The Tonto National Park really took me by surprise. Randy said we were going to see a natural bridge, whatever that means. I wasn't expecting to see waterfalls and running streams in the middle of the desert. The main attraction is the Natural Bridge which looks like a gigantic hole! And not the one in my head, but a real one! Water falls from the top as show in the pictures and sends a spray everywhere when it hits the rocks below. There is a large pool at the entrance. The funny thing is, you don't get the scale of how big this "cave" is. If you look carefully you can see some people climbing on the walls in the last row of pictures. That's really when it hit me just how large this opening is; at least 200 ft. You have to judge your timing with the spray of the water. When the wind catches the flow it goes everywhere. So you wait for calm moment then dash on in. Of course, this is Arizona so getting splashed with cool water really wasn't a bad thing.

I'm pretty sure Randy was fully expecting to find me wading in the pool at the entrance. This place really was amazing and I don't think you can get the true sense of it from the pictures.

Taken with Sony F828.