Photography
national parks in the usa: bryce canyon
There are almost 60 National Parks in the USA and one of our travel goals would be to see each of them. We have barely touched the surface with what we have seen. It would be great if we could grow a “national parks series” in our blog to cover them all one day 🙂
One of the ones we have visited is Bryce Canyon National Park. And we absolutely loved what we saw and would go back to the area in a heartbeat!
Bryce Canyon, located in southwest of Utah and named after a Mormon pioneer, was listed as a national park in 1928. According to the National Park Service website, it is small in comparison to other national parks. Smaller or not, it is a sight that you will have to see for yourself to believe.
As we stand at the rim and look down… all we can see are these unusual, red rocky “spires”, known as hoodoos. There are thousands of them. We have never seen anything like it before. It literally made us “ooh” and “ahh” as we snap our photos.
The area is said to be filled with wildlife but much to our disappointment, we didn’t see any except maybe a bird that looked like a raven in flight.
From Sunset Point, there is a trail that winds down so we could walk amongst the rocks. Standing beside rocks this size, we felt so small and insignificant. It was rather daunting to walk down and then look back at the rim. It just seemed like we were in really deep.
The sun and colour of the rocks make for some serious glare, so be sure to have sunglasses with you. We were here in October but the weather was as perfect as any summer we could imagine.
Then to end the day, we were granted skies like this…. Ahhhh…. how can we simply NOTÂ love this place?
It is because places like this exist, we just realise how much we love nature and just want to keep seeing more!
Have you visited Bryce Canyon National Park?
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weekly photo challenge: achievement
We didn’t even need to think twice about what photo we would use for this challenge.
Our Camino passport says it all! Stamps showing that we walked approximately 800 km (500 miles) from St Jean Pied de Port in France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. It took us 6 weeks. We still can’t believe we achieved this 🙂
Happy Weekend to All!
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what’s your favourite beach? here’s ours (and it’s not bondi)
Summer is approaching in Sydney but when we look out the window, it doesn’t look the case at all! The sky is overcast and the temperature is still relatively cool. Considering that we live only 20 minutes or so from the beach, we hardly ever visit the beaches in Sydney. Maybe once or twice during the summer… And beautiful beaches we certainly have.
To put it plainly, we are just not beach people.
But if we were asked what our favourite beach was
…we would have to say that it isn’t here in Sydney. Back in 2006, we went to Mauritius for a week and found what we consider to this day: paradise. We think it is the best beach that we have ever been to.
Ile aux Cerfs is a privately owned island off the east coast of Mauritius. To get there, we were picked up from our hotel in Port Louis (on the west coast), driven across country to the port, before jumping on a boat transfer to the island.
And when we arrive, all we see is beautiful turquoise water and soft yellow sand, water so calm; this was our kind of beach.
We throw down our beach towel by the lagoon under some shade, and just head into the water! It doesn’t matter how far we go in this lagoon, the water is merely ankle deep and then slowly becomes knee deep. We can sit in the water and just soak up the sun and atmosphere. No fear of being slammed by waves or snuck up upon by sharks. Here is the place to be lazy and relax!
Our day trip also included lunch – all set up and served under these open huts!
And then to sticky beak around the island afterwards, we walked along some of the walking tracks and caught glimpses of the golf course.
This beach day for us definitely set the standard for our image of a “day at the beach” and since then nothing really has compared (possibly our day at the Bahamas, but that will be for another post). Writing this post takes us right back to that experience…. *sigh*
What is your favourite beach?Â
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weekly photo challenge: minimalist
Minimalist: relating to minimalism, providing a bare minimum of what is necessary
The “minimalist” is the pizza we were served in Rome is what we are submitting for this week’s photo challenge.
It looked bare compare to the pizzas we are use to which are laden with toppings.
Have you been served something that was not what you expected?
Happy Weekend, Everyone!!
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