“Paging” the Glen Canyon National Recreational Area
This begins the 2nd full day here in Page, AZ and surrounding area. What a place! I have certainly seen many images of the area, but none do it justice. In the coming days, I will contribute my own injustices. If I had a preference, I would have hoped that Linda H (a member of the community and geologist) was here. The place is a geologist’s dream. Murel, a Bureau of Land Mgmt ranger stationed at the BLM office in Big Water, UT) was bragging that within stone’s throw of the office, nearly a thousand dinosaur skeletons had been found, 100 in the last year. He noted two in particular: One, a complete head of a gryposaur, a duck billed dinosaur. (Click here for a artist rendition of what they might have looked like.) I know it’s kind of cheesy, but I shot this picure with my iPhone so I could immediately send a copy to Aidan and Callum.
And the other bragging rite was that his Tyrannosaurus rex was a few ten’s of millions of years older than Jack Horner’s. You 3M’ers in the crowd might recall that I invited Jack to speak several years back, much to the delight and amazement of 1000 geeky scientists and engineers.
I’m off to shoot a sunrise shot along Lake Powell and then off to Upper Antelope Canyon!! And then a 4am pickup on Tuesday by Charlie Moore, a local Navajo photographer, guide, and otherwise good guy for an all-day shoot of South Coyote Buttes. (Mark, I think that idea of renting a houseboat on Lake Powell would have been a far more relaxing vacation.)
More later. Take care, Rick