A couple weeks ago Em and I decided to get in the truck and head for the far reaches of Lake Mead. We have explored the nearer side of the lake for years now but wanted to explore the inlet end of the lake and took a weekend in late October and decided to go check it out and say we have seen it it all. There is a little, remote marina about 80 miles from Las Vegas called Temple Bar that we headed out for and stayed the night in their little motel. It was so nice and peaceful out there and the lake is awesome in the fall. NO wind all weekend. We went as far as we could go towards the Grand Canyon but got stopped about 40miles short due to the low water. It is really cool where the cold water form the Colorado and Grand Canyon meet the warm lake water...it swirls and dives down causing a weird ripple of chop where they collide. It was neat to watch the water as it swirled and moved down beneath the warm lake water. It looked like clouds. You could really feel the difference between the two water temperatures. The lake was still at 70 degrees and the brown water felt much cooler. It always amazes me how places like this are only a little drive from Vegas and 19 out of 20 people here will know nothing about it if you asked them. We love exploring around Vegas! We covered a good 150 miles of lake that weekend and burned at least 50 gallons of fuel, (ouch, ya you do the math) but it was a good send off for summer. This is the Vegas Lifestyle!
50+ miles of crowded highways!
Luxury Accomadations!
Crowded Valet Only Parking!.... ok, ya get it? Its sarcasm.
The two waters meet here. If the water was higher we could go another 60+ miles.
Cool ehh!
Definatly camping next time. Probably 20 miles from anyone!
Chasin Ducks! They look funny when they run on water.
The Temple of Temple Bar
The Stats. Although I didn't see even a 2mph gust!
Emilee is my good trailer backer girl now!!! It took some practice :) but she learned from the best!
The morning water was a bit rough...
And stayed rough throughout the day! (about 50 miles from last shot)
Echo Bay Marina for Gas and Grub...somebody is excited! Yes, the water is that low...where we are walking should be under water, that's the ramp!
That's right, we are braking the law! (no 3rd person spotter) but how can you resist water like this?
Someone is getting better!
Ahhh.. may camp here next time!
Scenery.
I love these weekends...we're gonna miss summer!
