San Juan River Rafting trip

1 San Juan River near Mexican Hat, UT	2 getting ready for our river rafting trip	3 our boat and tour guide. he was very knowledgeable about geology and history of the area. Keith on the right	4 Keith and Egidio patiently waiting
5 on the river	6 Francisco in our raft	7 Bill in our raft	8 our first stop, we visited a canyon wall
9 Petroglyphs	10 E.T.	11 Keith and our tour guide	12 our second stop, we visited a puebloan archeological site
13 more petroglyphs	14 cliff dwelling ruins across the river	15	16 Bill and our group walk toward a puebloan cliff dwelling
17	18 we climbed all the way up to the cliff dwelling	19	20 the view from the dwelling
21 Pictographs	22 our tour guide, whose grand-father was Salvadorian	23 Francisco near one of the dwellings	24 Bill and Francisco take a moment for a picture
25 time for lunch along the river	26 beautiful setting for a lunch break	27 an almost eternal embrace	28 back on the river
29	30	31 getting into the only gooseneck on the trip	32 blue heron
33	34 arriving at Mexican Hat	35	36 in the background, Monument Valley can be seen
37 Mexican Hat Navajo children playing in the San Juan river	38 after a long day we relaxed at our hotel with some local brew