The King of Canyons

The King of Canyons - Part 2

We left the trailer in the parking lot and drove towards Kings Canyon. At the road edge were sheer drops into the canyon. We had an amazing view of two rivers and the canyons they made, merge to one.

We progressed down the mountain to the rivers edge, an unexpected ice cream shop appeared, and Grandma treated. It was a lovely scene with a river bubbling over rocks with cliffs towering in the background.

We stopped for a short walk to Grizzly Falls. The kids were in the river in an instant. They wandered through the pools at the bottom of the falls and climbed on the rocks. The only way to get them out was to convince them to walk through the river towards the parking lot.

To be continued...

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Wednesday, May 25th –Lake Mead National Recreation Area to Las Vegas, Nevada – Day 104 We woke up in our roadside turn out and got ready for the day. Our plan was to go for a swim at Lake Mead, see the Hoover Dam and head back into Vegas. The morning was stifling hot, we were looking forward to the swim. We drove to the visitor centre at Lake Mead Recreation Centre. We could see Lake Mead on the way. The water was well below the high-water line on the rocks. At the visitor centre we got our passport stamped, filled our water bottles, and received junior ranger booklets. The air conditioning was so nice we set up the kids to work on their booklets and hung around. The kids finished up enough activities that they were sworn in by a very nice ranger before we left. We decided to go see the Hoover Dam first. We dropped the trailer in the parking lot. We heard it might need to be opened at the security checkpoint and we couldn’t be bothered. The H...

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