We opted to hike back across the creek to continue on our afternoon of hiking. We were soon past the fall color brush and back onto the big open sand areas.

I stayed near the creek to take a few more photos and had to catch up. In a very short time, I was quite a ways behind the group. You can see Andrew in the third photo down in the dune canyon.

I felt like I needed to include the fourth photo, just to show that we had to hike up lots of dunes too. There was no way to easily get to the tops.

Thanks to Emilie, our guide, we had snacks so we stopped to rest and refresh a bit in the last photo.