the wandering chick
...the Hoover Dam bridge
and the Lake Mead Recreation Area
Looking at Hoover Dam from the back
the arch bridge, highway 93
The completed Highway 93, "the bypass bridge," is seen here. Hoover Dam is visible from a pedestrian walkway across the bridge (below).
plaza to the pedestrian walkway
hoover dam
A pedestrian walkway was built so that the public could get a bird's eye view of Hoover Dam and Lake Mead behind it. At the base of the steps and ramp that takes you up to the bridge is this plaza in memorium to Mike O'Callaghan and Pat Tillman. Mike O'Callaghan was a Korean War veteran and former governor of Nevada. Pat Tillman was an Arizona football player killed in Afghanistan.
lake mead marina
lake mead marina
fish, lake mead marina
The Lake Mead marina, near Boulder City and Hoover Dam
fish, lake mead marina
The fish around the pier leading to the marina stay close to the water's surface in nopes of some free hand-outs.
fish, lake mead marina
fish, lake mead marina
fish, lake mead marina
fish, lake mead marina
fish, lake mead marina
fish, lake mead marina
This choir must be singing "...my lips are only for you."
the Lake Mead RV Village
Redhead duck
There are also several species of ducks in the water at the marina, including this Redhead. To the left is a goose whose name I'm not able to find. If anyone knows what it's called, please e-mail me.
unnamed goose

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The Lake Mead National Recreation Area RV Village with front-row views of the lake

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Willow Beach is part of the Lake Mead National Recreational Area and is located on the Arizona side of the Colorado River. It has picnic, RV and tent camping and boating facilities.
willow beach lake scene
willow beach
At approximately Mile Marker 27 on the Northshore Road within the Lake Mead Recreation Area is a sweet little picnic area with interesting redstone rock formations. Appropriately called Redstone Picnic Area, the kids (and adults) would enjoy hanging out among the boulders sculpted by eons of wind and rain.
This cool looking creature is called a Desert Monitor Lizard. He was around a foot long, not including his tail, and seemed to enjoy posing for us despite the stern expression.
Somewhere along the Northshore Road I looked up to find these burros high on a ridge looking down on me. Had to stop for a photo.
boat on shore