TODAY WE DECIDED TO SHOW STANLEY TWO OF THE DAMS AND LAKES NEAR OUR HOUSE. HOOVER DAM IN NEVADA, DAVIS DAM IN ARIZONA, LAKE MEAD IN NEVADA AND LAKE MOHAVE IN ARIZONA.
THIS IS A PICTURE OF DAVIS DAM IN ARIZONA
THIS IS A PICTURE OF LAKE MOHAVE ARIZONA
A RARE TREAT TO BE ABLE TO SPOT LONG HORN SHEEP UP IN THE ROCK CLIFFS ABOVE AND SURROUNDING LAKE MOHAVE. THEY CAMAFLOUGE SO WELL INTO THEIR INVORIMENT.
HOOVER DAM AT 726.5 FEET TALL, IS ONE OF A SERIES OF DAMS BUILT TO PROVIDE FLOOD CONTROL, SILT CONTROL AND WATER STORAGE ALONG THE COLORADO RIVER. IT TOOK FOUR YEARS TO BUILD THE DAM, AND ANOTHER YEAR TO COMPLETE THE POWER PLANT AND APPURTENANT WORKS. BUILT IN THE BLACK CANYON AREA, THE DAM WAS ORIGINALLY KNOWN AS BOULDER DAM, HOWEVER IN 1947 TWELVE YEARS AFTER IT WAS COMPLETED IT WAS RENAMED HOOVER DAM FOR FORMER PRESIDENT HERBERT HOOVER WHO WAS THE 31ST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
LAKE MEAD IS THE LARGEST MAN MADE LAKE IN THE UNITED STATES. THE LAKE PROVIDES YEAR ROUND RECREATION TO OVER 9 MILLION VISITORS A YEAR AND HAS A SURFACE AREA OF ABOUT 247 SQUARE MILES WHEN FULL. IT TOOK 6.5 YEARS TO FILL LAKE MEAD
THIS IS A VIEW OF LAKE MEAD, FROM HOOVER DAM. THE WHITER RING SHOWS HOW LOW THE WATER IS DOWN FROM WHERE IT HAS BEEN IN THE PAST.
WE WALKED OUT ON ONE OF THE DOCKS IN A MARINA AT LAKE MEAD, BELOW HUNDREDS OF CARP WILL FOLLOW YOU IN HOPES THAT YOU WILL THROW THEM SOME FOOD. WE LET STANLEY THROW SOME BREAD DOWN TO THEM. CAN YOU SEE THEM WITH THEIR MOUTHS OPEN? STANLEY LOVED THIS, HE THOUGHT IT WAS SO FUN.
3 comments:
Blaise and Caiden want to know if you can fish there because they would "for sure" catch a fish!
I love how much detail you're putting in to Flat Stanley. Blaise isn't the only one learning a lot!
And I really like the fish picture. It doesn't quite seem real how many fish can pile in to one place.
NO, YOU CAN'T FISH FROM THE DOCKS, HOWEVER, IT IS A BLAST TO FEED THEM BREAD. IT'S SO FUNNY TO SEE THEM CLIMB ALL OVER EACH OTHER TO BE THE ONE TO GET THE FOOD, THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN HERE COMES A DUCK OR TWO AND THEY JUST WALK RIGHT OVER THE TOP OF THE FISH SO THEY CAN GET THE FOOD, IT IS CRAZY FUN.
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