Here, the San Juan River tries to outdo the Colorado at Horseshoe Bend, by doing three twirls instead of just the one. I was determined to get a shot with all three, but it’s impossible to get a good one unless you fly over, as you can see from this pano. It looks as though all we need to do is walk forward, but that red bit is metres below us, and actually lower than the tops of the mounds.
Like Antelope Canyon, this is run by the Navajo Indians, and they run things differently from the National Parks. There isn’t a lot of access unless you go on one of their tours. The road is unbelievably bad (not this one) and no way could we take our camper van along it. We had the sunrise tour, our guide took us in a Chevrolet 4X4 minibus and we were longing to get out and walk around the rocks, but that wasn’t allowed. However, we got this one, the tallest rock is called the Totem Pole, and was climbed (ha!) by Clint Eastwood and George Kennedy in ‘The Eiger Sanction’. I think I will have to watch that film again, now I know that.
This is a truly amazing place, and you can Google for great photos with the beams of light. Unfortunately, far too many people were allowed down there, and there was little opportunity to set shots up and get the exposure right. We got a couple of OK ones.
