SUNDAY 26TH - ZION NATIONAL PARK

The true holiday begins. We feel as if we have been working very hard navigating freeways and traffic in very hot conditions since we collected the motorhome on Friday but we are now in a much more familiar environment – a national park, a shaded environment with a cool breeze. We are at the Watchman Campground in the Zion National Park within an easy walk from the Park Centre from where a shuttle bus gives access to everything there is to see.

 

The fact that there is a shuttle bus system tells you that there are lots of people which there are but it is Sunday afternoon and it isn't uncomfortably crowded. Perhaps there will be fewer tomorrow.

The National Park encompasses the Virgin River Gorge which, over thousands of years has carved a gorge approximately 4000 feet deep into the sandstone plateau above, making for spectacular cliffs on both sides of the gorge.

 

We took the shuttle bus to the end of the line this afternoon where we did the Riverside Walk as far as the constructed walk goes. You can keep walking up the gorge as it narrows by wading in the river but why would you?

 

Tomorrow we will have a full day of exploring before heading for Bryce Canyon on Tuesday.

 

Have you met our resident puppy. Every time we return to the van, he is faithfully waiting at the door for us I have given him a name – Frent.