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That evening I went down to the beach at Cobo Bay to get some night time shots. Guernsey is an official 'dark sky' location and a good place to see the Milky Way. The group were playing with light effects, so I had a little go at that as well. For the sky pictures I kept my speed down to 30 seconds so that the stars did not appear as streaks. This did not appear to be as short a time needed for this and there is a little streaking.

We left Scenic Drive as the sun was starting to go down and hurried to a parking place just off Highway-24, so that we could walk to Panorama Point to see the sun set. There was a beautiful tree which deserved to get the centre of attention. The sunset was not over dramatic but gave some warm soft light which accentuated the red tones of the cliffs. Capitol Reef has some of the darkest skies in the US, so after we had had our evening meal we went back to the edge of the Park to look at the Milky Way.  Mule deer grazing by in Fruita