Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Canyon Morning

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Young 'Norris' and I got up at 5am (leaving the rest of the family gently snoring!) and crept away from our room to catch the sunrise in the Grand Canyon, from the North Rim Visitor Centre. It's a fine sight, and one of the few times of day when smoke from the adjacent forest fires doesn't make the view impenetrably hazy. The sunrise wasn't anything like as 'magical'as the one we experienced at Bryce Canyon a few days before, but yet it would have just seemed wrong to lie dozing in our cabin - not 500 yards from the rim as the first fingers of light felt their way through the tangles of clefts and ridges.

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