In the Water: Wakeboaring & Wakesurfing Lake Powell

One of the highlights of coming home from a Lake Powell trip is uploading the photos. While it can seemingly take hours to sort through the images it always ends up being worth it. Many of the photos here were the result of sunny afternoons around Padre Bay on the back of a Mastercraft X35 (it was made for this!) Most bays around the lake provide great wakeboaring / wakesurfing opportunities, such as the Bullfrog Marina area, Halls Creek Bay, Padre Bay and Warm Creek Bay. It's hard to imagine a trip to Lake Powell without watersports. I suppose you could still have fun?

Rainbow Bridge National Monument in Pictures

In the midst of a stellar weekend on a houseboat at Lake Powell we visited Rainbow Bridge National Monument. It's a great day-trip if you're near Bullfrog Marina, Halls Crossing or Wahweap. Getting to Rainbow Bridge feels like most goverment maintained monuments; a well maintained hiking trail, clean(ish) restrooms, printed signs and a good boat dock. The short hike (currently 2/3 mile) leads travelers up a brief incline through towering red rock walls and into the low basin housing the natural bridge. It doesn't take more than a few minutes and you find yourself seeing the bridge in the background...a few minutes more and you're virtually underneath it.