Day 2 - Chinle Wash Layover

Due to low water, could not get to the mouth of Chinle Wash to camp the first night. The flash from two nights previous had left Chinle running high enough to create the color mix captured in the below photo. Camped on the opposite side just downstream from the outlet. In the morning, paddled about a quarter mile downstream to a nice layover campsite. Rest of the day spent day-hiking and scenery watching. After the day hikes. How this lizard lived long enough to grow over a foot in length mystified me. So curious that he was actually underfoot occasionally. Would watch whatever I was doing for hours on end. The San Juan enters into the upper narrows one hundred yards downstream from camp.
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