Day1-4
We are here in St. George, Utah, and have a wonderful group of people to join us on the Grand Circle Caravan Tour. Two couples joined us on the East Coast Trip and we were able to visit with them when we were in their area while on the Lewis & Clark Trip and now we will be enjoying another 29 days with them!
The weather is “a little” better than Las Vegas, but during the day it is still hot. We started off the trip with our orientation and a welcome dinner.
Our last day in St. George was a free day where we decided to visit Snow Canyon.
We are here in St. George, Utah, and have a wonderful group of people to join us on the Grand Circle Caravan Tour. Two couples joined us on the East Coast Trip and we were able to visit with them when we were in their area while on the Lewis & Clark Trip and now we will be enjoying another 29 days with them!
The weather is “a little” better than Las Vegas, but during the day it is still hot. We started off the trip with our orientation and a welcome dinner.
This is a FABULOUS RV park. The amenities are endless, pool, not one but 3 pool tables, air hockey, ping pong, etc., etc., etc. PLUS Ira, the owner’s son who is managing the park, was a wonderful guide. He is a 5th or 6th generation in this area and knows all the ins and outs. He’s great!
We took the St. George Live City Tour, which included the Tabernacle built in 1863 and completed in 1871, the courthouse and Brigham Young’s Winter Home.
We took the St. George Live City Tour, which included the Tabernacle built in 1863 and completed in 1871, the courthouse and Brigham Young’s Winter Home.
When we arrived in the courtroom, we found a mock court trial about ready to start. It was the case of the water thief. It seems that the town gets irrigation from a mountain spring which runs through the town in the street gutters. Each resident was allowed 4 hours a day about once a week to have the water irrigate his property. In order to do that, they had a manual system of routing the water to their property. It seems that the townspeople used to cheat (can you imagine that….) By placing a stone under the board, which routed the water, unless you looked closely at the curb, you might not realize that water was being taken illegally. They said stealing water was worse that stealing a horse. The judge announced someone in our group was the accused. And 4 people were selected as the jury. It was a pretty funny skit.
It was an early day, so Marcia, Bobby, Bill and I took off on our own and visited the Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm and Rosenbruch Foundation World Wildlife Museum.
The Johnson Dinosaur track has a dinosaur raised print – there is only one other like it in America. It was found while the owner of the farm was digging on his property. It started out with just a tent like structure over the area and is now enclosed in a building with many dinosaur tracks that they found, along with eggs (Baby Louie is the most complete dinosaur hatchling ever found in a group of eggs) and fossils. It is the original discovery track-bearing surface and contains over 1000 tracks of all shape and sizes. For anyone who is into dinosaurs, they found tracks for Anomoepus, Grallator, Eubrontes, as well as some unidentified tracks. It’s hard to believe that dinosaurs were running around this area and even harder to believe that they were discovered in our lifetime!
It was an early day, so Marcia, Bobby, Bill and I took off on our own and visited the Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm and Rosenbruch Foundation World Wildlife Museum.
The Johnson Dinosaur track has a dinosaur raised print – there is only one other like it in America. It was found while the owner of the farm was digging on his property. It started out with just a tent like structure over the area and is now enclosed in a building with many dinosaur tracks that they found, along with eggs (Baby Louie is the most complete dinosaur hatchling ever found in a group of eggs) and fossils. It is the original discovery track-bearing surface and contains over 1000 tracks of all shape and sizes. For anyone who is into dinosaurs, they found tracks for Anomoepus, Grallator, Eubrontes, as well as some unidentified tracks. It’s hard to believe that dinosaurs were running around this area and even harder to believe that they were discovered in our lifetime!
The World Wildlife Museum is the 5th largest animal display in the world. Animals from all over the world are in real life poses. I like the way they laid the museum out, by country. 
Our first “full” day of touring was to Zion National Park. We started out early ready for the “heat” of the day, only to find, it was a little chilly. It wasn’t until almost noon that it got warm. It was just as I remembered it—BEAUTIFUL! 
You will notice some of the tops of the formations are while, while the lower part are reddish. The color is due to “staining” from the minerals as the rains suck the minerals out of the sandstone.
We stopped at Temple of Sinawava, where the river canyon narrows abruptly, Big Ben, Angel’s Landing, Weeping Rock, where a dripping spring feeds the hanging garden of ferns and mosses.
Because the cliffs’ Navajo sandstone is porous, it acts as a vertical reservoir. Snowmelt percolates down through the sandstone. When it reaches an impermeable layer of siltstone, the moisture travels along cracks until it emerges from canyon walls, punctuating the cliffs with damp micro-habitats. Life concentrates in those green niches.
Checkerboard Mesa has lines in a checkboard shape on the entire mountain.”
Angels Landing is where many deaths each year occur….. Two weeks prior to our visit a young mother was posing for a photo and fell off the top of the cliff…..
Our ride home found some nappers.
We stopped at Temple of Sinawava, where the river canyon narrows abruptly, Big Ben, Angel’s Landing, Weeping Rock, where a dripping spring feeds the hanging garden of ferns and mosses.
Because the cliffs’ Navajo sandstone is porous, it acts as a vertical reservoir. Snowmelt percolates down through the sandstone. When it reaches an impermeable layer of siltstone, the moisture travels along cracks until it emerges from canyon walls, punctuating the cliffs with damp micro-habitats. Life concentrates in those green niches.
Checkerboard Mesa has lines in a checkboard shape on the entire mountain.”
Angels Landing is where many deaths each year occur….. Two weeks prior to our visit a young mother was posing for a photo and fell off the top of the cliff…..
Our ride home found some nappers.
Our last day in St. George was a free day where we decided to visit Snow Canyon.
While driving through the canyon, we found remnants of the black lava. 
We found the volcano just outside of the park. 
Our last night in St. George, Marcia and I fixed dinner for our group. Of course, the fact that we had leftovers from our welcome dinner, made it a lot easier for us! And we had a wonderful ice cream social provided for by our campground (boy they spoiled us!).
Tomorrow, on to Jacob Lake, Arizona.
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