After purchasing
groceries and other supplies, we started off from the marina at
the southern end of the lake near the dam. The house boat
cruises at about 8 knots. We traveled 40 miles through fantastic
rock formations that line the lake. Lake Powell looks much like
a water tour of Monument Valley (near the Four Corners area).
The rock formations are very similar.
The white "bath
tub ring" above the water line and below the cave in the rock,
is the high water mark when the lake is 100% full. While the
lake was relatively low last year, the heavy snow in the
Colorado Rocky Mountains provided enough run off for the lake
level to rise 50 feet this year. The lake is still about 100
feet below full level. That white area being 100 feet high, it
gives you and idea as to the size of the rocks.
The normal
procedure is to beach the boats and then run mooring lines from
the port and starboard stern of the craft outward at a 45 degree
angle to large Danforth anchors that are dug into the sand.