Such a busy place to visit.
We tied up downstream a ways and then the crowd cleared out.
Havasu creek is well-known for its blue-green color…
…and travertine formations due to large amounts of calcium carbonate in the water.
People of the blue-green water, the Havasupai have called Grand Canyon home for about 800 years.
The Havasupai people still live in the canyon, farming on a flood plain about 8.5 miles from the Colorado River in Cataract Canyon. Yet tourism is the primary source of revenue for the tribe.
We had the lower pools to ourselves and thoroughly enjoyed the 70 degree water after the 50 degree Colorado River.
Several miles upstream magnificent waterfalls can be seen. I hiked down to those with a fellow Ranger in April 2010.
But this day, we returned to the river.
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Beautiful!!!
~shoes~
Amazing photos as always.Diane
Gaelyn I cannot believe the color of that water! it looks turquoise to me! Wow! It is a liquid necklace in the canyon! I would love to go for a swim!
Gotta do that trip one of these days.
Wow, that water is such an unusual blue colour. Beautiful!!
Beautiful! Saw it once in the 80s when it was in flood and red and muddy.
What an amazing spot that looks like. The kind of spot you want to have to yourself and not share with crowds. Not always possible, I know.
The blue green water is impressive as it enters the muddy Colorado.
The pool looks perfect for a swim.
The blue-green water has a milky look about it, very unusual, though some Swiss rivers have a similar look about them.
Were you any near the location of London Bridge which was transported stone by stone to Arizona?
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