Padre Bay

Very peaceful night last night, and only down to mid 60’s. A little confusing getting up this morning. The issue being with time zones. Arizona does not follow day light’s saving time, but the Navajo Nation does. Utah of course also does. The problem pops up on our cell phones when they switch between an Arizona tower, or a Utah tower. Or a Navajo Nation tower. So anyway we agreed with Alain we would use Arizona time. Unfortunately, my cellphone switched over to a Utah tower before losing service, so we woke up an hour earlier than we had to! I fixed that today, and manually set my phone to follow Arizona time! It was a bit breezy today, so the main channel was a bit choppy. Before leaving our beach this morning, I hiked up the hill in front of us. I noticed a lot of critter tracks in the sand. Perhaps somebody can tell me what critter made them. (I added some photos of them.) I’m guessing perhaps a large crow? Then after departing, we turned to continue up Navajo Canyon. We were beached about 7 miles in from the main channel of Lake Powell, and went in another 3.5 miles before turning around as I don’t think we could have gotten much farther. Came out of Navajo and was planning to stop at Padre Point, at a beach I stopped at in April. When we got there, we found that the 15’ drop in water since then, had pretty much made that area unusable, except for maybe one boat. We continued on and found a nice large beach area along the main channel, just before reaching Padre Bay. Eventually we went hiking up into the bluffs around us. Rosanne just went part way, and then Alain and I climbed much higher. It’s interesting to see some of the beach plants with blooming buds on them. They’ve had a lot of rain in the area over the past week or so. We’ve only had sporadic cell service and even then barely enough to get a text. Alain has generously allowed me to log into his Starlink when he has it running, so I’ll get this uploaded shortly.En savoir plus