Saturday and Sunday we visited Hoover Dam. Saturday we did the driving thing, over the dam and walked back over it and around the displays. Sunday we did a Lake Mead boat tour of the dam and walked up to the freeway high bridge (When they built it they added a walkway on the dam side) . I was a little disappointed that they still had the internal tour shut down, showing the inner workings of the dam and power plant. It is all so huge it is hard to capture on camera!
When you look at the pictures of the lake you will see a whitish strip on the lake bank, the is the high water mark from 1983, it left a lot of calcium deposit behind!
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| Taken from the freeway high bridge |
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| Our tour boat |
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Dam, lake side, from the tour boat.
The things with the vertical dark lines are the water inlets to turn the generators,
four total, two on the Nevada side, two on the Arizona side.
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| Taa daa! We really were on the boat! |
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Entering the Black Canyon that leads to the dam.
I guess before the dam was built there was nasty rapids thru this canyon! |
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| Looking down the dam wall |
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| Starr sitting pretty next to one of the displays |
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| A closer view of the water intake towers |
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| One of the statues, I wondered out loud if there arms ever got tired, they didn't respond! |
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