Antelope Canyon & Lake Powell, Page Arizona May 17 - 21, 2015

We took 5 days to visit several of the beautiful attractions in the Page area.  First was Vermilion Cliffs, Echo Cliffs and Lee's Ferry off Highway 89 South of Page.  Then Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell Marina where we took a tour boat ride on Lake Powell to Rainbow Bridge.  Next day we toured both the Upper and Lower Antelope Canyons and got some of those beautiful sunbeam post card photographs.  Then we took a plane ride over Rainbow Bridge and across the northern part of Arizona to see Monument Valley. Last day, we hiked to Horseshoe Bend just south of Page.

On our tour to Rainbow Bridge, we saw this houseboat which is like the one we rented back in 2000 with our family and my cousin Joe and his family from Indiana.


Proof that I was on the tour boat:

Our tour boat driver assured us that the boat would fit through this narrow gap.  I was concerned, but
she was right!  However, she did have to drive very slowly and honk her horn to be sure no one was coming from the other direction.

Rainbow Bridge.  390 feet tall and 378 feet wide!  Formed when a horse shoe bend in the river got so much water and wind erosion that it finally connected through which stopped the erosion to the sides because the river then flowed through the center of the arch.

Tina was here too!

Horseshoe Bend was beautiful in the early morning!

Tina's phone will do these wonderful panorama shots.  Horseshoe Bend at 7AM
It is WAY down there to the Colorado River.  Can you see the camping party of river rafters on the inside of the river bend at the lowest part of the big rock the river goes around in the photo.  Look for their blue tarps right at the edge of the river.

 Tina gives the wonderful view some scale.

The trucks and our driver "JR" that took us through Upper Antelope Canyon:

John at the entrance to Upper Antelope Canyon.  The trucks took us on an exciting open air 3 mile ride down the dry river bed and dropped us right at this entrance.

The colors and lighting inside both canyons were unbelievably beautiful.  The water flow during rainy season is really strong and carves out these fantastic shapes.

Our tour of Lower Antelope Canyon was with Ken's Tours:

Lots of stairs to get down into Lower Antelope Canyon

More stairs, this just like at home when Tina and I walk our stairs at the parking garage...Only scarier!

 

This big crack in the earth is where the last ladder takes us up and out of Lower Antelope Canyon.

Note the person barely visible coming up out of the crack on the last step of the ladder.

Our trusty Red 2004 Corvette is not the fastest car on the road when I am driving, but we sure enjoyed how smoothly it rode and how big its trunk is!!