Looking straight down 2000+ feet from Cable Mountain to Zion Canyon. It really gives the perspective of eternity.
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Wild Weekly’s Photo Contest- Scary!!!
I’m participating in the online adventure travel and photography magazine LetsBeWild.com’s Wild Weekly Photo Challenge for bloggersThis week’s Challenge is: Scary!
Let’s say you were hiking through the desert and you heard a noise beside you, something between a rattle and a noise maker from a new year’s party. You look down, and your worst fear is realized. You are face to face to a Diamond Back Rattlesnake!
What’s that you say? What do you do? DON’T PANIC! They are more afraid of you than you are of them. If they feel threatened, they will strike. Don’t run, but get out of there as quickly as possible.
These guys also instill panic to divers and other such sea faring folk:
Yes, this is the Lion Fish! One of the worst fish to tangle with. It carries a sting worse than an electric eel and is poisonous! Just like another sea creature that flows with the current: The dreaded jellyfish.
Yes, this guy can do lots of damage so avoid them as well.
Sometimes, fear can be instilled with something less insidious as what’s been shown up to now. Have you ever seen an insect that is large, scaly, has large antennae and scary looking? I’m sure you have, but have you ever seen one of these?
This little guy was on the back of a chair at work. No one had ever seen anything like it and to date, it’s yet to be identified. Here’s the side view.
It is a nasty looking bug. Anyone know what it is? If you do, please let me know, I’m very interested.
A friend of mine had an iguana and I was lucky enough to capture it on film.
I love the lighting here, makes it look like something out of a horror flick.
Sometimes I get vertigo standing on the edge of a cliff, thankfully not very often, usually when I have zoomed in to what ever is below. However, I have a friend that loves to sit on the edge of the cliff.
It’s beautiful here, in my beloved Zion National Park. This was taken from Cable Mountain, which is about 2,200 feet above the valley floor. This is what my friend was looking at.
If you look closely, you’ll see the famous Zion Park Shuttle stopped at the Weeping Rock Shuttle Stop.
Around 1900 to 1930, lumber from Ponderosa Pine was lowered on a cable to the valley floor below for building material, since cottonwood is not very good for building. This was before the tunnel in Zion was completed in 1930, and it was a 100 mile trek on horse and buggy around through Arizona to get from East Zion to West Zion.
Kelly Guymon Photography 