Lake Havasu, part 2 (02-16-14)

On the Water

Since most of the fireworks displays take place at night (although you’d be surprised at how many are actually set off during the day), it leaves us with all kinds of time to explore.  All 6 of us are boaters at heart, so we elected to take a jet boat tour of the area. I think we all like to go fast, too!

The tour guide gave us the history of the area, including this part of the Colorado River.  We saw some petroglyphs along the way but as hard as they tried to find some big horn sheep to show us, the best they could come up with was a few wild burros.









The tour included a stop for lunch at a waterfront restaurant, where the guys tried to make off with one of the barrels of rum.









 

The goofing around continued throughout the day.  We sure do have fun with this group!

We’ll take the High Road and you take the Low Road….

The hike of the day was to Lizard Peek.  We started off on the trail with Julie and Mike, but soon split off- they were taking the low road, to SARA’s Crack, and we were taking the high road- to the peak. The trail was about 4 miles long with 600 ft of elevation gain.

Along the way we found a cave, so naturally Paul had to stop and explore:

This trail is also called Picnic Table trail, because at the top of the mountain, there is a picnic table that was carried up the trail by hand, back in the 1980s.

Once again, the views were great- Lake Havasu on one side and the town on the other side. 

When we looked down the other side, we were surprised to see Julie and Mike walking along the lower trail. We whistled to them and took their picture.  They waved up to us and took our picture too.

We were also surprised to look far below and see the lizard that the trail is named for ( you can actually see it in the picture above, too). He’s about 80 feet long and was created in the 1980s.

Once we were back at the rigs, it was time for some relaxing before the fireworks show.

Here are some of the pictures I took that night.  Its very hard to get good pictures because the altitude varies every time they set one off, so I don’t know where to aim the camera.