Havasupai

Havasupai is one of the most incredible places Patrick and I have ever been. That's an impressive claim considering we lived in Kauai. Havasupai is down in one of the canyons that goes into the Grand Canyon. You hike in 10 miles to the campground. The water comes from an underground spring so it has a lot of lime in it that makes it this incredible blue color. This is Havasu Falls as seen in the movie Next.

The lime also forms terraces in the river all along the way.
You can also see that the lime creates stalactite-like formations along the walls by the waterfalls. This is Mooney Falls.

To get to the bottom of Mooney Falls you get to go through this hole that has been dug through the rock.

Then you have to climb down the wall where there are chains bolted into the rock.

Further down the river there are a number of places to cliff jump and this rope swing.

This is about where we were, about 3 miles down river from the campground when we saw the helicopter come by. It hovered near us and held out a sign that said, "FLOOD". Then he after we started to walk back upstream, he pointed for us to walk DOWNstream. All he really did was confuse us. We waited about 30 minutes and then headed back toward the campground. The flood did come but the river only raised about 9 in. so we managed to make our way back to camp. This is Mooney falls again so you can compare the blue and brown waterfalls.

The next day the water was still brown but not quite so brown. This is a small part of Navajo falls.

This is me. You had to climb down this using this rope to get the the edge.

This is Havasu Falls again with brown water.

There are 600 Havasu indians that live in teh canyon. Their people have lived here for 800 years. We happened to be down there at the time of a festival.



This is Miss Havasupai herself. We got her autograph, too.


This is a part of the village. These rocks are called the guardians of the tribe.

On our way out of town, Patrick really wanted to get fry bread. It ended up being really tasty with beans and cheese.

On our hike out we walked through the thickest gnats I have ever encountered for about a half mile. He were spped walkign and my arm was getting just as tired as my legs from waving frantically in front of my face. When we got through we noticed that there were tons of dead gnats stuck in our hair. You can see them in this picture.