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Posted By: Nickens, Dan
Date Posted: Jan 17, 2016
Description: Even hard working ferry pilots need to stop for a break now and then. Last fall I rented a new Chrysler car that said it's so for my driving! As we were cruising serenely down the road it would tell me ""Take a Break!"" Ann said it was because I wasn't staying between the lines. Between the car's admonitions and Ann's outbursts of laughter at it I learned a serious safety lesson: never buy a car that critiques your driving.

You can't trust the computers in these LSX EFIS systems either. Sooner or later they will gripe about something. I was just proactive about stopping for a break before it could complain.

No worries about tires sinking into hard rock at this break station!
Date Taken: July 13, 2015
Place Taken: North of Olijato, Utah
Owner: Nickens, Dan
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Nickens, Dan - Jan 09,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Buried in the water drilled holes are micro-ecosystems. Just imagine the biggest gecko claiming to be king of all he can see. Following visions of "Yertle the Turtle" , he could make a twenty gecko stack to see over the edge. (North of Goulding Trading Post, Utah)


         Oasis Kingdoms 		    
  
Nickens, Dan - Jan 09,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Singing along with CCR.....
"Left a good job in the city
Working for the man every night and day
And I never lost one minute of sleeping
Worrying 'bout the way things might have been

Big Prop, keep on turning
Cloud Aerie, keep on yearning
Rolling, rolling, rolling on the river"

Just drifting on downstream air ways.
(Cutting through the Hoskinnini Mesa, Utah)


         Rolling with the River 		    
  
Philip Mendelson - Jan 12,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Great Work!     
  
Nickens, Dan - Jan 09,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Rocky arms reach out, not to embrace, to redirect. Straight lines have hard consequences at SeaRey altitudes. Work or no, you gotta go where the rocks send you.
(Lake Powell, Utah)


         Rocky Arm 		    
  
Nickens, Dan - Jan 09,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Last rock standing. Just a straggler. A last monument to lost eons. A wing waggle salute was given to its stalwart stubbornness.
(Lake Powell, Utah)


         Lone Finger 		    
  
Nickens, Dan - Jan 09,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    The easiest way is to just stick with the channel going downstream.
(Lake Powell, Utah)


         Down Channel 		    
  
Nickens, Dan - Jan 09,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Preview of coming attractions. Arches National Park is just a little to the north, but it may be moving south in a few eons.
(Lake Powell, Utah)


         Future Arches 		    
  
Chris Mager - Jan 16,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    YOU LIVE A GOOD LIFE SIR DAN !     
  
Nickens, Dan - Jan 17,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    It was a great life, Captain, flying your future airplane. Now that life can be yours too!     
  
Nickens, Dan - Jan 09,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Sculpted by wind and water into well rounded river pebbles on a large scale. It will be a while before these are available for easy skipping over the lake.
(Lake Powell, Utah)


         Rounded Sculptures 		    
  
Nickens, Dan - Jan 09,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Changing course in a hairpin turn is a rocky river's specialty.
(Lake Powell, Utah)


         Rapid Reversal 		    
  
Nickens, Dan - Jan 09,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Red and white mix to pink.
(Lake Powell, Utah)


         Almost Pink 		    
  
Nickens, Dan - Jan 09,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    This is not Florida. There is no limestone here. The holes were not dissolved. They were abraded. Holes may be holes, but these have hard bottoms.
(Lake Powell, Utah)


         Pretty Pockets 		    
  
Kenneth Leonard - Jan 12,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    On lake George, NY, they are called ""Indian Kettles"" and they are quite round where the sand swirled around and abraided the stone.
Some across from our bay are waist deep and make a great picture with guests standing in them. 		    
  
Nickens, Dan - Jan 09,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Before the lake rose up to fill the canyons, this was just another winding stream bed.
(Lake Powell, Utah)


         Sharp Curves 		    
  
Nickens, Dan - Jan 09,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Bounded flight surrounded by channel walls is not so confining when the scenery is this spectacular.
(Lake Powell, Utah)


         Side View 		    
  
Nickens, Dan - Jan 09,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Canyons give way to mesas and far vistas because gravity has the winning hand.
(Lake Powell, Utah)


         Open Spaces 		    
  
Dave Edward - Jan 10,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Absolutely stunning Dan. Was it very obvious to you that water levels are drastically receding ?
Thanks for the journey. 		    
  
Nickens, Dan - Jan 10,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    The "bath tub ring" on rock walls is clear evidence of lower water levels, Dave. I suspect, however, that the level is actually rebounding from previous lows. The dam report shows water level lower for "Water Year 2016" but inflow up 7%.      Attachments:  

Lake Powell Water Data
Lake Powell Water Data

    
  
Jim Moline - Jan 10,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Just stunning Dan........as you know we have nothing like this, so tracking on G Earth is fascinating. thank you     
  
Nickens, Dan - Jan 17,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Good things do end. Eventually you run out of water and stop or climb onto dry land. Sigh. But, maybe, just maybe, if you look you will find other good things even on a dry plateau.

(Paria Canyon Vermillion Cliff Wilderness Area west of Marble Canyon, AZ)


         Lake''s End 		    
  
Nickens, Dan - Jan 17,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    A dry canyon shows all the colors of the rock, including the brilliant red of cinnabar.

(Paria Canyon Vermillion Cliff Wilderness Area, AZ)


         Colors of Dry 		    
  
Nickens, Dan - Jan 17,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Looking back down canyon you could believe it goes on forever. It does go a long deep way to become the Grand Canyon.

(Paria Canyon Vermillion Cliff Wilderness Area, AZ)


         Long Way Down 		    
  
Nickens, Dan - Jan 17,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    It might be a bit exciting trying to find a nice emergency landing spot down at the bottom, but the flat edges of the Paria Plateau would be a good option.

(Paria Canyon Vermillion Cliff Wilderness Area, AZ)


         Flying the Edge 		    
  
Nickens, Dan - Jan 17,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Sometimes the sand just spills out of sandstone.

(Paria Canyon Vermillion Cliff Wilderness Area, AZ and UT)


         Sand Box 		    
  
Nickens, Dan - Jan 17,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Down in the deep colors run green. (Paria Canyon Vermillion Cliff Wilderness Area, AZ and UT)


         Deep Color 		    
  
Nickens, Dan - Jan 17,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    The Paria River cuts corners a lot tighter than I could follow.

(Paria Canyon Vermillion Cliff Wilderness Area, AZ and UT)


         Cutting Curves 		    
  
Nickens, Dan - Jan 17,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Finely layered contouring happens even with extreme erosion.

(Paria Canyon Vermillion Cliff Wilderness Area, AZ and UT)


         Thinly Layered 		    
  
Nickens, Dan - Jan 17,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Wedged in between red times there was an outbreak of whiteness.

(Paria Canyon Vermillion Cliff Wilderness Area, AZ and UT)


         White Slice 		    
  
Nickens, Dan - Jan 17,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Some colors won't flow together.

(Paria Canyon Vermillion Cliff Wilderness Area, AZ and UT)


         Unmixed Colors 		    
  
Nickens, Dan - Jan 17,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Organic rock?

(Paria Canyon Vermillion Cliff Wilderness Area, AZ and UT)


         Cauliflower Salad Red Wine Vinaigrette 		    
  
Nickens, Dan - Jan 17,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Many lines give support to the mounds.

(Paria Canyon Vermillion Cliff Wilderness Area, AZ and UT)


         Mounding Stripes 		    


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