After the shuttle experience at Zion National Park, it was a pleasure to experience Vermilion Cliffs National Monument. Accessed from a dirt road, it was us and one other car in the parking lot. Vermilion is so named because of its brilliant red color, due to mercury sulfide, aka cinnabar. (See my other post on New Alamaden Mining on this precious mineral.) We saw the monument near sunset, another treat.
We also went a little further down that dirt road to the condor viewing site. These are California condors, who have been reintroduced here because the cliffs provide so many alcoves and niches to rest and hide. Did we see a condor? No. But we were impressed with their wing span, longer than I am tall.
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