The Desert Minx Part 3 – Sunday Sport headline…Outer Space Guy drives London bus

So en route to Canyonlands

Ant hills

Ant hills a la Martha Stewart colour swatch

Oh sh…supermarket deal of the day…

Irony from…..the God Squad…..???????

 In perspective it is all starting to feel a little unearthly

Funny no sign saying you are now entering booby county

 

A whole day of driving and 40 miles away from the nearest civilization again.

Yikes ….everyone has been eaten by the bloke who wears this…

And so to the camp site and just like West Texas we have seen jack sh..t for 3 hours and it’s full 

So we end up in Australia at the foot of Aluru

Busy busy busy

We have a great view of the sun setting behind the needles

And beetles

 Now we are cooking for three (not the beetle but Riona)

Night


Then dawn over the Needles

We go exploring and we cross the brow of the lunar landscape to this!

Then…

The lesser known Canyonlands Marriott Hotel

Hoodoos as in Palo Duro Palo Duro Canyon

Henry Moore?

The heat haze reduces the impact of the needles close up

But to give it perspective check out white van man

 
Then you get amongst it all, we didn’t have time to go all the way in. Apparently you can camp...but it is eery

Was it something we said?

Then in the midst of barreness

The view across the valley

I wouldn’t want to spend the night in there, though you can…
but there is a limited food source

Back at base camp Riona decides to refresh her climbing skills au naturel

Even without shoes getting purchase proves difficult

A lovely smile from a perch that looks like a giant grimace

Riona have you got that tshirt of mine?????




Unwilling to give in to my back issue I practice my climbing skills while cook takes over

Keeping up her strength to cope with staying with her mother and do without straighteners

Dawn again and this has been like a giant sentinel

And so to catch up on the news  - The Native American Indian equivalent of the Telegraph…..Lots of words...Today in Parliament

Daily Star…bigger print less complex pictures…

And Sunday Sport claims this was driving a London Bus through Midsommer Norton

And we end on an educational note Newspaper Rock

Medical note ..I am starting to need an ambulance