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I was looking forward to today's activity: a visit to Antelope Canyon! We weren't sure if we were on time to see the sunbeam tour . As we walked out of the hotel a tour jeep was making a stop at the hotel . Ed asked the native woman who was very very kind (I forgot her name)  if we could come along on this tour. We hurried to gather our stuff and drove with them. Ed booked a double tour. One sunbeam and the lady said to him that both tours were beautiful showing the canyon in totally different lighting conditions .

After a 10 minute bumpy drive on a sandy road we arrived at the canyon . There were several groups entering the canyon but not all at once. Our group counted 9 people. Wow this was something!!! The colours, the light, everything. Just beautiful. If you ever go to Page, Arizona, make sure to visit and I didn't regret going twice.

The native lady was right, the morning tour and afternoon tour are so different. Last time it rained was last October. It flushed a lot of sand out of the canyon, increasing the depth by at least 50 cm, the wind will slowly refill the canyon with sand. The trunk of a cottonwood tree was stuck in the canyon, it was flushed down the canyon from thirty km away.

We grabbed a bite a the pizzahut in the late afternoon and went for a swim and some sunbathing at the hotel for only about an hour. It was time to purchase a suitcase because we bought too many clothes.
Last night we went to the rim of the lake but it was getting too dark to take much pictures . I only took a few of the lake itself, the other were from a beautiful wavy rock formation . We had planned to take a boat trip on the lake but decided otherwise because there was a stronger wind and weren't able to sit on deck.
In the evening we had dinner at the Dam Bar&Grill .

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