Lake Powell Trip

Beautiful Last Chance Bay at Lake Powell

On August 14th, we took a three-day trip to Lake Powell. Our neighbors and friends the Wades were nice enough to let us borrow their boat...so it was off to Wahweep we went! We put in at Wahweep on Tues morning and drove the boat with all of our gear up channel to Last Chance Bay and found a really nice campsite in one of the fingers of the bay shaded from the wind and main channel. It was really a beautiful spot on a sandy beach.

Camp site in Last Chance Bay

The weather was really great...not too hot and the water was bathtub warm...in fact, I really don't remember the water ever being as warm as it was this trip....truly bath water temperature as evidenced below. The first night however, we experienced a terrific lightning and rainstorm. It was really cool.

Nice polygamist hairdo Val and nice shampoo point Ava!

The next day we took a tour up to see one of natures incredible wonders, Rainbow Natural Bridge. With the water being low, we had a 3/4 mile hike up the canyon from where we left the boat. I am always impressed to see the bridge, no matter how many times I have seen it.

After Rainbow Bridge and lunch, we toured Cathedral Canyon which is just west of Rainbow Canyon. As you can see below, it was really breathtaking up in the canyon. We went as far as we could in the boat, then Maureen and the kids went up further swimming as the canyon walls go more narrow. You can see just how low the lake is....about 30 from the high water mark.

Cathedral Canyon

If you look really close above, you can see 4 swimmers up in the narrow canyon. I stayed back and made sure the boat was ok as there was no place to tie it up.

No Lake Powell trip could be complete without plenty of water skiing! Here is Valerie getting up for the first time on one ski. Adam, Valerie and Ava skied and wake boarded for several hours each day until their muscles dropped off...Even Maureen was coaxed in to ski as well!

There was plenty of shore activity as well, here are the kids and their sand castle at our campsite.

Here I am on the boat before one of our adventures.

Another Lake Powell tradition is cliff jumping. We drove the boat up to the top of Last Chance Bay and went into a side canyon called Twitchell Canyon. There we found a cliff, not too high to jump off of. Here is Maureen and Ava's legs flying through the air!

It took a full 3 minutes to for Val and Adam to decide to go off holding hands or not....they decided to hold hands!

Lake Powell is a great vacation, very relaxing and picturesque. Here is Maureen up in at a beautiful spot in Twitchell Canyon. We had a great time and enjoyed every minute.