ページからコロラド川ラフティングツアーに出発 1st Day: Grand Canyon Rafting River Trip! 7Days

2025/09/06 - 2025/09/12

コロラド川ラフティング7日間キャンプ : 7 Day Motorized Rafting Trip
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Day1-7 : グランドキャニオンラフティング　7日間
ページから約１時間のドライブでコロラド川のリーズフェリーへ。
ここからボート(電動ラフト)でコロラド川を180マイル下り、最終日の7日目の朝にヘリコプターとセスナを乗り継ぎラスベガスに着くまで digital detox!!です。
現地のツアー会社利用で28人のゲストの24人がアメリカ在住、そのうち22人が英語ネイティブでした。ここからは英語で書いていきます。

Day 1
Good morning!
Today, my special trip finally begins!!

6:30 AM
We woke up to my iPhone’s alarm.
I packed my bags and checked my room to make sure we hadn’t left anything behind.
“I haven’t left anything behind!“ I thought, but maybe I had left something special there.

7:00 AM
I checked out of the Hotel and headed to the neighboring Hotel: La Quinta where was our special tour‘s meeting point.
It was a cloudy morning!
My big bag was quite heavy because I had to take everything with me even stuffs that weren’t necessary for the river trip.

7:10 AM
Many groups of people were sitting down ,having breakfast and drinking coffee with their belongings that might be for the river trip.

7:30 AM
We boarded on the bus for Lee’s Ferry.
The bus was large and operated by the National Park Express.
It started to rain.
Yesterday we enjoyed both upper and lower Antelope Canyon under blue skies.
I thought how today’s Antelope Canyon tours went in the rain and how lucky we were.

8:00 AM
On the way to Lee’s Ferry, the bus stopped at Page Airport to pick up additional participants arriving on a small airplane from Las Vegas.
Two groups(two commercial trips ) were on the bus . Approximately 50 participants total.

8:30 AM
After a brief stop at a small grocery store , the bus headed south, passing through Antelope Pass , then north on Route 89A through Marble Canyon. Shortly after crossing the Navajo Bridge, we arrived in Lee’s Ferry where we boarded our boat :Motorized raft.

エリア ページ(アメリカ)

• 旅行の満足度: 5.0
• 観光: 5.0
• ホテル: 4.5

• 一人あたり費用: 50万円 - 100万円
• 旅行の手配内容: その他

9:30AM
This is our boats.
We met our tour guides here and listened some explanations about packing and other things from our tour reader B.
I was relieved that his English was easy to listen and understand for me.

10:00 AM
Our two raft boats started down the Colorado river, from Mile0 : Lees Ferry.

11:00 AM Navajo Bridge Mile4.5
The clouds have cleared and the blue sky feels great.
Geology note : Nabajo Bridge spans the Kaibab Formation, with Toroweap Formation in the foreground and the Mesozoic rocks of the Vermilion Cliffs in the background.

12:30 Sandbar Mile9
We landed here.

Geology note : Hermit Formation
Same as Red rocks in Sedona.

12:30-13:30 Lunch time

After washing our hands thoroughly,
Sandwiches and chips for Lunch. It was delicious.

14:00 Brief stop. Mile16
Native American’s mural.

14:15 around Hot Na Na Wash Mile16
Geology note : Spai Groups

House Rock Rapids(Mile17) right after here was fun.

14:30 Desert Bighorn Sheep 　　Around 18 mile Wash
https://www.nps.gov/colm/learn/nature/desert-bighorn.htm
Quoted from this site：Unlike their Rocky Mountain bighorn cousins, desert bighorn have adapted to hot, dry climates. They have longer legs, lighter coats, and smaller bodies.Their diet of shrubs, grasses, brome, fescue, clover phlox, and cinquefoil supplies a good portion of their water needs.

After enjoying the North Canyon Rapids(Mile21), we arrived at today's campsite.

17:00 Campsite: Lone Cedar Mile23

The sun is already setting so the campsite is in the shade.

The setting sun is shining on the eastern rock face on the upstream side, which is beautiful.

18:15 Dinner time
Roast Salmon: This salmon was the best I’ve ever had.

The end of 1st day.

19:30-20:00 Ringtail Cat appeared in our camp site!
I heard “Chi chi chi” I thought it was a bird but a creature that had a big tail.
I wondered if it was safe for me.
Many other people saw it and it didn’t hurt us.

Good night!