A Boat and A Lake: Jumping in the Deep End Part 4

We just returned from our summer vacation - spending almost a week (6 days / 5 nights) exploring Lake Powell (Arizona & Utah) on a houseboat. While we have visited this part of the country before (and we love it!), it was our first experience on the lake and our first time in a houseboat. Each day this week I'll show you pictures from our trip - grouped into themes.

Today's theme: Hiking the Shores

We've always been drawn to the landscape of the U.S. desert southwest.

It seems other-worldly (to a couple of Floridians, at least!) and simultaneously invites and discourages exploration.

Everywhere you look there are signs of the immense power of wind and water in shaping the land.

Look at this series of rock "U"s that channel flash floods through the desert.

The red sandstone cliffs are constantly changing - steep faces developing caves, caves growing into arches...

Whether you focus in closely on a small section of rock fins...

...or look around at the massive boulders and balancing rock...

...or climb up a flake...

...to get a better view of a series of rock pools...

...or to get a panoramic shot of the lake itself...

Everything about this land speaks of the insignificance of man.

PS - Notice those storm clouds in the picture above? Consider it more foreshadowing... ;)

Tomorrow's theme will be our anchorages (and all this foreshadowing will be explained...)