Fisher Towers

Highway 128 is incredibly scenic. When I first drove this road, in 1978 or 1979, part of it wasn't even paved. Now it is, but it's still very quiet. It follows the Colorado River for over 30 miles. In this shot Fisher Towers is in the center distance.

The lizards are back in their element! After weeks in the rainforest, then another gig two miles above sea level, our saurian friends have returned to their natural habitat...the desert. They dig Fisher Towers.

Blow up this pic and look in the center, at the top of the rock formations, and you'll see what appears to be a double beaked gargoyle...or maybe he has a single beak and is extending his arms, or wings, or whatever gargoyles have. I have been fascinated by this rock pattern for over 30 years.

Here's a good shot of Fisher Towers, taken from the end of the road. There's a campground here if anyone wants to spend the night at the scene.

This pic was taken from my deck at the Castle Valley B&B. Not bad! The valley is entirely surrounded by red rock formations like this one.

I'm currently chilling at an isolated yet luxurious B&B in Castle Valley, a shangri-la about 17 miles east of Moab. No cell, no TV, sketchy internet, delicious food, hot tub, hammocks. Roughing it in style with the Euros! Mais oui, I'm thinking in Francais whenever possible as my neighbors are French. Most of the other people here are German...naturally the French and Germans communicate in English. On the way here I visited Fisher Towers, a rock formation that has always intrigued me since my first visit here in the late 1970s. It's a surreal spot, a couple miles off scenic highway 128 on a dirt road.