Tracks in the sand

Do you ever wonder what it is that left tracks in the sand?

Mike and I were walking the beach along Lake Powell last week and saw these, which he says were left by a duck.

Darkling Beetle Coniontis

And I’ve followed these crisscrossing tracks many times but this is the first I’ve seen the beetle that made them.

SWF – A round about way for groceries

On the way to go grocery shopping in Page, Arizona Mike and I hiked the Toadstools trail in the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument and camped at Lone Rock Beach in Utah.

That’s about 140 miles one way along the northern route.

Lone Rock Beach is part of the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.

The 130 mile return home after shopping the next day along the southern route takes us across Navajo Bridge where we saw California Condors.

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Lake Powell

I headed east to camp for the night at Lone Rock beach along Lake Powell in Utah.  Read more here.

My World Tuesday - Lone Rock Beach Lake Powell

After leaving Buckskin Gulch I’d planned to hike the 1.5 mile (2.4 km) Toadstool Trail in Grand Staircase Escalante but it was 2pm and too hot to hike with no shade. Another day.

I continued on to Lone Rock Beach at Lake Powell where you drive right onto the beach to camp. It was still hot and also very windy so I parked nose into the wind and made my own shade.

Wahweap Bay is just one little finger of Lake Powell.

RVs, tents & houseboats line the shore for maybe a mile. I’ll bet they’re stacked on top of each other during the summer.

I sat outside working on my evening program, actually trying to remember and rework last year’s program. I’ll post this sometime.

And watching the world watch me.

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