The only food provided on board the six and a half hour cruise were granola bars and apples, with coffee and lemonade. If you want real food, there was a sunset cruise which included dinner. But then you won't be able to see the Rainbow Bridge. And I would opt for the monument rather than the food in Arizona - any time.
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| Early morning at the marina |
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| The same landscape from the water |
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| Layered bluffs all along Lake Powell |
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Lots of mesas and buttes around the lake |
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| It seems that everywhere you look you see camel heads |
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Entrance into the canyon leading to the Rainbow Bridge - you wouldn't think the boat could get through the many narrow channels - but it did |
You can see in these two pictures (above and below) what a difference the light can make to the same landscape - the top is an approach to the channel (obviously the wrong angle light-wise) while the photo below is looking back from the other side
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| The boat let us of on the pier and we hiked along this massive canyon face to get to the Rainbow Bridge Monument |
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First glimpse of the monument with Navajo Mountain in the background |
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| The perfect arch - Rainbow Bridge, considered sacred by the tribes in the area |
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| Not much snow melt this year - river bed is dry |
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| One of many houseboats on Lake Powell docked here at the Rainbow Bridge pier |
The way back to the Marina was just as spectacular as we were then seeing the landscape in a different light and from a different angle
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| The ever present coal power generating station has become a monument in its own way |
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The dam that created Lake Powell and turned it into a beautiful pleasure playground |
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