Big Bend National Park (again)

Some additional images from my recent trip to Big Bend, supplemented with ones I said I would post from the 1998 January Term course that included a raft trip through Santa Elena Canyon.

When the Great Creator had finished making the Earth, a large amount of stony material was left over. Having finished with the main job, the Great Creator tossed the leftovers into a great heap in a remote part of the Earth, creating the Big Bend country – Native American legend.

The Chisos from Rio Grande Village

The Chisos from the west

It is a desert with lots of blind prickly pear

And Ocotillo

Here is a Santa Elena Canyon series

Finally an artistic view of the South Rim