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Hoover Damn |
Day 46: Nov 13, 2013
Heard the coyotes last night..luckily before
sleep time.
Here is my review of the Boulder Beach campground
in Lake Mead National Recreation Area: In November on weekedays, not very busy
so that is a plus. Luckily we don’t need
to use their toilets (ancient and not appealing), no showers (not a problem for
us as we are self contained).
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Hoover Dam |
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This super big guy was busy working.... |
Most sites
are fairly well spaced but there isn’t too much plant life dividing site
(despite watering all plants). They have
quite a few pull throughs and some are paved. They have a fair amount of paved sites that
are not pull through. We have slow Verizon
coverage here for mifi and our cell phone works. For $10 it is a reasonable choice. There is walking along the beach and a bike
trail nearby, not far from Hoover Dam (5 miles?). Next visit we will do the biking.
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Willow Beach |
Today, our first stop was a visit to Hoover
Dam. Since David had taken the tour (the
good one prior to 9/11 when they took you down into the bowels of the works),
we elected to not do the tour. I was
also feeling a little less than great.
Hoover Dam was impressive to say the least. We walked out on the walkway over the dam.
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Colorado River at Willow Beach...picture Ed kayaking here... |
From there we got on the road (route 93 south)
and had only a vague idea of where we would end up. On a whim we decided to stop at Willow Beach,
a little 5 mile off shoot that led to a body of water. It was the Colorado River and south of Hoover
Dam.
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Campground is just below those two black dots in center |
A nice area actually with a
campground $35 that looked fairly new but we didn’t really need anything from
the campground and didn’t want to give away $35. There is a marina there and it is probably a
good place to kayak (take note Patty and Ed).
There is also a fish hatchery there as well which we elected to take a
look at (free). Apparently, they stock
the river each Friday (by the fishing dock) with 2,000 rainbow trout of
catchable size…so I guessing that the fisherfolk there are pretty happy if they
are there on Fridays. They also have in
the past provided the Native Americans with fish and restocked other parts of
the river. Endangered species are bred
and researched here as well. It was
interesting and there were LOTS of fish in long tanks.
On the road again and about time to make decision
as to where to stay the night. We
elected to pull off of the well travelled route 93 to take a side gravel road
and stay off from the road. Another RV
was there about ¼ mile away.
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