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Picture of the Day
I found this Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) on our July 2012 Grand Canyon trip, near Sinyella Canyon, where it posed for a few moments with a newly caught fish in it's beak as I drifted past. I took a handful of pictures of this unusual moment and I like the Mauv Limestone boulders in the background of this one the best. Enjoy!
Picture of the Day
Today I'm sharing an image from our July 2012 Grand Canyon trip. I took this late in the afternoon from our camp at Cove Canyon (Mile 174.2) looking upstream to the east as I watched the last major thunderhead of a truly spectacular day drift out of sight. The rocks range from the Cambrian Bright Angel Shale at the bottom up through the Mauv Limestone and the Mississippian Redwall Limestone to the redbeds of the Permian Supai group on the top of the far wall. The rim visible from the river in this section of the canyon is formed by the resistant Esplanade Sandstone of the Supai Group, which took it's name from the broad platform formed on top of it in the Western Grand Canyon. I find the way that the curve of the bright clouds echoes that of the shadowed hillside below to be very appealing. Enjoy!
