Lake Powell,Utah

 

 

 

 

Glen Canyon Dam

 

If it was not for Glen Canyon Dam, there would be no lake Powell.

Construction of the 587 foot concrete dam began in 1956.

In 1958 some 24 square miles of Navajo tribal land were exchanged for a larger tract in Utah.  Making the room needed for the back-up water that formed Lake Powell.

It took seven years to construct this massive dam.

The Glen Canyon Bridge over the dam and Colorado River is 700 feet above the water. Making this the second-highest, steel-arched bridge in the world.

Located on the Utah, Arizona border the dam was completed in 1963.

Lake Powell began to fill with back water and took 17 years to fill to capacity. The lake was drawing crowds well before it was full.

Lake Powell is the 2^nd largest reservoir in North America. It is 186 miles long with 2000 miles of shoreline, 96 side canyons, hundreds of inlets, and cove shelters with Indian ruins. All waiting for you to explore.

Lake Powell is a pristine house boat destination. Boats of all kinds and sizes can be rented. Manny people from the surrounding states bring their own boats to Lake Powell to play in sun.  Lake Powell offers an adventure for everyone.

It is a stocked lake for fishing with large mouth bass, rainbow trout, and walleye pike to name a few. This year the water level is up 53 feet making it bigger and more enjoyable than it has been in many drought years. This has made new caves and canyons to investigate.  Fishing is said to be much improved as well.

Lake Powell is like no other place.  Picture a clear day, blue sky, sunshine, boats zipping over glossy green water against a back drop of glowing red sand stone cliffs. With water so clear it reflects the cliffs on the water so you are unable to tell where the cliffs end and the water begin.

With no beachfront hotels, restaurants, or shops once you leave the marina, this is a place to relinquish your stress and to rejuvenate your perceptions,

Be sure to stop at the Glen Canyon Dam Visitors Center. See what an engineering marvel this dam is. Take a guided tour to see just how the dam works and how thick the concrete walls have to be to hold back this much water.  Many artists take the time to do beautiful oil paintings of this beautiful area.

 

 

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Golden Spike National Historic Site

On may 10, 1869 officials of the centeral Pacific Railroad and Union Pacific Railroad met here to drive four symbolic spikes, two of which were made of gold.

Celebrating the completion of the first transcontinental railroad.

 The first line that brought the East and West togeather by rail.

One of the most inportant occomplishments of the 19th century.

This started a new era of transportation.

Ending the need for Pony Express and many of the wagon trains that carried the pioneers west.

This historical site has a visitors center which is open year-round. There is much history in the movies, films,displays, museum, and book store.

Each year on may 10 the event is re-enacted with people dressed in period clothing.  There are two working replicas of the 1869 steam locomotive Jupitar and 119 that are in operation.

Located 32 miles morhtwest of Brigham City, Utah

 

 

San Diego Zoo has a new baby

 

The San Diego zoo has a new panda bear.  This zoo is the first zoo to start breeding panda bears.  They are from China and owned by China.  We are very lucky to have a zoo close enough to see these rare babies.

It is a Chinese tradition to wait 100 days before giving  the baby a name.

The San Diego zoo, by popular vote, has chosen Su Lin, for a sweet little girl, this name is approite.

Su Lin in Chinese means "a little bit of something very cute." She is still to young to be on public display.

She has trouble standing and has not yet left her den.  mother will decide when she is ready to venture out of the den.  When that happens she will be ready for public display.

Su Lin is a 10 pound ball of fur now. From birth at 3 to 5 ounces she is growing just right.

Panda bears are born with out fur, cannot see or hear. In 7 days they get their black and white markings.

Eyes open and they can hear in 44 days. By 13 months they begin to eat bamboo and will be weaned at 15 months.

The first panda allowed to come to the USA was iinn 1936. Her name was also Su Lin.

She is the 3rd panda born at the San Diego Zoo.

The San Diego Zoo is located in the Balboa Park.

There gift shops that sell the stuff toys of the panda bears, picture books, and movies.

Close by there are many hotels where you can stay.  They have discount tickets to the zoo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Antelope Island, Utah

Part of the Great Salt Lake


Rich with scenic beauty and natural features Antelope Island is a perfect place to get close to the Great Salt Lake.
The largest of the ten islands on the Great Salt Lake, it can be reached by boat or driving on a causeway.
White sand beaches, entices swimmers and picnickers. Swimming is popular, in this salty water where you are so buoyant that you float like a cork. The water is very salty at up to 26% but most of the time it is around 13%. Ten times more salty than the ocean. Only the Dead Sea has more salt content than the Great Salt Lake.
Fresh water showers are there to use so you can wash off the salt and change clothes.
The other sports are even more popular, like hiking, biking, and kayaking.
Special motor boats or sail boats are very popular here as well. With thousands of miles of shoreline, there is enough room for everyone.
Many animals and birds live there year-round on the 2800 acre island. Bob cats, coyotes, elk and the famous American Buffalo. The first bison were introduced to the island in 1893. The herd now numbers 600 managed animals. During the annual bison roundup in November of every year, visitors can get a close up look at all 600 bison. They are inspected by a vet, given shots, and culled for sale and the rest are returned to their home on the island.
The Great Salt Lake is a remnant of Lake Bonneville which covered 20,000 square miles of land which at that time was Utah, Nevada, and Idaho some 30,000 years ago.
Now just 75 miles long and 35 miles wide. Depth of 13 to 20 feet.
The Great Salt Lake has fresh water running into it with 4 rivers and many streams. The lake has no outlet so there is just continual evaporation.
Several businesses extract salt and other chemicals from the lake. One is Morton Salt Company. That is where your table salt comes from.
Antelope Island State Park is 7 miles west of I-15 exit 335 near Layton, Utah

It has an Elusive Monster

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Bear Lake

It has an Elusive Monster.

Bear Lake is called the Caribbean of the Rockies for its intense blue water. It is the most striking of all lake colors. No one can agree on just what, that color is. Turquoise or cobalt blue, anything, but just plain blue.
The blue color is due to the light reflecting off the limestone particles, suspended in the water. Bear Lake is in northeast Utah, straddling the Utah, Idaho borders.
Bear Lake was named by early trappers who found the valley full of black bear.
It was a hunting and meeting place for the Native American tribes of the Shoshone, Bannock and the Ute.
In the early 1800’s mountain men like Jim Bridger, John C. Fremont and Jeddah Smith trapped for furs here.
It was settled by Mormon’s in 1860.
The elevation of Bear Lake is 5923 feet. It is 20 miles long and 8 miles wide with a depth of 208 feet.
It is rumored to have an elusive “Bear Lake Monster” It has never been captured.
This is the water sports paradise. Boating, sailing, jet skiing, and swimming.
The fishermen love it here. Bear Lake has 4 species of fish that can not be found anywhere else in the world.
Bonneville Cisco is the most well known.
In the winter the ice fishing is most popular. The Cisco comes close to the shoreline to spawn in mid-January. They can be dip-netted through a hole cut in the ice.
With 48 miles of shoreline this lake sees a lot of people enjoying themselves, winter and summer.


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The Secrets of Lake Powell

Glen Canyon Dam

If it was not for Glen Canyon Dam, there would be no lake Powell.
Construction of the 587 foot concrete dam began in 1956.
In 1958 some 24 square miles of Navajo tribal land were exchanged for a larger tract in Utah. Making the room needed for the back-up water that formed Lake Powell.
It took seven years to construct this massive dam.
The Glen Canyon Bridge over the dam and Colorado River is 700 feet above the water. Making this the second-highest, steel-arched bridge in the world.
Located on the Utah, Arizona border the dam was completed in 1963.
Lake Powell began to fill with back water and took 17 years to fill to capacity. The lake was drawing crowds well before it was full.
Lake Powell is the 2nd largest reservoir in North America. It is 186 miles long with 2000 miles of shoreline, 96 side canyons, hundreds of inlets, and cove shelters with Indian ruins. All waiting for you to explore.
Lake Powell is a pristine house boat destination. Boats of all kinds and sizes can be rented. Manny people from the surrounding states bring their own boats to Lake Powell to play in sun. Lake Powell offers an adventure for everyone.
It is a stocked lake for fishing with large mouth bass, rainbow trout, and walleye pike to name a few. This year the water level is up 53 feet making it bigger and more enjoyable than it has been in many drought years. This has made new caves and canyons to investigate. Fishing is said to be much improved as well.
Lake Powell is like no other place. Picture a clear day, blue sky, sunshine, boats zipping over glossy green water against a back drop of glowing red sand stone cliffs. With water so clear it reflects the cliffs on the water so you are unable to tell where the cliffs end and the water begin.
With no beachfront hotels, restaurants, or shops once you leave the marina, this is a place relinquish your stress and to rejuvenate your perceptions,
Be sure to stop at the Glen Canyon Dam Visitors Center. See what an engineering marvel this dam is. Take a guided tour to see just how the dam works and how thick the concrete walls have to be to hold back this much water.

A Wonder of the World

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But you cannot see it.
Rainbow Bridge National Monument is a natural bridge, but so inaccessible that only hikers and boaters have been able to view it.
Tucked away, among rugged, isolated canyons, at the base of the Navajo Mountains in Utah.
Rainbow Bridge was known for centuries to the Native Americans who lived around that area. They held the bridge sacred, and still do today.
Not until 1909 was the existence publicized to the outside world, by white men who traveled that way on the Colorado River. Teddy Roosevelt and Zane Grey were some of the first visitors to the area. Getting there was a growling trek, taking several days of floating on the Colorado River. That was the easy part. Next was a 7-mile hike up a rugged and rocky canyon to get there.
By early 1950 with all of the talk about this new and beautiful national wonder, people were traveling there by jet boat. It was certainly faster but the remaining hike still took 3 days.
When Glenn Canyon Dam was made and the backwater, or Lake Powell, filled up it made Rainbow Bridge National Monument more accessible.
Boaters can now get there by taking a 50 mile ride on the beautiful and scenic Lake Powell. The hike has now been shortened to ½ mile on a moderate trail. The only other way to see this natural wonder is a 14 mile hike.
Founded as a National Monument, this wonder of the world is a natural bridge of sandstone. Carved out by years of erosion. Higher than the nations capital building, about the same size as the Statute of Liberty. It is the largest natural bridge in the world. It stands 290 feet tall and a span of 275 feet across. It is 42 feet thick.
Today most people rent a boat or take a tour from the boat docks at Wahweep, Bullfrog, or Halls Crossing. For those more adventurous there is the hiking trail.
If you are hiking to Rainbow Bridge National Monument, a permit is required to cross Indian land.


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