Goblin Valley State Park

Now here is a strange place to visit.

After driving across a flat expanse of mostly nothing you come across a few outcroppings of red rock buttes.  Eventually you reach the mountains again and you enter Goblin Valley State Park.  Once parked in the parking lot you can walk to the overlook and immediately you feel you've been transported into an animated movie in pause mode.

You look down into a bowl filled with fantastic creatures magically transformed into stone.  One gets the feeling that to stay the night in this place would be a very surreal experience.  You can easily imagine these formations coming to life.

Setting  our imaginations free we wandered around these incredible formations.  Dogs, ducks, mushrooms and of course, goblins are everywhere.

I even found where they come from.  This portal to the underworld must be from whence they came to our world, where in the light of day they become stone awaiting the night so they may wander at will.

Turning still another corner reveals a hidden passage.  I ventured in briefly but the taunting voices of trapped goblins convinced me that perhaps I should leave-NOW!  ...or maybe it was just the wind, I shall never know...

On our way out of the park we passed this amazing butte with layers of colours that we never get tired of.

We took a side trip to Wild Horse Canyon where I shot this tree in a wash.  Washes are the watercourses that flash floods take so caution must always be exercised as flash floods may occur as a result of rains hundreds of miles away.