Although it’s not as cool as Frog-Mania, I guess, I went fishing yesterday with my brother and my dad. We caught my thumb, some kelp-type things, and a whole lot of nasty glares from some schools of fish. It was cool to be reeling in the lure (which looked so much like a tiny fish I forgot sometimes) and then see these silhouettes emerge from the murk that is Lake Pleasant. One even got so annoyed at the lure that it zipped up, flailed and thrashed, and then disappeared.
Even though I was on the shoreline, I still jumped back. We had previously seen some giant yellow-orange fish’s mouth slash out of the water and disappear quickly. My brother guesses megalodon. I’m guessing a Tagruato creature. My dad thinks bass.
While we didn’t fish at Hoover Dam, here are some pictures from the last day of our road trip.
They know how to party at The Dam.
Here’s where we waited for a criminal to be apprehended while the entire dam was shut down:
Winged Figures of the Republic. Here’s what the artist has to say about it:
Hansen said the 30-foot bronzed statues represented “that eternal vigilance which is the price of liberty.” Perched on six-foot-tall cues of gleaming black diorite, Hansen’s figures flank a 142-foot flagpole. In front of this array he placed a terrazzo star map depicting the celestial alignment from that site on the evening of September 30, 1935, the day President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated what was then called Boulder Dam.
Hansen also created the nearby bronze plaque memorializing the 96 workers who died during construction of the dam. An inscription proclaims, “They died to make the desert bloom.”
I wonder if there’s more to the story…
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FBWDCAB notes the presence of a stylized graphic of a bison on the side of a truck in the Hoover Dam photos. No child is present in the photo.