Showing posts with label Bypass Bridge. Show all posts
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Saturday, May 8, 2010

A Tour Of Lake Mead and Hoover Dam

Alchemy the Meerkat and I decided to head out to Lake Mead and then to Hoover Dam to do a little sightseeing and along to way found some fascinating things and some beautiful wildlife too.
For only $29 you can take a helicopter tour of Lake Mead and the dam.
Alchemy said no thank you very much!
We're just leaving beautiful Boulder City and headed straight towards Lake Mead.
A beautiful day and a beautiful view!
Alchemy at the Marina. Because the water levels at the lake are so low the Marinas are forced to constantly keep moving.
Little Alchemy posing bravely high above the dam on the water side. Closest is the Arizona tower side and the further tower is the Nevada side. Both have clocks in the towers showing what time it is in either state.
This is showing just how low our water levels are at Lake Mead just on the other side of the dam.

A gondola ferrying workers high above the already high bridge. If these guys aren't paid very well, they should be.

A couple of incredible shots of the new Hoover Dam bypass bridge.

This is supposed to be completed sometime this year. Can't wait to drive across it and see how incredible a sight it must be from up there.

A bird of prey. Couldn't get a better shot of it to actually tell what kind of bird but he sure made a few of the other residents a little nervous. Alchemy included.

We saw many little Antelope Ground Squirrels here.
Keeping a watchful eye out for that bird and for any treats you might just have on you.
Little Alchemy was in heaven!
And a whole herd of Desert Big Horn Sheep too. These guys, (there was an entire herd of them) were just 50 feet off the main road. This guy kept his eye on me the entire time I was there while the rest of them grazed happily but nervously. Isn't he gorgeous!
Tomorrow little Alchemy visits the strip!