Lake Need
On Saturday Joe and I decided to explore the Lake Mead. The National Recreation Area is huge and on the map it looks like a vast water system with so many narrows, bays, inlets and several marinas.
I have been hearing for several years about the drought and the dangerously low water level at the lake. Most recently this report came out. I thought the photo on the article was photoshopped. It can't really be that bad. After all, when we drive across the dam going to AZ you can see the water line, but there is still plenty of water up there.
Joe and I decided to explore the Lake and see what it was like. We started by driving up to the Valley of Fire and crossing over to the Overton Arm at the north end of Lake Mead. The map makes it look like a pretty decent lake, and if you look at the
Google Map shows docks and a decent water level. What we found was a lake in serious need of water or a renaming. Perhaps instead of Lake Mead it could be Crusty Dirt Mead, or maybe Don't Mess With Nature Mead. Here are the photos:
From where we are it is about 300 yards to the water.
You can see there are few fools who actually came down and launched their boats from here. Those are the trucks with trailers parked down there by the water.
This is looking off to the northwest. All the purple scrub brush is where water used to be recently, and beyond that you can see the dry lake bed. So much is gone.
This is looking southeast. The muddy sand piles used to be a chain of islands.
We walked all the way down to the water and were slightly encouraged by the inkling of life. These ducks were hanging out, but honestly I don't know what they were doing there. I can't imaging this being the best habitat around, what with it disappearing and all.
The spookiest part was the desolation. The map indicated that there was a ranger station, a store, a campground, a marina. What we found was a ghost town. Everything was shut down, not a soul around. There were old gas pumps that looked like they hadn't been used in ages. Even the people who had come to launch their boats weren't in the immediate area, which contributed to the abandoned feel. The worst part was the loooooong boat launch. We walked all the way down to the water and back up. It is a steep hill and I was breathing hard. I must have been about 300 yards long, but you can tell that at one time it used to be only 100 yards to the water. So surreal.
We decided to continue down North Shore Road and stop at various places on the way to see what else was happening at different coves. Stay tuned for part 2 of the saga.
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