Hurricane,Utah - Sand Hollow State Park

Just a few more days here at Sand Hollow State Park before heading to the Grand Canyon.  Just a few more days here at Sand Hollow State Park before heading to the Grand Canyon.  The weather continues to be in the 70’s and it’s been great.  We took another kayaking trip on the lake, but this one was right before sunset so we could watch the sun set and then a little later to watch the full moon rise up.  It was a beautiful "hunter's moon".  We also made another trip up to Zion National Park hoping to be able to see the other half of the park, but they had the road closed off to private vehicles.   Even the shuttle busses weren't running.  Disappointed at that.  So we ended up taking a long hike up one of the other canyons.  It was a very nice hike.  Last Tuesday and Wednesday we rented an OHV (Off Highway Vehicle), Polaris Razor 1000, for a couple days and did some off-roading in the Utah dessert and the hills around St. George and into Arizona.  We saw a number of petroglyphs and dinosaur tracks during our exploration.  Really cool stuff.  We had a blast.  Didn’t realized how much we missed having our ATVs.  We even took a trip to the local Polaris dealer and got info on some OHVs.  We know we won’t be getting anything anytime soon, but it was fun looking.  Today we went to the St. George Temple and attended a session.  What a beautiful temple.  It was a wonderful afternoon.   Here are some pictures of our travels to date.

Kaying before sunset 

Trent and his first kayaking trip

Looking for rabbits everywhere he goes.

Kayaking buddy

Neat rock formations around the lake

Waiting for the moon to come up

Beautiful sunset on the lake

Bruce and Trent at sunset

Back at the motorhome with moon in background

Found this old fort on our ATV ride.  Pretty neat stuff.

The two dinosaurs that left the tracks pictured below

Baby dilophosaurus track

Adult megapnosaurus track

Petroglyphs

Here is a rock I'd take home if I could.  Wouldn't fit in motorhome.

More petroglyphs

Roberta is in heaven

Picture of the OHV we rented with sun setting in background.

Sun setting while we were out on top of the sand dunes

The sand dunes were a very red sand.

More red dunes.  ATVing on the dunes was awesome.

Volcano mountains in the background

Roberta wanted this rock too.

And this one.

Enjoying our petroglyph hunt

Really enjoying our petroglyph hunting

Hiking up a canyon in Zion

Easy walking right up the wash.  Always alert to flash flooding.

Having lunch on the rocks.