Thursday, October 23, 2014

Three-4-Thursday

It's Only Natural

The day following the end of our trip on the San Juan River, Kathy and I traveled north to take in more of the fantastic scenery of southeastern Utah.  Included was a quick tour of Natural Bridges National Monument.  This monument is famous for its three spectacular  bridges.



Our first stop was at Sipapu ("place of emergence" in Hopi) Bridge.  While Kathy stopped at a very nice viewpoint halfway down the trail, I continued down to the bridge, shown above.  Later, we stopped at the viewpoint for Kachina Bridge (seen below), named for the Hopi kachina spirits.

At our final stop along the monument's loop road, we had a nice view of Owachomo ("rock mound") Bridge.  It is the oldest of the three largest bridges in the monument.

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