Day Ten – Thursday 24th
April
Monument
Valley
(Monument Valley)
Truth be
told I’m a massive fan of Western movies and getting to see the famous Monument
Valley bluffs that have been the back drop to films from The Searchers to the recent incarnation of Lone Ranger was just amazing. What I didn’t expect to see however
was people actually living in Monument Valley, if you look carefully at the
picture above you can just about make out the shades of houses in the distance.
There was a medical clinic, a Mormon church and even a high school, complete
with a green football field, which seemed ridiculously out of place in the arid
desert landscape surrounding it. The field was almost like a mirage, it just
didn’t seem real, as if I was imagining it.
(Monument Valley High School)
As you can
see the football field sticks out like a sore thumb, not just because its existence
seems preposterous in the desert but also because of the water troubles facing
the region, to keep a field like that green and alive as it is you would have
to use a great deal of water, which seems like a huge waste of a resource that
they can’t really afford to be wasting. Of course the pitch could be
artificial, thus requiring no water, and as we didn’t get out and inspect I’m
only speculating but as we drove past it did look natural, the shade of green
seemed to be that colour you only get from real grass.
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