Yesterday I told you that there were lots of bunnies in this campground. That was true, yesterday! I couldn't find one single bunny today. Maybe the word got out that I was on the prowl, or maybe it was the change in the weather. I had to make due with my stuffed bunny, he's easier to catch anyway.
This morning Kathe and Jim decided to go for a hike on the Hickman Bridge Trail. It was rated as a moderate hike with an elevation of 400 feet. No hike is moderate in this desert, and this one was uphill for the first 3/4 of a mile. The only thing good about climbing up and over rocks and sand in this heat was the promise that the second half of the hike would be all downhill. They were almost to the top when the skies got dark and it started to thunder. They were warned about flash flooding and since it hadn't started raining they continued on to the bridge. One picture here is taken looking straight at the bridge and the other was taken under it. The bridge is 133 feet long and 125 feet wide and was formed over many years of erosion. They said it was really worth the hike up the mountain to see it. Click on the picture and you can enlarge it.
It stared to rain when they were almost back to the campground, big blobs of rain that soon turned into hail that made a racket on the top of our coach. More thunder and lightning, then just as fast, it was over. Of course Jim wanted to dry off and clean the motor home, even though Kathe and I told him it was going to rain again. He never listens to us, and guess what? It stared to rain a few hours later. It's starting to rain again tonight too.Tomorrow we are off to Escalante Petrified Forest State Park for 2 nights.
I will post from there if the Internet can find me. It's a pretty remote location.
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