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| My whole childhood my family had a boat. We always spent the summers on water. Lake
Berryessa , California; the reefs of Florida and Lake
Powell on the Colorado Plateau are among my happiest memories. |
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Sunshine on my Shoulders Makes Me Happy |
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Copper Canyon, a popular venue for exhibition boat racing |
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This is how I usually think of my Dad, at the helm of a boat, wearing something tacky but somehow making it work. |
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| Ah ... there's nothing quite like the feeling of 100 MPH wind in your face ... slowly inflating your cheeks like a balloon through your nose. |
"Quack" |
This pumping station is where the State of California blatantly violates its inter-state agreements by continuously taking more water from the Colorado River than that to which it is entitled. |
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| Birth of aSunset |
The Life of a Sunset |
The Life of a Sunset |
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| Death of a Sunset |
Dead tree by campfire light |
The Colorado Plateau offers some of the most ruggedly beautiful geography in the world. |
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| Parker Dam creates Lake Havasu, helps control the flow of the Colorado River and generates clean, cheap hydro-electric power. |
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| Check out this idiot trying to cram his truck through a barricade expressly designed to keep large trucks off the dam. |
And here are the results. |
The free-flowing Colorado below the dam |
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| Driving to catch my plane out of Las Vegas back to New York, I drove over the Hoover Dam. |
It's difficult to convey, even with photos, the awesome scale of this incredible feat of engineering. |
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Workers on the rock face |
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