Here we are at Echo Beach (does anyone feel a song coming on?) 'motor boating' about lake Mead. Lake mead is one of the largest man made lakes in the world, courtesy of the Hoover Dam (next blog!!)
You know you're in safe hands when 'Captain Pugwash' is at the wheel (well - engine stick thing). Top speed about 15 knots with the wind behind ye.
I stand for no subordination on my vessel, eye eye captain. Elvis said 'Cast the sails to the wind and flog the engine - how much can you get'. But enough of the pirate talk!!
Get the kettle on and start brewing up, but only if you can tell me why in the above picture (and all the lake pictures) there's a white band goes all around the shore just above the water line?
While stopping off in one of the little bays, one couldn't help but feel one was being watched. It's those crazy horses again. Actually 'Burros', but don't say anything to Ginny about them or she'll bleat on about not being first to recognise them!!
Some more 'cove spotting' in the HMS Black Pig
Here's the clue, got wings but prefers to run - very fast. Prefers roads to get top speed. The giveaway is always wily e coyote in hot pursuit.
You should see these things go!!!
Moving further down lake mead, this is Boulder Beach, well the mountain range, not the beach!
View of the lake from Calville bay
Looking over the lake from the cute city of Boulder.
Me, fulfilling my duty of 'beer inspector'. Just making sure that the Americans are keeping true to the English tried and tested formulae.
Optical illusion confusion!! A heat mirage makes this road look like it goes straight into the lake.
The lake from Calville bay
A desert scene - all those plane trails lead to and from Vegas.
And finally - OH MY GOD - it's true, the natural arch at the Valley of Fire state park that we visited last week (see previous blog picture) has collapsed!! Nothing to do with us Governor!! I even had Elvis posing underneath it - imagine the trouble I would have had putting an insurance claim in for that .
Cup of tea mayhem. Ok Ginny - you were first with the fig roll, it's just that I preferred fig 'Rerle' from Rust, but I will take the tea from him (he doesn't like fig rerles anyway). As for the Burro, I think you will find recognition for your answer in a previous blog- apologies accepted.
The Outsourcer shocked me by answering Bon Jowers 'bear' question correctly (bloody git big ones, but there's nee way that came off the net, do you remember being had with the shark question three years ago?)and googling that the picture was a sunrise, but I'm going to give the tea to our Poll for that one because she was close when she said sunset. I told you all the car question wasn't as hard as it looked (good Lord Schmenny - that was some answer), Bon Jower didn't mince his words - let that be a lesson to ye all, its a Nissan and it was made in Washington (Sunderland - my home town, not DC for the benefit of the Americans). Finally - Rusty, the Aunties want a word!
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What can I say - twice in a row. PJ - strike another one up for us Brits.
As for the white band around the lake - either some poor bugger spends his whole life with a really big white washing brush, finding that when he gets to the end, he has to start again, or it's to do with mineral deposits from what was dry land before the Dam was made (not Googled at all then!).
And I do like Fig Rerle, but not as much as Berbon biscuits.
Good to see some real beer being sampled - I sit here typing with a bottle o' Double Maxim. Quality.
I say it's scum.
The newspapers say, "Hooligan from Ford Estate Strikes Again".
The article goes on to say that there's evidence that the culprit responsible for the fallen arch is the very same minger who stuck his foot in Lake Mead - hence the ring of scum which quickly formed around the edge.
Apparently they're preparing the National Guard for your visit to the Grand Canyon!
I say the reason there is a ring of white around the lakes is because the natives actually call the lakes margarita lakes and this is because the white rings remind them of the salt that is always around a margarita glass. The bird of course is the famous road runner and don't try to take this cup of tea from me!!About the arch falling, do natural disasters follow your whole family? If I recall correctly when Sissy J went out west there were those terrible fires and when she went to Maine last year Hurricane Bill hit. Remind me not to travel with any of you Hodgesons, The Outsourcer.
Whoa ,no! I did not google that picture of the sunrise, I happen to be up every morning to see what they actually look like,Sissy J can vouch for me on that.The Outsourcer.
Me n Soph are looking at your pictures. She's just said "Keee" and "Duzan" and "a like". Ah bless her! Loving the blog. xxx
Ginan Rusty...your country needs you! One packet of Berbon's is on the way.
This band around the lake. It's not washed up pigeon shite is it cos our car's covered in it? And I'll come clean and say that's not a guess, I Googled it and that's what it said.
Explanation please....Sissy J, can you truly vouch for the Outsourcer when she says she sees the sunrise every day?
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