Wednesday morning we were awake before dawn but managed an early morning nap, packed up, and pulled out of the campground around 8:00. After a quick stop for coffee in Grand Junction we headed to our first top, Trail through Time. This was a little BLM area with a fossil site that is actively worked by scientists and volunteers during periods of each year. We could see this quarry area and on our short hike also saw two spots where dinosaur fossils were left in place.
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| The dark areas on these 2 photos are the fossils in situ. The 1st photo shows the pelvis bone of a juvenile dinosaur. The second one is of a spine. |
From there we headed to Green River for lunch at Tamarisk. That was enjoyable and from there we headed to Goblin Valley State Park in Utah. Our first stop was Valley of the Goblins. It is difficult to describe. Just take a look at the pictures. We toured a small part of this three-square mile area for about 30 minutes then headed to our campsite. That was also an amazing area with a great view and little places to explore.
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| Valley of the Goblins |
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| Formations from valley level. So strange and cool. |
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| The Three Sisters |
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| View from our campsite |
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| Another campsite view. The little shelters were great b/c they had wind barriers on the side that the strong winds came from. |
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| View of the backside of our campsite |
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| Nighttime view from our campsite |
We were going to stay up and enjoy the dark skies but there was a light cloud cover, so we went to bed at dark. Overnight we did get up briefly and the sky had cleared. We could see the Milky Way. An amazing site!
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