Lake Mead and Hoover Dam

9/27 After a brunch at Dunkin' Doughnuts we set out to explore a little bit. Ten years ago, Becky and I came out here on our honeymoon. We were joined by Richie and Tara Law and well as the saying goes there.."This one time in Las Vegas...."
Anyhow Becky and I decided to drive down to Phoenix. Richie and Tara also rented a car and we all drove down to see Hoover Dam. When we were here last, they were working on the construction of the new bridge across the gorge so that traffic would not need to be routed over the dam. Tourist can still drive down to the dam and across it to the Arizona side. So we took some dam pictures and went to the dam store.

Ten years ago. Still have the woman and the t-shirt.

 This is a picture of Las Vegas Bay. The water used to come all the way up to where we were. At the end of the bay was a large marina that was left high and dry as the water level went down. In several areas, roads were lengthened and boat ramps rebuilt to get down to the lower water levels.

 When we stopped to park in the parking garage, we were told that we could not because we had the dog in the car with us and we were not allowed to take the dog onto the dam. We were told we had to park across the dam at another parking lot. At this parking lot all the handicap parking spaces are at the far end and they were not covered as the parking garage. This meant that if we left the dog in the car that she would be even hotter than if she was in the shade in the parking garage.
At the other parking lot, I found a covered spot, not labeled handicapped (fortunately they don't charge handicap the ten bucks to park). I got Iris out and walked her all over the dam and no one said a word to me. We just pretended that she was my service dog.

The spillway was high and dry.

Patrick straddles the Arizona/Nevada line. There used to be a large line painted across the road with it labeled but now all there is left is this plaque.

We drove across the bridge and back but the walls were so high that we couldn't see anything. On the there side of the concrete is a walkway for people to walk out on the bridge and take pictures of the dam. There was an long ramp up from a parking lot.

A Lake Mead marina. Lots of boats and people out on the water but the water has an algae in it and the park service was telling people to stay out of the water.