dozens of photos. I was disappointed last night when I downloaded all the photos on our PC and looked at them.
I should have mentioned this before, because by now you have already figured out that our family is camera-challenged. If they hadn't invented the green button on quick-cams, we wouldn't have any usable pictures at all.
The unique thing about Bryce is the hoodoos. There's no way to describe these, and 2D photography is woefully inadequate. Short of seeing it live, you might be able to get a feel of it viewing it through some type of stereoscopic slide viewer.
My friend Dave mentioned that landscape photography works best when the angle of the sun is sharpest (in other words, sunrise and sunset).
I noticed a hiking trail that went down into the amphitheater and wound in around the hoodoos.
I knew that there was no chance of getting the kids to do it in the afternoon heat, so we rose early this morning and drove back into the park to do that hike.
All smiles going down...
Check out this tree grown around another tree...
We even saw a leprechaun while we were down there...
Where are all the smiles on the way back up?
I noticed that the photos we took early this morning did a much better job of conveying the texture of the rock formations.
Still woefully inadequate. The good news is that our photography comes with a full money-back guarantee.
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