Tag:Nevada
I was wondering what to title this image. It’s a view east along Northshore Road in the Lake Mead Recreational Area. As I was looking at the road that winds its way through the desert hills I got to thinking this is no Roman road, with all its twists and turns. And then I got to thinking of the Thomas Hardy poem. Forty years on I can still recite the opening lines, “The Roman Road runs straight and bare as […]
The Roman Road runs straight and bare
As the pale parting line in hair
Across the heath.
Photo of Arch Rock, a natural formation in the Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada.
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!
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 day and just took the 30-minute tour. You take an elevator 530 down through the canyon walls to the power plant. The powerplant room is […]
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 of the visitor’s center. Taken in 2006, in the upper right corner you can also see the supports of what would become the Mike O-Callaghan […]
