Malad Gorge State Park - A fun place to visit

Blink your eyes and you will miss it! Malad Gorge State Park is between Bliss and Wendell. The Malad River is 11.5 miles long and is formed by the joining of the Big and Little Wood rivers near Gooding. The Malad Gorge is 2.5 long and is 250 feet deep. There are 6 viewpoints along the route; the last one being Woody's Cove.Looking up Malad Gorge from Viewpoint 2. The Malad Gorge falls and Devils Washbowl. Hmmm...I didn't know that the devil cleaned himself up.......why would he need a washbowl?

The falls as seen from above.
Peering down at the turbulent Malad River. The next picture is where the Malad River is diverted into a sluice to be funneled to a power generation plant midway down the canyon. Below the power plant the water is re-sluiced (is that a word?) and used to generate power as it enters the Snake River. Cool, huh?This is the top end of Woody's Cove. It is awesome to stand on the edge and look down. The next photo is looking west out Woody's Cove and out across the Hagerman Valley. Enjoy!!!

Box Canyon - One of those must see places!!

Tuesday, Marcia and I went exploring. We have wanted to hike Box Canyon for 2 years but just never could find the time. So ... we took the time and had a great experience. For those of you wanting to know, Box Canyon is 1/4 S of 3400 S on 1500 E in Gooding County. Here is a view from Google Earth (on GE the white boxes are pictures of the area).


At the bottom of the East end of the canyon (right in photo above) are two beautiful clear pools that flow from the bottom of the canyon wall.



The hike took us about 3 hours. It is just over 1 1/2 miles down to the end of Box canyon. The river running in the bottom is clear and beautiful. There is a trail from the canyon rim down to the river. There is a nice deck overlooking a beautiful waterfall. All in all ......... one gorgeous place. We were tired when we got home but enjoyed every minute of it.

The last photo is of the beautiful waterfall that is in the cusp of the river flowing out of the canyon. If you look at the first picture, this falls is located 2nd white dot from the left (just beyond the cusp).

A Day at Hogle Zoo

We had a wonderful day at the Hogle Zoo. We spent the day with Doris, Marcia's mother. It was a fun time and we quite enjoyed the visit. I had a concern that all of us might not return. (You know what they say ..... "All of the monkeys ain't in the zoo. There are some walking around with me and you!") Anyway we all were able to leave.

Here we see a marker introducing the zoo........




We are looking at the bears......ooops, maybe the bears are really looking at us.









Is this guy cool or what?? Did he fall into a vat of bleach?? The sign said this is not albino but a mutation where the alligator cannot produce melanin.


Here we see one of the two elephants in the zoo.


We found the original Big Bird.