We went to the Grand Canyon a couple of weekends ago. It was surreal. It wasn't at all how I expected it. I expected this big hole in the ground that I'd have to hold onto Melchett to stop her getting too close to the edge. Something desolate and barren.
Perhaps there are certain stretches of the Canyon that are like that. I'd love to go back to different bits of it and see. But for now we met up with some of our family from the UK doing a US roadtrip and we did part of the South Rim. Here are some pics, that don't do it much more justice than any words could:
The size of it was mind-blowing.....but even though you could work out the other side was a ridiculously long way away, it felt like it could easily be a painted backdrop, and that we were just part of a Truman Show world.
We couldn't even see the bottom, that final drop, or drops, from the ledges at the centre of this photo down to the Colorado River.
And the amount of greenery in some places, trees and bushes desperately clinging onto the sides of the rock, but only a few miles away....
It looks like something I'd imagine on Mars, or in a Ray Bradbury novel about Mars. You can see the river here though, just, in the centre of the photo.
And yet with all this majesty, one thing fascinated the kids more than anything else....
SQUIIRRLLL!!!
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