Sunday.

One is allowed to drive into the park but discouraged by virtually no parking. Need to get there by 7-7:30 to get a spot. Shuttle runs from town. Far better.

We walked in from the hotel.

A day of spectacular rocks and bumbleberries. Patience, first the rocks and then the bumbleberries.

The Virgin River made this Canyon.

Road has been closed several times in the last 20 years to to rock slides or gigantic flash floods. People were stranded at the Zion Lodge; lucky them.

Rock climbing. Can you see them? Really small.

Sandstone varnish. The biology of their color is not understood according to signage. It is biology, not geology that is thought to be there cause. Alge are involved.

Hanging Gardens caused by the water running down vertically rather than horizontally in the river bed.

The path not taken as the road narrows after here and the water eventually moves up from your knees to your waist to your head level; path not taken at least by Boogs.

Finally the bumbleberries.

A local pie shop here is selling bumbleberry pie. Went in to look at and ask what are bumbleberry. Well she replied they are a hybrid of two other very special berries. Which ones I inquired. That is a secret they are grown and a Hidden Valley that nobody knows where they are. Must be a Utah story.

It’s not on the menu.

While ordering dinner I saw this dish of vegetables go by. How do I get that I did not see it on the menu? Well it’s not on the menu but you can have it.

Enough said.