hoover dam

Night lights of Las Vegas
Red Rock Canyon

Red Rock Canyon

Hoover Dam

Bronte at Hoover Dam

Wednesday 5th March. Today we headed off about 50ks to the Hoover Dam. Damn!!, pardon the pun, the dam is huge, it's 660 feet thick at the bottom, 48 feet thick at the top and the concrete weighs 6.6 million tonnes. There is enough concrete in the dam wall to make a foot path 4 feet wide and 3 inches thick all the way around the equator. Now that's a lot of concrete. It's almost to hard to believe until you see it in real life. Did a tour that takes you to the turbines in the base of the wall that generates the electricity. After that we went to the Red Rock Canyon, which was about 70 ks from the dam across the other side of Las Vegas. The scenery was fantastic as we completed a 13 mile scenic drive around the bottom of the Canyon. Tomorrow I think we are going to head to the Grand Canyon and do the glass viewing platform. Not sure yet, will see how we feel when we get up. The Grand Canyon is a couple of hundred of kilometres away. Given the price of petrol here that does not matter, it's only about $3 a gallon.

After dinner we went for another drive to higher ground to look at the lights of Las Vegas. Found a good place about 30 ks away. It was good just to stop and look. We managed to take a couple of photos that turned out OK. I have posted one of the photos.