Yesterday, Thomas and I joined our friends, Catherine and Brian, to explore one of Georgia’s Natural Wonders – Providence Canyon. Actually, the canyon isn’t a natural wonder. It was created by erosion in the 1800s when farmers planted in the soft sand and clay without terraces.
I’ve been wanting to go there for a while because it’s an Earth Cache, which I recently heard about from Lisa. There are 17 in the state, and this is the first one we’ve logged. We’re adding some of the others to our list so we can check them out — or recheck them out for some that we’ve seen before we knew they were Earthcaches. I’m really amazed that Stone Mountain isn’t one.
The canyon is 150 feet deep and lined with white sand and red clay. It really looked like Sedona, Arizona. I loved looking at all of the texture and colors in the walls – red, white, yellow, purple, wavy, stacked, and drippy. The trail at the bottom of the canyon was very muddy with red clay. We liked crawling into the crevices where it was at least 10 degrees cooler, like a cave.
At the entrance is a park with a little flower garden. It was a warm, sunny day, and the flower fragrance was wonderful. We spent some time there photographing the azaleas, dogwoods, wisteria, and bees. We got our fill for the start of Spring.
As usual, I’ve posted our photos online:
- My Providence Canyon (40 photos)
- Thomas’ Providence Canyon (43 photos)
