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Posted By: Nickens, Dan
Date Posted: Apr 3, 2016
Description: Taking a cool swim break is one advantage of SeaRey touring. It's harder to justify when you are working, on a mission, a task, a job to be completed. On the other hand, OSHA requires breaks for intensive work tasks, right? Or it could have been incipient heat stroke causing me to lose focus on the job of flying.

How many other serious folks have been lost in the desert only to be diverted by the illusion of cool, clear water?


""All day I've faced a barren waste
Without the taste of water, cool water
Old Dan and I with throats burnt dry
And souls that cry for water
Cool, clear, water

Keep a-movin, Dan, don'tcha listen to him, Dan
He's a devil, not a man
And he spreads the burning sand with water
Dan, can ya see that big, green tree?
Where the water's runnin' free
And it's waitin' there for me and you?
It's water, cool, clear water.

The nights are cool and I'm a fool
Each star's a pool of water
Cool water
But with the dawn I'll wake and yawn
And carry on to water
Cool, clear, water

Keep a-movin, Dan, don'tcha listen to him, Dan
He's a devil, not a man
And he spreads the burning sand with water
Dan, can ya see that big, green tree?
Where the water's runnin' free
And it's waitin' there for me and you?

It's water, cool, clear, water
Cool, clear, water
Cool, clear, water""

Lyrics to Cool Clear Water(Originally by Bob Nolan)
Date Taken: July 13, 2015
Place Taken: Overton Arm, Lake Mead near Echo Bay, Nevada
Owner: Nickens, Dan
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Nickens, Dan - Mar 31,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    The Grand Canyon Special Flight Restrictions had to be circumnavigated. Climbing out of Paria Canyon north of the restrictions put me on top on the plateau. There was greenery in the streams but the shrubberies are not nearly so deep as back in the canyon.

Green Stream
(Near Kanab, UT)

    
  
Nickens, Dan - Mar 31,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    The high plains looked like a bombing range. Could it be an ecologically incorrect critter mounding mayhem? Utah Prairie Dog burrows? I didn't stop to investigate, what with trying to be seriously on a schedule (or some other nonsensical excuse like the probability of breaking off a gear leg in a psuedo-gopher hole).

What in Sandhill?
(Near Kanab, UT)

    
  
Nickens, Dan - Mar 31,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Color coordinated layering rises above the high plateau.

Banded Lands
(White Cliffs near Mt. Carmel Junction, UT)

    
  
Nickens, Dan - Mar 31,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    How did the ancient constructors make their blocks fit so smoothly into their sandstone walls?

Blocking Ridge

(Canaan Mountain Wilderness Area, UT)

    
  
Nickens, Dan - Mar 31,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    It all falls apart at the bottom! Soft multicolored bases are all that's left of fallen cliffs.

Soft Landing
(Canaan Mountain Wilderness Area, UT)

    
  
Nickens, Dan - Mar 31,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Linear construction is so architecturally dull, until it just happens naturally.

Hill Lineations
(Canaan Mountain Wilderness Area, UT)

    
  
Nickens, Dan - Mar 31,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Crossing a wide stream valley opens vistas up, down, and all around.

Over Viewing
(Virgin River near Virgin, UT)

    
  
Nickens, Dan - Mar 31,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Flattened, but not leveled. It can be fixed in Photoshop, or by banking just right.

Old Flat Top
(Near Hurricane, UT)

    
  
Nickens, Dan - Mar 31,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Black lines show where young hot rocks covered the older cool sedentary ones.

Hot and Hilly
(Near Hurricane, UT)

    
  
Nickens, Dan - Mar 31,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    It's not red tide. It's red sand.

Reddy and Sandy
(Sand Hollow State Park near Hurricane, UT)

    
  
Nickens, Dan - Mar 31,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    A hard spot in the soft, clear water.

Hard Spot
(Sand Hollow State Park near Hurricane, UT)

    
  
Nickens, Dan - Mar 31,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    The golf course is surrounded by one big red sand trap.

Artificial Boundaries
(Near St. George, UT)

    
  
Nickens, Dan - Mar 31,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Earth plates tilted and cut by water make colorful lines.

Bright Trench
(South of St. George, UT)

    
  
Nickens, Dan - Mar 31,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Some of the earth lines stick up in a three dimensional way.

A Ridge Runs Through It
(Outside of St. George, UT)

    
  
Nickens, Dan - Mar 31,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Off roading vehicles draw white lines in the sand.

Happy White Trails
(Southeast of St. George, UT)

    
  
Nickens, Dan - Mar 31,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    All the lines meet in the middle like a giant spider web.

Convoluted White Ways
(Southeast of St. George, UT)

    
  
Nickens, Dan - Mar 31,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Why not just climb ashore? When the outside temperature is hovering above a hundred, the cool water is natural air conditioning.

Almost Ashore
(Overton Arm, Lake Mead near Echo Bay, Nevada)

    
  
Nickens, Dan - Mar 31,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Just a little water can make for a colorful change in the desert.

Splash of Green
(Overton Arm, Lake Mead near Echo Bay, Nevada)

    
  
Nickens, Dan - Mar 31,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Not the "straight and narrow" way even though the terrain is of biblical proportions.

Not Straight, Narrow
(Lake Mead east of Callville Bay Marina, Nevada)

    
  
Nickens, Dan - Mar 31,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Breakthrough: where water just crosses the lines.

Breakout
(Colorado River near Willow Beach, Arizona)

    
  
Nickens, Dan - Mar 31,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    White relief to brown terrain.

Breaking White
(Colorado River near Willow Beach, Arizona)

    
  
Nickens, Dan - Mar 31,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    It's a bumpy shoreline.

Riverside Ridges
(Colorado River near Willow Beach, Arizona)

    
  
Nickens, Dan - Mar 31,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    It could be an artist's rendering.

Natural by Design
(Colorado River near Willow Beach, Arizona)

    
  
Nickens, Dan - Apr 03,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    An oasis and overnight respite from the sun sand wind and work. It's probably not the best place to get refocused on flight work.

Desert Oasis
(Bullhead City, AZ)

    
  
Carr, Frank  - Apr 13,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    ""Cool Water"" is one of my all-time favorites Dan. Heard it sung live by the Son's of the Pioneers, or what was left of
them (or reconstructed) in a small town in AZ in the 80's.

Also flew to Bullhead City/Laughlin a couple of times, and think I understand the meaning of your comment: ""work?""

Thanks Dan for these awesome photos of our west even tho one or two may be ""Modern Art"". 		    


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