I'm not sure if it's the dust here or if the air everywhere is just getting fuzzier. I'm trying some new setting on the camera (later this week we'll see the results) to see if I can get the detail off in the distance better.

This is also exciting - I'm working on doing some panorama shots. Getting some new software that will put together panoramas, so as soon as I get time to work on it we'll see how that turns out.

This is another vista from the view points in the park. The views here are really hard to put into words, so I'll just let the pictures speak for themselves.

There was a placard here that explianed how the pillars are formed. The white layer on top is composed of a harder type of sandstone and so resists erosion, which the lower softer sandstone washs away, thus forming the pillars. This is a little clearer in the next shot.

A closer view of the pillars.

Another interesting fact from the placard was that a long, long time ago, this was all a great flat plain. None of this existed and then over millions of years it gradually eroded and this is the result.

Here's another vista shot that really shows how the landscape has changed. It's hard to picture this as a huge flat plain that then turned into this intriguing landscape.