Tuesday: We decided to stay another day at the Grand Canyon, so we reserved our spot for another night. This is the only place the entire vacation that we stayed at one place for two nights :)
We loaded up our bikes, drove to the Grand Canyon Village and caught the shuttle to Hopi Point. This section of the road is for shuttle buses only, so there is very little traffic. When we got to Monument Creek Vista, we got on the new Greenway Trail (which is for bikes only). We road all the way to the point which is at Hermits Rest and road the shuttle back to the village. The weather is perfect, there is very little traffic and in this directly the road is mostly downhill or level. Phillip is not big on biking, but I think he is liking it more and more :) Riding our bikes along the south rim and the Greenway Trail:
Along the way we saw a helicopter flying very low with a seat or basket hanging from the bottom. At first we thought it was some kind of ride and I said there was no way I would fly from a basket off of the helicopter. Then we saw another one. When we got around a point so that we could see the other side of a hill, we saw that it was a rescue copter picking up people from a ledge on the side of a cliff! I took pictures, but all I had on me was my iphone so you can't really see much....
A squirrel enjoying the view :
We had a late lunch at the lodge, picked up some groceries for this evening and headed back to the camp. After dinner we road over to the tower again and stayed to see the sunset from the South Rim. Very pretty.....
As we were getting our privy tent ready for showers, a huge bull elk walked right past our camp site! I love camping :)
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