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MDKMDK
Feb 26, 2018Explorer
When we passed through there, we didn't know they HAD condors. :S
However, on our first trip to the Grand Canyon SR, we were walking the rim trail and happened to overhear a Ranger giving a talk about them to a small crowd. Said they were in the canyon, but fairly elusive and hard to spot. A few seconds later, one flew right up over the rim near where we were standing, but I didn't have time to react and get a picture, I was so surprised by it. Everyone was ooohing and ahhhing as it circled near us over the canyon a few times and then it flew off into the bowels of the canyon, slowly disappearing into the haze.
I did get some shots of a group of elk does walking past us farther along the rim trail that same day. We were all alone on a section of trail and stopped to grab a sip of water, and they walked right past us like we weren't even there. They gave us a quick look, and then just walked over to the edge of the canyon rim, and then disappeared over the edge.
However, on our first trip to the Grand Canyon SR, we were walking the rim trail and happened to overhear a Ranger giving a talk about them to a small crowd. Said they were in the canyon, but fairly elusive and hard to spot. A few seconds later, one flew right up over the rim near where we were standing, but I didn't have time to react and get a picture, I was so surprised by it. Everyone was ooohing and ahhhing as it circled near us over the canyon a few times and then it flew off into the bowels of the canyon, slowly disappearing into the haze.
I did get some shots of a group of elk does walking past us farther along the rim trail that same day. We were all alone on a section of trail and stopped to grab a sip of water, and they walked right past us like we weren't even there. They gave us a quick look, and then just walked over to the edge of the canyon rim, and then disappeared over the edge.
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