Page, AZ - Oct 20: We were sold down the river by our rafting company. Actually that is not true, they were forced to cancel all their trips for today due to a forecast of very high winds. Safety first you know. And the forecast was correct. But Andra and I were left to find something to do in place of our half-day raft trip through Glen Canyon to Lee’s Ferry. We actually drove down to Lee’s Ferry, crossing the Colorado River on the Navajo Bridge at Marble Canyon. This historic ferry site is the “jumping off” place for Grand Canyon rafting trips, so upstream is Glen Canyon and downstream is the Grand, at least as far as rafting is concerned.
Later we returned to Page and continued north to Big Water, Utah to visit the dinosaur exhibit at the Grand Staircase- Escalante National Monument visitor center. Our day was slow but enjoyable, and by nightfall we were ready to get out of the increasingly strong wind.