Contessa on the road: Day 5 August 27, 2008 Dead Horse Point

HOT HOT HOT!! What a night, it was not a good sleeping night. We had to run the A/C the entire night and a small storm came through about 4:00 am to cool things down a bit. The morning was warm but oh so beautiful. After a light breakfast, Ed and I, George and Bev took a ride up to Dead Horse Point. There are two legends to Dead Horse Point, many years ago horses were brought to the area and corralled and only the best horses were taken from the herd . The other legend is horses were there and saw the river and jumped to get to the water which is so far down they were all killed. What is true and what is not, makes for a story The colors of the mountains are totally awesome. Evaporation ponds made for some great pictures also.
These ponds are used for the production of potash which is a mineral used in fertilizer among other things. The potash starts out underground. Water is pumped down in to the ground where the potash is and it mixes with the potash forming a slurry which is pumped back out of the ground into the ponds where the water evaporates leaving the potash to be scooped up and hauled away. The water is just a vehicle to move the potash from underground to the ponds.

A view from the top!

Just loved this picture

Maureen and Ed

The rest of our group arrived today and was great having everyone here, except for our trail boss and wife who will not be able to join us until next week. Butch and Betty, WE MISS YOU!! We had a pot luck of light food and made some plans for the rest of the week.
Today was my birthday and good friends Bev and Pat had a cake made for the festivities and I so appreciate the kind gesture. Ed was very generous with white gold diamond earrings that are gorgeous. It was a great day with great friends ………

Tomorrow we are going to Canyonland National Park, back to Dead Horse Point for those that did not see it today and good grief, end the day on a Hummer Ride over the rocks….

George and Bev, great friends!