We toured Glen Canyon Dam, going down into the inside, seeing the eight turbines and all…quite interesting..They told us the building of the dam is still not paid for even though they have generated about 3 billion dollars in revenue so far. Power generated at Glen Canyon goes all over the southwest, New Mexico, Arizona, California and Texas. Did you know they had to build a 2 mile tunnel to get the equipment into the lower working area of the dam and it has an 8 percent grade. The workers use it daily and the company that rafts the river use it to deploy their rafts. One shot is of the front, or dam side and the other shot of of the Lake Powell side. The water level is up as they have had good rain and snow melts. Our guide said a good snow melt could raise the level of the lake about 15 inches. Amazing, huh?…..

We took a boat tour of Lake Powell, about a 3 hour boat ride…They took us down near the dam and up one of the canyons…I thought the recording was kidding when they said do not put your arms out as you may get caught between the canyon wall and the boat…this was a big boat maybe a 80 to 100 ft or so…I am thinking there is no way they would go up a canyon that would crowd this big, expensive boat between canyon walls….wrong…the boat went on back until it was boxed in the canyon…it surely had side thrusters to turn around like it did….That was very interesting….Lake Powell tour was sweeties favorite part of our vacation…Glen Canyon Dam may have been mine….