Blanche and Lucy have their friend Luey (she belongs to our friends Co & Flo) with them for this photo as we went up to the Sedona Airport for a view of the valley. We all picked up sandwiches on the way and had lunch up here and took lots of photos of the red rock formations from this great vantage point.
You can see Coffee Pot Rock to the right of this rock formation.
This is Courthouse Butte and Cathedral Rock
We all loved sitting on the many rock seats to enjoy the beauty of the vistas that we could see from the Sedona Airport - this is where many people come to watch the sunset over the Sedona Red Rocks every evening.
The beauty of Sedona is catchy... even Cheryl is taking photos from this vantage point where you can see so many beautiful rock formations.
More views from the Airport vista - this is called Chimney Rock - Cheryl took this photo.
Any outing with our dogs is not complete till we find a Dog Park for them to romp in.... and Sedona was no different... so we found a beautiful Dog Park here that had a great view of the red rocks and lots of dogs for the girls to play with.
Lucy loves the big dogs and had fun playing with Bailey - a Golden Doodle (cross between a Golden Retriever and a standard Poodle) - he reminded Lucy of her friends the big poodle mixes at SMR.
We had to leave the Dog park to discover more great places in Sedona - so Blanche said goodbye to her new friend 'Bailey'.
As we drove around Sedona we could find many 'turn-offs' where we could stop to take photos of the beautiful red rock vistas - off in the distance you can see Chathedral Rock - and yes that's me in the yellow shirt taking a pic...
This is what you first see when you walk through the entrance to Red Rock State Park - a beautiful vista of Cathedral Rock and a wide open meadow... see if you can see the small person on the bottom left... Flo and her dog Luey walking ahead of us all...
Co took this great pic of Blanche, Lucy, Cheryl & I with Chimney Rock behind us. Red Rock State Park in Sedona is one of the best places for people with dogs, or kids - they love the hiking and swiming in the cool water.
Blanche and Lucy loved swimming in the river in Red Rock - in fact Blanche had no problem doing the dog paddle when she went over her head... Lucy not so much....Since the temps were over 80degrees the water felt nice and cool for them.
As we took the dogs for a long hike through the Park - they climbed over rocks, and ran in the water and through the red dirt....which they loved. And we saw all sorts of things left behind by other hikers - in the way of messages and artwork.
As we hiked along the paths - we saw tons of little piles of rocks - called Carins - landmarks left by visitors who have also taken the same route... they were everywhere and just filled the park on the ground, in the trees, on the shore and even on other rocks.... we were fascinated by them and how many there were.
Flo and I decided that we should also leave a couple of our own Carin landmarks here in Red Rock State Park to say that we were there. So we crossed the river to the opposite shore and went to work piling up our little rocks as Co snapped our photos from the opposite shore, and Cheryl and the dogs watched us.
Flo & I rested after we built our Carins and Co took photos from the shore across the river.
I was barefoot and Flo had sneakers so as we crossed back over the river - Flo lent me a helping hand.
After we built our little Carin landmarks - we left them on the big red rock slab for others to find. Flo and I crossed back over the river to where everyone was waiting. At one point I thought for sure I was going to slip into the river....
These are our own - finished little 'Carins' - our own little 'landmarks' to show that we were here at Red Rock State Park in Sedona, Az.
If you want to know more about Carins go to Google.com and type in carin or rock piles.
Here's what the Wikipedia encyclopedia has to say about carins or these stone structures:
A cairn (from càrn in Scottish Gaelic, carnedd in Welsh, karn or carn in Cornish, carn in Irish) is a man-made pile of stones. Cairns are found all over the world in uplands, on moorland, on mountaintops, near waterways and on sea cliffs, and also in barren desert and tundra areas. They vary in size from small stone markers to entire artificial hills, and in complexity from loose, conical rock piles to delicately balanced sculptures and elaborate feats of megalithic engineering. Cairns may be painted or otherwise decorated, e.g. for increased visibility or for religious reasons.
In modern times, cairns are often erected as landmarks, a use they have had since ancient times. Since prehistory, they have also been built as sepulchral monuments, or used for defensive, hunting, ceremonial, astronomical and other purposes.
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