Our day consisted of a lot of driving. We left Antelope Island for Bryce Canyon. We drove close to seven hours. At this point were used to long drives, so seven hours is really nothing at this point. We entertain ourselves enough to make the rides seem shorter. Sleeping helps as well.
We got to our campsite first which was about 35 minutes from the canyon. The campsite was 15 minutes down a bumpy dirt road where we had the entire site to ourselves. We did a three mile hike in the canyon. There were people everywhere, it kind of took the experience away a bit. But I told myself to ignore the croud and appreciate the spectacular geology. I got some great pictures, the sky was amazing on this day, making for an awesome background behind the red rock of the hoodoos (hoodoos are the eroded rocks that you can see in the picture). Hoodoos are made of stone more resistant to the weathering than the surrounding sedimentary rock. The size of the canyon wasn't too impressive, but its beauty sure made up what it lacked in size.
After the hike we got to take showers and do laundry. It was very relieving. I ran out of clean clothes a couple days earlier. The laundry took a while so we had gotten back to the campsite kind of late. I was shocked by how cold it had gotten after the sun set. It was one of the coldest nights so far and it was 90 degrees earlier.
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