Cape Royal and the Colorado River

  The Angel's Window at Cape Royal

Still in Grand Canyon National Park, we drove out to Cape Royal; at the second viewpoint, we got our first look at the Colorado River far below. It was brown in colour, and was described by an early explorer as "too thick to drink, and too thin to plow." Once right out on the Cape, we started down the trail and were surprised to see another view of the river, this time seen through what's called the Angel's Window, an arch in a limestone point. Later we walked out to the point, right over the arch; look closely at the photo and you'll see people on the top.

Lunch on the edge

Back at the parking lot we got our lunch and looked for a place to have a picnic; we saw a great spot, but 4 people beat us to it - they told us they were only there to take photos - we we took some of them and then we carefully exchanged places and they took a few of us!  What a view.