Lake Need Part 2

After the post-apocalyptic wasteland that was Overton Beach, we continued on down the road and stopped at a couple place on the west side of the road (land side, no lake) to see what it was like. There were some nice picnic areas and a really cool red rock formations. Then we got down to Callville Bay.

There was actually water there, and boats, and people. BUT, you can see how high the water used to be.

In this photo we are way up at the top of the boat ramp at the store/restaurant. See the white rocks in the foreground? That is how high the water used to be. All of those cars would be under at the bottom of the lake.

This view is looking off to the northwest. You can see all the sad dried up lake land. At least there is enough water left to have proper marina where you can rent a house boat.

We went down to explore the boat options and were surprised to see that they had 65' house boats for rent. We were intrigued and checked them out. One has a jacuzzi on it and all of them had water slides. I want to rent a house boat and bum around the lake, but I can't imagine there are enough deep parts that we can get to. And wouldn't you be worried that if you slid down the water slide you'd whack into the bottom or some rocks?

These final sad photos from Callville Bay are taken looking at the west end of the bay. If you didn't know this was taken at Lake Mead you could mistake this for just a regular old Nevada desert scene.

So Callville Bay was bittersweet. You could see the dramatic change in water levels, but at the same time there still seems to be plenty of water left for general recreation. In the boat rental shop they had a graph posted with the water level info. This website shows the info. You can see the current level is almost as low as 1965. They say this is one of the wort droughts on record. If it follows the same pattern as '65 then we are due for an upswing. Let's hope.