We left the hotel around 0915 to join a Grand Canyon Airways flight. It was a great flight and you could see a long way as sometimes the canyon visibility is considerably reduced due to pollution mainly from Los Angeles and the visbility can be reduced from 80 miles down to 18.
The flight in a DeHavilland Twin Otter aircraft lasted about 45 minutes and took in the North Rim (still closed due to snow) and the South Rim which is open all year. As is usual with US based Airlines there was no cabin service...
The views were magnificent and it is difficult to explain and the photos can never represent the magnitude of the Canyon area.
After that we took the shuttle bus along the South Rim where you can stand only a few inches away from a one mile drop with no protection whatsoever. Around 5/7 people die each year from fooling around at the edge. It takes some time to reach the bottom and even longer to collect you.
We took many photographs, too many for this Blog and so will only put a few for you to see.
At the end of the day we walked along the rim for about 1.5 miles back to the car before a pizza supper, boy do we live it up!
This place is well organised and you can get to see quite a lot in a short time and the aeroplane ride is well worth the investment. You can also take a smooth-water raft ride or a white-water raft down the Colorado River but quite frankly the latter is not our scene.
As it will take some time to sort out which pictures to put on the blog I will leave the entry at this point.
