Black Canyon Rocks ---Lot's of them.

So we ate in a restaurant that had a family half and a sport bar half so we ate in the sports bar half but they couldn't find a channel with the Chelsea game on so had to make do with facebook updates -- shame about the result but it would appear to have been a good pre-season-- Roma Saturday in NYC, and then Hull FC--need to check where Lynda and I will be.

So back to yesterday, and with not holding our hopes out too much for anything spectacular our visit to Black Canyon turned out to be a real diamond.

I will put a whole bunch onto the full profile later.

The high point on the top is around 9000 feet elevation-- here is from the top.

 

 

The river here is more powerful than the Mississippi due to the amount in height that it falls-- see below---

Just so its not all boring stuff about nature and that here is my favourite interlude---

Talking of wild life, when we were about to pull in to the main visitors centre we stopped to see about 5 metres in front of us a mother Bobcat and her 4 or 5 cubs crossing the road--- there is no joke with this--they were trying to get to the other side.

Have you ever been in one of those situations where 4 people are all fumbling to get out their cameras and just when one is ready , the animals have disappeared--just like the kitkat advert with the Panda's on UK TV--- well that was us lot.

So just to prove there is no exaggeration on my part , here is a piccie of a male Bobcat that was walking along the road on our way down-- 3M away and not a care in the world and also a deer which we saw a little further on--maybe he ended up as dinner.

 You need to look carefully at this one as the bobcat does blend in well with the back ground.

On the way down , we saw a house for sale so we have bought this together and are all selling up when we get back to move out here.

So after that decision we thought it best to get some retail therapy so a visit to CJ Penney was necessary in the afternoon.

This did give us a bit of an opportunity to get back and lay by the pool for an hour or two.

So from an uncertain start we ended having had a great day and now need to get our act together to get on the road from Montrose, CO, across another part of the Rockies to Pike Peak where we stay tonight---- the sun is shining so please let it stay so. Happy trails.