Lake Takes: July 2010

We went to Deer Creek for the first time in a long time. Erin and Chelsea went with us and we met up with Chelsea's boss and his brothers in their new boat. We decided to go to Deer Creek because Tyler wanted to learn to surf. The weather was kind of strange all night. When we got there it was really crowded with tubers. As the night went on, the water calmed down. After going to Lake Powell and finding out that our fat sack pump was broken, it was great to be on a deep lake with the fat sacks full again. The wave on the port side was awesome!! Tyler and his brothers had bought a longer surf board than we have. It was fun to ride a different board. The long board rides totally different from the short one. We all had a great time riding.

We took Dustin and Jen and their family and Erin and Chelsea to Lake Powell with us this trip. We camped the first night at the mouth of West Canyon. We got anchored just in time to see the most beautiful sunset of the week. Monday morning it was off to scout for a better site for the week. We ended up on the Dry Creek fork of Rock Creek Canyon. The site was very nice. We had an entire cove to ourselves on the 4th of July week! We were able to play up and down the main fork of Dry Creek and had great water every day.

This trip was a much needed relaxing vacation. We had such a busy, hectic schedule. Of the preceding 9 Saturdays, I was only home for 2 of them. We enjoyed a peaceful relaxing trip. We spent quite a bit of time exploring the canyons between West Canyon and Rainbow Bridge. Every one of them brings new surprises at every bend. It is so much fun to wind up in a canyon and go through narrow, tight passes, only to see them open up and go much further.

All of the kids loved the water time. All 3 boys wakeboarded, skied, surfed and tubed. Colbie and Stacia also surfed. We enjoyed swimming all around our cove.

We camped near Dangling Rope Marina. On the day we did most of our exploring we stopped in for ice cream. Bad news, the machine was broken. This makes 2 trips in a row that we have stopped at Dangling Rope and not gotten ice cream. They don't even sell packaged ice cream in the store. After a long, hot day there is nothing better than the ice cream and we have been skunked twice in a row!

The trip back to the marina was a fast one and we were able to pump out, gas up and clean up in record time. After we were done, we enjoyed Trisha's new favorite tradition of swimming in the resort pool before going home.