On the way to the dam, I kept looking over my left shoulder seeing great pictures. "Ooh! Look at that! Well, if I stop every place I see a picture, we'll never get where we're going... not to mention, don't want to use up all the "film". I'll stop and get that shot on the way back." I said (or thought) it at least a half-dozen times. There's a little pull-out and stone picnic bench here. We watered the dogs and I took a couple shots with the 35mm. While I was climbing down the hill to get a better look into a bay, (opposite direction from the dam) I heard a splash. I looked over, and only saw expanding concentric circles. Before I could bring the camera to bear, a fish jumped up and completely cleared the water! I don't know fish species very well, and about all I could see was the underside of it, which was a kind of pinkish color. He was at least 100 yards away, and for me to have seen him at all must have made him at least 18" long! I snapped the zoom out to 75mm and waited... and waited... <sigh> and waited. Figures... Later, from the water intake towers, we saw scores of fish swimming at the edge between light and shade right at the towers' shadows.

You must have noticed how low the water was looking at the dam, but looking out this way, you get a sense of how much bigger the lake is when the water's higher.

Doesn't it look dated? Like a monument to communism from the thirties or something.

All the dark spots at the base of the eagle are coins. People will throw money at the darndest places! (I bet you wonder if I threw any down there... I'll never tell ;-)

Any comment?

We ended up returning by going around the south side of San Carlos Lake, so I didn't get those panoramas I saw on the way over... maybe there'll be a next time. For the snow lover(s), we're now much closer to those mountains that I'm sure you were squinting at in earlier pictures saying, "Oh, that's no snow!"