Oh Boy, Here it Comes...

After great weather yesterday, today was back to back to the crummy stuff.  This morning was clear and warm when we got up, but by mid morning the clouds had started to come in and the wind picked up.  The prediction is for rain later this evening and into tomorrow morning, so we packed up and took a "scenic" drive along the west shore of Lake Mead.

The lake is huge, of course, with many square miles of surface area and large expanses of shoreline. This is one of the smaller of the boat launch areas at Boulder Beach.  The water level is down quite a bit as you can see along the hills in the pic, which has left the concrete boat launch ramp about 1/2 mile long now, and a 100 yards wide.  It can easily handle many summer boat launches, but I'm sure it's still a zoo once the weather warms up.

We drove into Henderson, NV, to get a cup of coffee and check out the "Henderson Strip", a mini-version of the Vegas Strip.  Not much to recommend it unless you're into casinos.  Most of the joints in this area are a couple notches below their famous cousins farther to the north.

As it began to get dark, we completed our loop drive by driving over the Pat Tillman memorial bridge at Hoover Dam.  Unfortunately it was too late for us to stop and take pics, so we'll try for that tomorrow.  We did get a cool pic just as the sun set over Lake Mead: