Nevada Travel Log — Hoover Dam

The Adventures of Ron and Val in Las Vegas, Area 51, and Southern Nevada.

MVC-816F.JPG (51530 bytes) Lake Mead from the Hoover Dam visitor center.
 
MVC-822F.JPG (73734 bytes) A bloomin' cactus at the visitor center
 
MVC-835F.JPG (65932 bytes) Dam that's big!
 
MVC-842F.JPG (69381 bytes) And windy, too.
 
MVC-834F.JPG (75180 bytes) Some things should be obvious...
 
MVC-839F.JPG (80547 bytes) Look really close down by the trucks, see the people!
 
MVC-838F.JPG (82825 bytes) No, well, here they are magnified 10 times.
 
MVC-845F.JPG (60523 bytes) Lake Mead draining into one of the inlet tubes.
 
MVC-846F.JPG (61812 bytes) Amazing that they built this way back in the 1930's!