Category: Cathedral Gorge

Cathedral Gorge State Park – Tuesday September 9, 2014

We made it through all the bad weather.  What was left of hurricane Nordbert came through here yesterday and made a mess of things just to the south of us.  We made the right decision to stay here and set out the storm.  One of the campgrounds I had targeted to go to is on the Virgin River in the area where Hwy I-15 got washed out.  We’ll have to wait and see if the campground is even still there.  The whole town of Mesquite, Nevada lost power and is not supposed to it back until today.
We have been here so long I think we need another campsite picture.

This is the satellite TV antenna using firewood to keep it from blowing over.  I also have an arrangement to use water as the weight to hold it in place, you’ll get to see that later.

We will be leaving here tomorrow (Wednesday September 10) for out two weeks at Zion, from what I have been able to read this morning all the Virgin River destruction was south of St. George and everything at Zion is fine.  Like yesterday the internet connection comes and goes.
We don’t have clouds like this at home so I am obligated to take pictures and show them.

I will not bother you with any more today, however I do have more.

Cathedral Gorge State Park, NV – Monday September 8, 2014

We are still at Cathedral Gorge setting out the weather.  This seemed like to be a good place to be with all the potential flooding the weather channel was talking about over the last several days.  I talked to one of the park people and he said he hoped we’d get some rain but we would not have any  flooding here in the park.
This place does have a of interesting formations.
It has been a little hot for Hank, he really wanted to play with one of these bones but it was just to warm to move.

This was the clouds a hour before it started to rain.  Started at 12:30 and lasted 15 minutes, nothing like they got in Phoenix this morning.  The ground got wet and cooled things off a bit and that’s about all the rain for now.  Still a nice day in my book.  We got some wind Sunday at dinner time with a little rain.  The wind did help to coat the inside of the motorhome with a nice layer of dust.  Still have some thunder so we may get more rain, we’ll see.

We may leave here Tuesday if the weather clears up and definitely on Wednesday.

 

 

Cathedral Gorge State Park, NV – Saturday September 6, 2014

We are still at Cathedral Gorge and the weather has been great, normal for the Southwest.  Hank and I have run the A/C a couple of times and that has been nice.
Tomorrow we are leaving to move a little further south.  Going to either Virgin River Canyon Campground a BLM area 20 miles south of St. George, Utah (into Arizona) or Sand Hollow State Park outside Hurricane, Utah.
Hank and I have been up and out each morning for a nice walk before the sun gets to high in the sky and hot.

If we end up at the Virgin River Canyon Campground I’m pretty sure we will not have cellphone coverage for a couple of days.  We will be at Zion National Park on Wednesday 9/10/2014 and we should have good coverage there.

Be well, Harry

 

 11:00 a.m. update.

Just looked at the weather maps for the hurricane which is moving north from Baja.  We’ll look at the maps again tomorrow and decide where we are going or if we’ll stay here.  South of here may get 1 to 3 inches of rain.