September 12, 2013

• Epic Road Trip, Day 8, part 4

  The photo ops in the Fiery Furnace were never-ending. I worried about my camera batteries dying as I aimed here and there and back the way we’d been and shot off dozens of photos. Thankfully they lasted just fine and I was able to get every shot I wanted, although not every shot turned out perfectly. It’s sometimes hard to grasp the scope of the sights.

  But I did my best!

  

  

  

  There was a lot of lush greens in the dry red rocks which was such a pretty contrast.

  

  Our guide had been talking of geology and then said at the next stop she’d be talking about biology. So we get to the next stop and there is a large pothole with two dead squirrels, and on the rock nearby was a dead bat. Um…not the kind of biology she was thinking about to talk about, but she had a good sense of humor about the apparently “murder-suicide” of the squirrels.

  

  

  

  We arrived at another stop and she had us look at the arches here upside down–she said they are called the Skull and once you see them that way it’s hard to imagine them as anything else.

  …then upside down…

  Occasionally, we’d walk along the rock walls and knock on them. There were often large pockets of hollowness with just a crust of rock over them. So you could hear the deep “thrump” instead of the usual “thunk” when you knocked on walls or sometimes floor. Our knuckles got kinda sore from knocking since most of it is solid. But it was sure fun to find a pocket! So much so I had to take a picture of it.

  

  

  

  

  

  The discoloration on the rock reminded us of a clock.

  

  This is one of the places we had to jump from one rock to the other.

  

  

  

  Isn’t this a beautiful place? There’s more photos for another post.

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