I spent two weeks down at Powell - The first week was out of Bullfrog with the family and the second week was at Antelope Point with our Venture Crew.
The water was still rising 9-13 inches a day at Bullfrog. We went up to Knowles Canyon and the water was very muddy and tons of debris. It was also fairly cold water for Lake Powell. We had an amazing thing happen in the canyon where the houseboat was. A giant slab of the cliff (150 tall 50 feet wide and about 12 feet thick) broke off and fell into the lake in the morning. I was in my boat coming back from Good Hope Bay. I have never ran out of gas before, but I ran out right at the mouth of our canyon. We were paddling back to the houseboat, when another boat in our party was just coming out. As we rounded the corner, we saw a big heap of smoking rocks next to the cliff. They saw it start to fall and watched for a few seconds -- about 6 feet of water receded from around the house boat and then a 6-8 foot wave came towards the houseboat off to the side, a bigger wave went out straight from the cliff. Our friend jumped into his Malibu and untied it from the houseboat as he went up and over the wave, he couldn't see the houseboat over the water. It rocked the houseboat up and down but everybody was fine. If we had not ran out of gas, we would have been right in front of the cliff when it fell. The rocks would have probably missed us, but who knows what the bigger wave would have done to us. I think the big guy upstairs was watching out for us.
Our friend took a movie pic of it before she got all the kids in the houseboat. I will try to get a copy posted up here.
Here is picture of it after it fell. It's hard to see the scale but the white line is about 50 feet above the water:
Here is a picture before the fall:
The water was still rising 9-13 inches a day at Bullfrog. We went up to Knowles Canyon and the water was very muddy and tons of debris. It was also fairly cold water for Lake Powell. We had an amazing thing happen in the canyon where the houseboat was. A giant slab of the cliff (150 tall 50 feet wide and about 12 feet thick) broke off and fell into the lake in the morning. I was in my boat coming back from Good Hope Bay. I have never ran out of gas before, but I ran out right at the mouth of our canyon. We were paddling back to the houseboat, when another boat in our party was just coming out. As we rounded the corner, we saw a big heap of smoking rocks next to the cliff. They saw it start to fall and watched for a few seconds -- about 6 feet of water receded from around the house boat and then a 6-8 foot wave came towards the houseboat off to the side, a bigger wave went out straight from the cliff. Our friend jumped into his Malibu and untied it from the houseboat as he went up and over the wave, he couldn't see the houseboat over the water. It rocked the houseboat up and down but everybody was fine. If we had not ran out of gas, we would have been right in front of the cliff when it fell. The rocks would have probably missed us, but who knows what the bigger wave would have done to us. I think the big guy upstairs was watching out for us.
Our friend took a movie pic of it before she got all the kids in the houseboat. I will try to get a copy posted up here.
Here is picture of it after it fell. It's hard to see the scale but the white line is about 50 feet above the water:
Here is a picture before the fall:
Here is one of the boy's first time:
do you remember that couple was killed I think it was last year by a falling slab.
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