Honeymoon Day 9 - Grand Canyon, AZ to Bryce Canyon, UT (19 November, 2005)

^ Lower Antelope Canyon ^

The first order of business (after dragging our VERY sore butts out of bed) was postcards. Following that, we headed to Page, Arizona where we found Lower Antelope Canyon. This place is a 1/4 mile long stretch of sandstone canyon that has been smoothed out over the centuries by flood after flood...the most recent of which happened in 1999 when several tourists were killed while taking photographs. They have metal staircases and platforms throughout much of the canyon, but while they seem out of place, they don't seem to be in the way of your pictures.

This place is an absolute wonder. We spent over 2 1/2 hours there taking picture after picture and hoping they'd come out even close to the real thing. Everywhere you turned, the light was reacting differently to the stone and producing ever more amazing colors.

Lower Antelope Canyon is very definitely one of the most sensational places we went to on our trip, and we'd recommend it to everyone who comes within 100 miles of Page.

The trip up to Bryce was completely uneventful except for the grocery store we visited...they had signs over the aisles for Cola, Root Beer and Shasta - and they also had Ketsup (not Catsup or Ketchup) as well as Chilie Beans. Very unusual, but they were friendly enough so we waited until we were out of earshot before we made comments.

We made the turn off of US 89 to Utah hwy 12 to head to Bryce Canyon late in the afternoon, but there was still enough light in the sky to get a few interesting pictures on the way in.