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.