Following the Ardèche River

The day after visiting the Pont D'Arc Caverne, we returned to the stone bridge and then followed the road up to the ridge of the gorge, following the river and stopping at many of the overlooks. I'll let most of the pictures speak for themselves...

passing Pont D'Arc again

the guardrails in the upper right corner show where the road is headed and what the drop-off looks like 

threatening to throw Mimi over the cliff 

the idea of guardrails doesn't always exist

We are climbing...that's the Ardèche below us and Lauryne daring the wind to blow her over... 

Several goats ran by and then this fellow showed up and did some posing before following the others into the woods.

There were quite a few redbud trees along the road, but we went past them too quickly for a photo. 

Here's a great example of a river's oxbow formation.

 the cliff rock is itching to create caves

 stone steps made climbing to this overlook a lot easier

time to move on

We were heading to Lyon next...