Lake Powell and the Rainbow Bridge

We had a day out on Lake Powell, a huge man-made reservoir on the Colorado River, between Utah and Arizona. Lake Powell was created by the flooding of Glen Canyon. The reservoir supplies some states but has to provide a minimum flow to the lower states of Arizona, Nevada, and California. Some say that a water war is looming as California wants to keep its lawns and golf courses green but Colorado wants to irrigate and feed cattle.
We visited the world famous Rainbow Bridge a sacred place for some First Nation Tribes. It was hard to find, a two hour trip up Lake Powell
then by following a narrow twisting water
Filled canyon we came to a marina.






On foot we followed a trail up to the Bridge.
It is 275 feet across and is hard to believe that something like this could be formed naturally.
We started early, in fact earlier than we thought as we were on the wrong time zone but just made it back in time and are pretty tired and a little sun burnt.