our-grand-americas-adventure

After we left the park, we went to see some bears close up at a rehab centre. The Grizzlies in the wild are at high elevation at this time of year, feeding themselves up for winter, on – believe it or not – tens of 1000’s of butterflies a day! We also saw a very rare white elk.
After Yellowstone, it was time to head South. We traveled quickly through Utah for reasons some of you will understand.
However, we did spend some time in the parks at the southern end of the State – the incredible Arches and Canyonlands continued to amaze us with the diversity of scenery and rock formations in this part of the US.
This part of the country is also rich in Dinosaur tracks and fossils. We spent a very interesting time studying this for ourselves on a wet afternoon. We discovered a small museum in an out-of-the-way, one-horse town in Arizona, which was truly remarkable and very educational for the kids (and us!). A piece of the world’s oldest known meteorite was exhibited. It was from Namibia and estimated at over 4,5 billion years. As old as the Earth itself! A petrified tree dated at pre-dinosaur! at 270 million years (behind Keean).

Our next stop was the Grand Canyon. Just see some of the pictures. Awesome.