Page, Arizona is nearly all national park-like…

This is a two-dayer, because I was too tired to prepare a blog yesterday.

Most of the area around Page is in the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area or the security zone around the Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell. Understandable given recent headlines; one consequence is that it’s a no-drone zone. Add pretty steady winds and the drones are grounded, anyway.

 On the way in from Las Vegas, I stopped off at Lee’s Ferry, A fishing zone in the southern part of the Glen Canyon system. It is a peaceful spot, with the Colorado River running through.

In some areas, the currents form small rapids:

 

Along the road there are some precariously balanced rock formations.

 

 

Nearby, we find the old and new Navajo Bridges;

 

 

 

Sigh. Like Lake Mead at the Hoover Dam, the water level in Lake Powell is very low.

 

 

 

You can see the low-water mark behind the beautiful Dam. Uh-oh.

 

 Upstream, the vast expanse of Lake Powell is a boater's paradise. This is a view of the Wahweep Marina from the overlook

 

 

 

 

 

 

Las Vegans are hoping for a water release from here to help raise Lake Mead’s level. After seeing this, I suspect Nevada will be under California-like water restrictions soon. The West needs some of those Winter storms we got in the 1980s. We will, of course, complain when we get them.

 

I do have lots of material for panoramas from these spots; when I get home I’ll have more time to process them. 

Off to the area around Monument Valley tomorrow morning. No federal restrictions on the drones over there. Only being careful not to annoy the Navajos. Fingers crossed...