The pictures in parts 1 – 5 were all taken by a Canon Power Shot A1100 IS point and shoot 12 mp digital camera. Since water can make it useless, I was careful to put it away in the ammo box when rapids were coming up. For those times I brought along a waterproof Minolta Weathermatic Dual 35 AF camera. I took three 24 exp. rolls in it, yielding about 75 images. The following pictures were taken with it and put on a CD in the processing. Although the camera has automatic focus and exposure, with a telephoto option, I was a little disappointed in the images.
Looking back, I am sorry that I did not search ebay for a waterproof digital camera. There are several for around $100.
The following pictures capture some of the excitement of gong down the rapids.
Looking upstream at a major rapid. Our companion boat is barely visible just entering the rapid in its center.
Our companion boat is coming down the rapid our lead boat just negotiated. Ours has pulled off to the side in an eddy. Many rapids were rougher than this one.
Vasey’s Paradise falls, to me the most spectacular falls on the trip.
We are just a few feet from the initial dropoff of this rapid. Some rapids took as little as 30 seconds to go down; others took up to two minutes in the turbulent water. This was a longer one.
Here turquoise colored water from the Little Colorado River is flowing into the Colorado. Our group hiked up the Little Colorado for going down chutes between rocks.
Looking downstream in the riffle where we, and a lot of others, floated down the stream. A group of nudists also was there, but appropriately covered. 
I am coming through the chute. It is bit shallow there and one trends to drag their keel!
Our group is floating down the river on the way back to the boat which was tied up on the bank of the Colorado.
Here is a private party we passed. Powered only by oars, it takes them about 16 days to reach the first takeout point at Diamond Creek. This party has two kayaks with them. For one 24 hour period we saw no other rafters, but usually we saw two or three a day.
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