Cruise on Canyon Lake

Last year when Carol and I were out here we drove Apache Trail. We saw this “steamboat” cruise but it is always fully booked so we couldn’t get tickets. This year we got them in advance so were able to go.

This is one of the cliffs along the lake. The fisherman and his boat give a  sense of scale.

Whenever you take one of these trips the narrator points out “pictures” in the rock walls. This mastodon was fairly obvious but I took the liberty to outline it anyway

The Mastodon.

As this lake is in the Sonoran Desert wherever there is vegetation it is typical of the region.

Lakeside Saguaro cactus

Tom

On the Road

We’re on our way down to Arizona and we’ll be there a week or so.

Yesterday and today we were just driving down I-5. On our driving days we don’t spend much time stopping for photo ops though there are a couple of scenic overlooks we routinely stop at. The first is near Mt Shasta.

Shasta, like Mt Hood has much less snow than we expect to see this time of year.

California Central Valley.

Last year a this time these hillsides were all sere brown. These hills and valleys are beautiful when green as they are now.

Tom & Carol