Day six

After a fairly early start a stop at the local supermarket to stock up on our junk food was appreciated.
Greg however was more concerned with providing his bus with card and pencils to make flags and posters to compete with Janet’s amazing Jack“son” and Daughts team spirit. (bit of bus jealousy we think!!)
Greg did admit however that his may not be the best but it is always number one!

After a short drive we arrived at Arches’ national park for a day full of fun packed work. Our mission was to find out how the arches where formed.
To help us find this information we spoke to Park Ranger Lori. Although there is no single way that arches are formed it is manly done by chemical and mechanical weathering.
Mechanical weathering is where water enters crakes in the rock, freezes and expands putting pressure on the rocks and enlarging the openings.
Chemical weathering is where water enters the Slick rock which gets stops by the Dewey bridge rock. The acid in the water erodes away the weaker sediment and the arch is formed

Picture

We also went to view a video on how the arches were formed. Silly Clare however forgot lights went off in movie theatre and fell over the stage lol! We think she should have got the silly badge.

Back on the buses and a short trip up a hill we went to see the north and south windows of Arches national park.
Boys will be boys and decided to climb on the rocks making it a competition, as who can get the highest. This then made them reinact the Lion King!

Picture-lion king

The group then split into two. The more adventurous students went to see the delicate arch which was a hard hike. Where as we decided to take a leisurely stroll to landscape arch.
The toilets where a pretty sight.(not!) Everyone thought the toilets where broken as they didn’t flush. But Faith reminded us they where only pit hole toilets so wouldn’t flush! (I would hate to be the person to clean them out haha!) But to be fair they smell better than most.

We started our relaxing walk and arrived at landscape arch. Was beautiful but slightly scary as previously in 1991, a huge chunk fell off. This means now you can no longer walk under it, and only observe from a distance.

While we where here we did the junior ranger task and had some lunch. We soon found a little friend (fury kind)
On the trip back the group got separated, with everyone a bit lost. Mary-Anne’s hat made a break for it, with Janet slow running after it, soon giving up for Vicky to get.

The next stop was back to the visitor centre to get another Junior Ranger badge. A very proud moment!

Soon back on the bus again to Moab and our hotel for everyone else to leave and do another Adventure tourism activity, while we write this sitting by the pool.
Good times!!!

Vicky, Sam and Clare