Traveling around the Southwest

I recently took a little vacation to the Southwest US, and of course I used this opportunity to take lots and lots of pictures.

You can view the full collection of photos here, but be warned – there are a lot of photos. If you’d rather not spend all day looking at all those photos (and keep in mind, those are just the GOOD ones – I actually took a lot more than that; it took me nearly 3 days to sort through them all) then here are some highlights:

our plane for the ride to the bar 10 ranch from las vegas

I flew on a very small plane.

keith gets ready to shoot-1

Did a little skeet shooting at a ranch.

keith and helicopter

Took a helicopter ride…

into the grand canyon by helicopter

…down into the Grand Canyon.

getting the raft ready for our first day on the river

Got on a raft.

shooting some rapids

Went through some rapids.

my wet foot

Got soaked.

keith's adventuring pose on the raft on day 2

Did some adventuring.

my bed

Camped out.

beautiful clear blue skies and gold canyon walls on the 3rd day

Saw the Grand Canyon from the bottom.

keith at the hoover dam (nevada side)

Saw the Hoover Dam.

flower snail

Spent some time in that crazy place known as Las Vegas.

keith the adventurer

Did some more adventuring in canyons (different ones this time).

sunrise with filter

Saw the sun rise from 8000 feet above sea level.

keith does his adventurer pose at zion national park

Did lots of hiking.

the virgin river in the zion narrows

Did some hiking through some very narrow places.

grand canyon panorama 1

Saw the Grand Canyon (from the top this time).

grand canyon rim at sunset

Both at sunset…

the sun rises over the rim of the grand canyon

…and at sunrise.

All in all, a fun trip. And a great chance for me to really use my camera and try and take some interesting photos (different from the photos I usually get to take around home).

The full collection of photos is available (and nicely organized) over on Flickr, if you care to look.

By Keith Survell

Geek, professional programmer, amateur photographer, crazy rabbit guy, only slightly obsessed with cute things.