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Another day, another canyon.  It’s all just a load of rocks really but what else is there to do but take photos of rock formations in the west now that it’s no longer wild?

We’ve seen canyons from the air, on foot, from the back of a mule but today we’re seeing them from the inside and from the water.

The Upper Antelope Slot Canyon can only be reached with a tour as this most amazing geological feature is on Navajo nation land and hard to get to.

Upper Antelope Slot Canyon

We joined Chief Tsosie’s tour for an hour and a half of photographic fun inside the slot canyon.  You could easily have lost yourself for hours. 

This narrow slot reaches into the earth

Carved out by years of erosion

It was a bizarre labyrinth of colour and weird contours carved out from years of wind and water erosion, fascinating yet strangely eerie at the same time.

Looks just like folds of fabric

Everywhere you look is amazing

Sadly due to the volume of tours accessing the canyon almost at the same time, you had to keep constantly moving so you weren’t always able to take time to compose your shot or enjoy the atmosphere but we still managed to get some great pictures.

Red sandstone walls give it that orange colour

Swirls and waves

Called a slot canyon because its narrow

Only natural lighting from holes in the roof

Impeccably timed, we finished the slot tour (1 pm) with an hour to spare before our cruise on Lake Powell at 4.15 pm. 

View on way to Lake Powell

Wahweap Marina

Again, a completely different perspective of the Antelope Canyon but this time from the water. 

Sailing into Antelope Canyon

A very narrow gorge to sail through

The cruise boat sailed up narrow gorges, sometimes so close to the canyon sides you could almost reach out and touch the walls.  

Wow that was close!

A lovely and relaxing way to spend an afternoon, messing about on the river.

Sunset over Lake Powell

Tower Butte

Tonight’s stopover is in Page, a small town next to Lake Powell.  I’d like to say it was really picturesque and it would be if it wasn’t for a dirty great coal burning power station rising out of the desert floor like some fire-breathing dragon belching out a cloud of smoke stretching all the way from the outskirts of town to Las Vegas. 

The picturesque landscape of Page

However, we’ll go along with the illusion of picturesqueness by carefully cropping out the monstrosity when we edit our views of the landscape.

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