Without having said what this was an image of, it’s difficult to know. It could just as easily be a shot of some metamorphosed rock or perhaps the bark of a tree.
Tag Archives: hoover dam I spotted this particular specimen having left Grand Canyon West, gotten back onto Pierce Ferry Road, and heading north to Pearce Ferry and South Cove. In the background of this shot is Grapevine Mesa.  This image was taken after I took my walk. The bridge extends 70ft out from the canyon wall and the vertical drop at that point is over 4,000ft. As I’ve gotten older I’ve become more ‘height aware’. So most of the time I kept my feed above one of the two steel tracks that supports the glass floor, though I did take a few steps on the glass floor to pass some other people. It was freaky! 
Very well done Richard. I can’t imagine waling out on the glass. The photo you have here is fantastic, and I love the composition. 
Thanks Royce. There are two horse-shoe shaped steel beams, each about a foot wide, that support the glass. Most people walk over those, but it’s still freaky and if you want to move past someone admiring the view, stepping on the glass over the void is your only choice. It’s one of those situation where your brain tells you it’s safe and your mind is telling you something completely different!  Ever since I had my own transport, I’ve taken off on these solo journeys – by car or motorcycle – to see what I could see. I was in Las Vegas in 2006 because my wife was attending a conference and I was tagging along. So while she was soaking up knowledge, I was soaking… 
Drove across the dam on our way home to you, stopped to take in a visit to the workings Mavis had very sore feet from the heat in Vegas so it was a bit of a tip toe visit, we were on a curtuitous route home to you, apart from the 18 wheelers on the hairpins back up the Police had seen fit to stop a couple of cars and carry out a detailed search, caused a hair raising restriction in the road width of which they seemed blissfully anaware.
They say the desert only flowers once in a hundred years but it looks as if it is a daily occurence if your in the right place.  Of course, no visit to the Hoover Dam is complete without an aerial view. Now you can get a view from the Mike O’Callaghan – Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge. I don’t know if you’re allowed to stop on the bridge to take photos – probably not. As you can see in the lower left and… 
Cool photo, just a note that you can’t stop on the bridge but there is a parking lot where you can walk to the bridge and get some great images.
Hi Roy, thanks for sharing that! 
[...] business. I rose super early and drove out from Las Vegas, crossing from Nevada into Arizona at the Hoover Dam and out along Highway 93, taking a left at Pierce Ferry Road and heading north-east before taking a [...]  Despite the austere times of the Great Depression, public art works were still funded. Across the road from the Hoover Dam Visitor Center one finds the twin Winged Figures of the Republic by sculptor Oskar J.W. Hansen. Each figure is 30 feet tall. This photo is of the feet of one of the statues. While…  So I’ll post a few more Hoover Dam photos this week, then move on. This is a view of the Nevada Powerplant that one can tour if you visit the dam. There are a couple of tours you can take, a 30-minute tour or a one hour tour. I got there relatively late in the…  So, continuing with the theme from yesterday, this is what it’s like to look down the face of the Hoover Dam. The Colorado River is about 700 feet below the top of the dam. To the left is Arizona, to the right is Nevada. The white concrete shape in the top right corner is part…
[...] my earlier shot looking down the face of the Hoover Dam it’s a detail of the surface of the water between the two generator [...]  I took this photo of a pleasure boat on Lake Mead back in 2006. The white layer of rock shows just how low the water level had dropped. The water has bleached the rock and as the level has dropped so the bleached layer has been exposed. The photo is taken from the top of…
Looks much the same as when we were there years ago, Has the water level recovered at all? or is it still dropping?
[...] in 2001, I drove over to South Cove. Here it was clear again that the dropping water level in Lake Mead had exceeded the expectations of the designers and builders of the boat ramps on the Lake. The [...] |
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by Richard Davis