Day 3

Our hike

Walking/swimming through the pools

Today as Miles and I awoke we had breakfast duty.  Brendan and Carson were teamed up with us and we were all tasked to make “scromlets.”  A scromlet consists of scrambled up eggs with omelet ingredients mixed in. 

This trip is constantly getting more and more awesome.  There were not really any rapids of note today, but some were sure big enough to get your heart beat up.  We also hiked up another side canyon; this one was made of limestone so it was very slick when it got wet.  Of course all of our shoes and feet were wet because we were also hiking through pools.  The whole canyon had a sort of terrace design where you would go through a big pool, and then you would scramble up the rock to the next layer.  At the top there was a pool that was about fifteen feet long by eight feet wide and twelve feet deep.  Some of the people climbed up above it then slid down into it, which looked pretty cool.  This was also the site of the famous battle cry, "I will not give in to peer pressure!!!"





Ha ha little ant people

We stopped for lunch at a place called Red Rock Cavern.  It was a huge hole dug back into the rock that seemed the size of a football field.  When you looked at it with the perspective of people standing in it, the people looked like ants.  Later in the day, back on the river, we stopped off to refill our water at this amazing spring that just appeared right out of the rock.  It was a crazy sight to see, there you are in the middle of the desert, and boom there is water flowing out of a rock.  It looked like a little oasis of green amongst all the brown. 

A beautiful sight, not something you expect to see in a desert.

Right before camp we stopped off to see some fossils of what used to be ocean life, it was kind of cool to think of that part of the Grand Canyon to have once been part of the ocean.  That night at camp we also broke out the corn hole game for the first time.  It was a pretty cool game but the similarities between the bean bags thrown and myself makes me uneasy around it, even though Miles promises he will not throw me.

The awesome game of corn hole

Fossils from the ocean





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