Today was a relatively quiet day. We took our time getting ready this morning. So nice!
At noon, our tour guides picked us up at the campground for a 3-hour rafting trip down the Colorado River that included lunch.
Unlike the Snake River, the Colorado River was very muddy. One of the other tourists said it was like floating on chocolate milk. I would have described it more as café au lait.
And I can’t say the scenery was especially thrilling, but it was still nice.
On Thursday, our plan had been to get up and out the door by 6 a.m. so that we could take photos of the Teton mountain range at sunrise from Oxbow Bend Overlook, which was about an hour away.
But when Greg’s alarm went off at 5:30, he admitted that he would rather go back to bed instead. The hike around Jenny Lake had wiped us both out. Consequently, we decided to relax for the morning. There was nothing in the park that we felt a strong need to see by this point.
In the afternoon, we headed to Signal Mountain Lodge because we had tickets for a rafting trip down the Snake River.
On the way, we stopped to take a few more photos of the Teton mountains.
Signal Mountain Lodge is beautiful. The lobby area has a huge picture window overlooking the Teton mountain range and Jackson Lake.
The rafting trip didn’t start until 4:30, so I knew that we would not be getting great photos of the Teton mountains. It is simply impossible to get good photos of them in the afternoon because of the direction of the sun.
But I love any opportunity to get on the water, so off we went.
It did not disappoint.
Some of the wildlife we saw on our rafting trip included deer, a red fox, a hawk, a beaver, lots of merganser ducks, and eagles.
Since the park gets very dark at night, and it was a crescent moon, we decided to go back out and see if we could get some photos of the Milky Way.
This is the best I was able to accomplish with my cell phone.
On to Zion National Park!
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