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Canyon de Santa Elena

Canyon walls 1,200 feet high, above the Rio Grande! With the river desparately dry from drought and upstream diversion for irrigation, one can walk along the riverside and feel completely dwarfed by the massive walls of rock towering on either side. Truly humbling.
Santa Elena Canyon
Santa Elena Canyon
Photographer gets in the way!
Photographer gets in the way!
Moon between the canyons
Moon between the canyons
Inside the canyons
Inside the canyons
tamarisk
tamarisk
the Canyons
the Canyons
Note the folks in the foreground...
Note the folks in the foreground...
can you believe...
can you believe...
this is the mighty Rio Grande?
this is the mighty Rio Grande?
who's in charge?
who's in charge?