• The creek water is clear; the Colorado is muddy. This is where they intermingle.
  • Love this rock here! - Temari 09
  • Four hours later, the water level rose and it was completely submerged. Very transitory.

Grand Canyon at the Tapeats Creek & Colorado River confluence looking east

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Sitting in Tapeats Creek at the confluence with the Colorado River. Just east of (above) Tapeats Rapids. There is no easy way to get to this place - you either hike from the North Rim of the Grand Canyon or raft for a few days.

"Night and day the river flows.
If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert.
Brave boatmen come, they go, they die, the voyage flows on forever. We are all canyoneers. We are all passengers on this little mossy ship, this delicate dory sailing round the sun that humans call the earth. Joy, shipmates, joy."
Edward Abbey, The Hidden Canyon -- A River Journey

"Whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting." Anonymous author from the Old West
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  1. Kratos May 41 months ago | reply

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called MAW (Mountains Around the World), and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  2. zPRIME 23 months ago | reply

    Simply wow ... absolutely stunning. I can't stop saying it!

  3. Max Hendel 13 months ago | reply

    Brilliantly captured !!!


  4. soniacraw 11 months ago | reply

    great angle

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