Canyon Lake Filled

As you Know Canyon Lake was Drained, Now its refilled and opened for Boating again. I took a bunch of Pictures over time before it was drained, after it was drain, and after it was filled up again.

Here are some pics of the lake before it was drained and after it was drained.


Here are some pics of us walking around on the bottom of the dried lake bed.

During the Time of the draw down it rained and washed away a lot of sediment, and here are some pictures of lake bed after it rained.

As you can see in the above photos the rain lowered the floor of the lake down a good 10 to 15 feet.

Over the time of the Lake draw down I was able to get before and after pictures so here are some of those.




On my last trip to Canyon lake after they had filled it, I had just bought a new Digital Camera so my Girlfriend and I took Photos of everything we thought to be Interesting to us and we took photos of each other also. She had a small digital camera of her own. Here are some of the photos we took with our cameras.



After we had finished walking around taking photos we had lunch at the LAKESIDE RESTAURANT & CANTINA Here are some Photos from the Balcony where we sat and ate our lunch.

Amanda ordered a Philly cheese steak, and she loved it. I ordered a Double hamburger and it was really good. We were the only ones to eat outside because people thought it was too cold outside. After we finished eating we left to go home and we came upon someone trying to get back to town on a flat tire, He was going a whole five miles an hour.

As you can see in the photo he has no spare tire. We had to pass him three times because we stopped to take photos as we left the lake.

Amanda and I Camping.

I finally got a job with paid vacation that I used for fun and not on a work place injury. I went camping over the weekend with my girlfriend, we went to Payson, AZ. We camped at the Ponderosa Campsite, I don't know exactly where it is, but its not hard to find.
I don't have picture's of the campsite but I do have GPS location on it, N34°17'57.22" - W111° 6'50.13". We went on a drive up the S R 260 East/North bound to Woods Canyon Lake, (the GPS location is N34°20'2.97"- W110°56'41.08") on Saturday. We tried to go fishing but it was to crowded. On the way there we took photos of the beautiful scenery. We managed to go back to Woods Canyon Lake on Sunday and we got about 4 hours of fishing in, but we caught no fish. So we gave up on fish and started to catch crayfish. It was not hard all you needed was something dead or food from anywhere.

Here are some pictures of squirrel's near our campsite.



My brothers can say whatever they want about these next photos, we took them on purpose.




The next Photos are from our Drive up and down the S R 260.






Later we Drove to the Tonto Rim Fish Hatchery, which has been renovated a lot since I was a kid. I found the old fish ponds which have over grown plant life around them.






When we left the Fish Hatchery, we spotted a doe running away from the road but it was to fast for us to get its picture. I remembered that there was a water fall near the Tonto Rim campgrounds so found it and here it is.

Attempts at taking Good Photo's

My older Brother went out and bought a really nice digital camera and he has been using it to make HDR pictures. My twin Brother went out and bought himself a real nice camera. All I could get was a cheap Digital camera from Best Buy, it cost about a hundred dollars. The Camera is called Fujifilm FinePix 5.1 mega pixels. The Camera is a good one it just can't do alot of stuff the ones My Brothers bought.

One day we went hunting, but first we wanted to take Photos of the desert at sunrise. Here is one of the only good picture I took before the Sun came up.



I took over 20 pictures of the scenery before the sun came up and that was the only good one. When the Sun came up we started to take photos of everything we could, On some we were trying to use the HDR technique but my camera could not do HDR very well. So I took pictures of everything and anything while my brothers went nuts with their better Cameras.



Since I could not do HDR so I started to take pictures of my brothers while they were taking pictures of other things. The pictures turned out real well.



I had some fun taking pictures of my Twin brothers Vehicle with the sun behind it.



While I was taking my pictures my brother decided to get on top of his vehicle to take his own unique photos so I took his picture.



Well when the sun came up and we had nearly 1000 pictures combined we decided to go hunting. After we went hunting and came back to the vehicle we had fun with our rifles.

My Baby Nephew

I should have posted these pics along time ago.

My twin brother and his wife went and had a kid, They had to go and breed of all things. Don't get me wrong I care for My brother and his wife. The most important thing is my Nephew Sean.
He is really cute, He was born 9 lbs 14 oz 20 1/2 inches long on Jan. 25Th 2007, 2:42 p.m.


This is Sean's Very Proud Father.


My Father Bob has never been aloud to see his other grandson until he was 10 or so years old, and he will probably never see his granddaughter ever. But this is my father holding his Grandson.
That is His Thumb next to Sean's foot.

Here are some more pics.


The woman holding Sean is my Girlfriend/Future wife.
This Photo is me holding Sean.

Genetics

The following Photo is what my older brother will look like when he hits 60+ years of age.