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We left Wednesday to go camping out on Lake Mead. We headed over the Hoover Dam and into Arizona where we ended up camping in Kingman Wash. The first night was amazing with a calm lake and a beautiful sunset. There was a guy that was scuba diving for about 2 hours and when he came up he told us all about the hundreds of fish he found down there. No dead bodies thrown in by the Las Vegas mob though.

Thursday when we woke up the wind had picked up and we were getting pelted with blowing sand. We decided to go out into the lake for a little swim and cruise around on our rafts. The wind got crazy out there on the lake, and our camp site was getting killed with sand. As we were paddling back to shore a gust of wind came up and pulled three out of four of our tent stakes right out of the ground, so our tent was flapping in the wind with all our stuff in it, including cell phones and digital cameras.

We paddled back as fast as we could and we were able to contain the tent when one of our rafts blew out in the lake. Michael swam out about 200 feet to rescue it, while I sat on the tent so it wouldn’t blow away for good. When he got back to shore we decided to just pack it up and go home and sleep in our bed.

Even though the trip was cut short, we enjoyed the time we did spend out there. Here are some pictures.

[tags]Lake Mead, Kingman Wash, tent camping[/tags]

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Robin on 12 October, 2008 at 1:05 am

This is very pleasant and amazing experience. The blowing air is impressive nearby the lake.and the feeling of the blowing air cheers up. To see the thousands of fish in the lake can amaze anyone.

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cchiovitti on 12 October, 2008 at 8:13 am

I’ve been to the Hoover Dam many times. The best memory I have is when I was there with my mom and sister in 91. There was a group of Japanese gentlemen who went with us on the tour (pre- 9/11 so we had a full tour in to the dam) and then wanted us to take their pix and then had to take our pix WITH them. And then bought us lunch. It was weird, but sweet and I still have pictures of those guys in my photo album!

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Jules on 14 October, 2008 at 5:40 pm

Robin – I blowing breeze is nice, but this was a straight up sand storm that burned my eyes, OUCH!

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Jules on 14 October, 2008 at 5:41 pm

cchiovitti – HA! That is a cool story!

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Heather in Beautiful BC on 29 October, 2008 at 2:35 pm

Sure is lucky you were so good at sitting on the tent to keep it from blowing away while Michael put his life on the line to rescue the raft!!! Heh heh…. just kidding. You did a very important job

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Jules on 29 October, 2008 at 2:50 pm

Heather, it was JUST LIKE THAT also. The raft blew in the lake. He looked at me, I looked at him, I sat down on the tent and he shrugged and headed towards the lake. LOL!

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Lisa on 29 October, 2008 at 6:28 pm

I love the water shots and the tent story. LOL

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Mark on 30 October, 2008 at 11:08 am

Oh the pleasures of camping.Sounds like you had a lot of fun and thank god you saved the tent and the raft!

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Priya on 3 November, 2008 at 4:30 pm

It must be gr8 adventurous time? pics are nice.

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