Padre Point

Wednesday, April 16. Once again no cell service where we stopped this afternoon, so will upload this later. Departed our nice beach spot in Navajo Canyon and returned to the main Lake Powell channel. Along the way, Mike and Christy stopped to swim a bit. A little too chilly for me, as the water temp was 61F. Bill and I continued on, and they caught up to us later. Out on the main channel, I was able to get some cell service, so uploaded yesterday’s blog, after calling and checking in with Rosanne. (On the water, and away from Page and Wahweap, usually you can get a signal if you have line of sight with Navajo Mountain, where the cell tower is.) The next canyon we turned into was Labyrinth Canyon. Much shorter than Navajo Canyon, and most of it much narrower. In fact there were a few areas where two boats could not have passed each other. Nowhere to anchor or beach for the night, so we just went in, and came back out. Actually, Mike and Christy stopped in one location where they could temporarily anchor, to take their Kaboat up the canyon a little farther than we could get our boats. Winds really picked up late this afternoon, so we spent some time looking for an adequate place to stop for the day. Found a fairly protected cove and beach near Padre Point. With the winds, it took Bill a little while to get set up. As he was anchoring I just bowed into the shore and kept the motor running to keep C-Traveler in place until Bill was situated. The winds kept blowing him sideways so I left C-Traveler to grab his stern line. He was then able to shut down his outboard and trim it up, so we could finish pulling him closer to shore. Little Joe (Mike and Christy) caught up, and came in, anchored and got situated as well. I had planned to back off the beach, and then back in also, but couldn’t get my stakes pounded into the area due to sandstone rock under the sand. Bill found spots between Mystery Girl and Little Joe, that my stakes would go in, so I ended up backing in there, and then throwing them my lines to hook on to the stakes. All three of us are bow anchored and stern tied to shore, fairly close together. After supper I decided to hike up the hill behind us some to take some pictures of our boats and the background scenery. Then decided to walk over to the higher butte to the right in front of us to get some photos. Mike saw me, and hiked up as well. Today was another 80 degree day, with plenty of sunshine. By the end of the week, forecast shows a couple days only in the 50’s. And windy tomorrow…Read more