Day: September 19, 2017

These were all taken on Day 2 at the North Rim using the digital camera.

As I went in Park that morning there were bison on both sides of the road, just past the entrance.  This wasn’t all of them – there were more on each side!

It is amazing what gets dropped over the edge at various observation platforms.  Anyone lose a nice pair of Ray-Bans??  These were WAY down there….

These were all taken on Day 2 at the North Rim using the digital camera.

These were taken from the back of the observation room at the Lodge looking through each of the 3 big windows.  Talk about a room with a view!

This was taken from a conference room which overlooked the larger of the two outside observation decks.  I was absolutely STUNNED at how few people were at the North Rim the second day I went (a nice, sunny day as opposed to the overcast and rainy day the first time I went).

These were all taken on Day 1 at the South Rim using the digital camera.

And it appears that I inadvertently shot some of the bird pictures I was hoping to get (those not as tight of a shot as I would have liked).  Better to be lucky than good, sometimes.

These were all taken Day 1 at the South Rim using the digital camera.  I have lots more, plus photos from Day 2.  I will stagger those posts over the coming days.

The first day I was at the South Rim I overheard a tour group guide tell his flock that tourist helicopters are no longer allowed to fly over or down in the Canyon and that if we saw one it would be a Park Service helicopter.  Sure enough, later that day one went in, and a short time later came back out.  As it flew in I watched it as it flew down in the Canyon towards one of the closer formations until it became an insignificant speck.  This just reinforced the fact that the Canyon is HUGE.

More birds of a more conventional sort (sorry if these are duplicates of what I posted the other day):

And some folks having fun “way down upon on the Colorado River”:

And I’m not sure exactly what this was but I was sure glad it was on a nearby rock and not on me!