Moab (leg two)

The next stop was in Moab.  It was considerably warmer here, but we got there just in time for a really great wind storm.  We went into Arches National Park but we could hardly stay on our feet for the wind.  So we went down this canyon south of the park which was shielded from the wind.  We didn't know what would be here but we saw some trail heads so we picked one and found that this spot was by far superior to the park.  This is a bridge that is getting pretty close to arch-hood.

There weren't many spring flowers out, but this cactus was nice

This is the best arch we saw, it is called Corona Arch and it was spectacular in the morning sun, it is probably about 3 stories high and we had to climb around and up a big hill so we didn't see it until the very end

This one is mostly for Martell, I don't know what these are but they look like petrified mud drops, they were all over on the way to Corona Arch, my camera stopped working for a while after this because it was cold but I am pretty sure there were some petrified dinosaur tracks up there too.  Esther didn't think so but I am pretty confident that I am right because I usually am.

This is the ledge on the other side of Corona Arch, again it is hard to capture the magnitude of the scene, but it was a drastic drop to the bottom.....I am glad we didn't do a night hike on this one.