Tequila Sunrise

Sunrise at the Mexican Hat formation with the Mexican Blanket in the lower right. Taken just outside the town of Mexican Hat, Utah.

 

This geologic oddity gets it name because it looks just like a man wearing a sombrero. It is a giant hoodoo rising next to the San Juan River near the small town of Mexican Hat, named after the rock. You can see it well while driving by on Highway 163, but it's worth a stop for better views of the formation and the river below.

 

After shooting the Milky Way all night, its tough to pass up on the sunrise being just a couple of hours later, so I usually try and stay up long enough to see if its gonna be worth the time. Having passed by this stop some ten times in the middle of the day over the last three years, (which makes for a lackluster photo), but this time I was on my way back from shooting and decided to wait here to see what the sky would yield. The past couple of days had been plague by smoke from the Brian's Head fire and several others in the area so I think some of this sky color is from smoke. ;-/

 

 

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