Thursday evening, it started to rain lightly. On Friday morning, it was still a very light rain, but we managed to get everything packed up. We arrived at Sand Hollow a bit after 9, hoping we could get first in line for a walk-upsite. The website said there should be 4 sites coming open. Five trailers had arrived before us, but they all decided to dry camp instead of waiting for a site to come open. Another couple came in behind us, looking for a site as well, but we were first. Unfortunately, the people in the sites have until 2pm to extend their stays. About an hour after we came in, we got called to the desk, as someone had phoned to cancel their reservation for today and tomorrow, so we got a site for two days. The rain turned out to be beneficial. It even stopped before we got setup.
We saw a few rabbits near our site.
In the afternoon, we walked down to the restaurant and rentals by the beach at the south end of the reservoir, then back along the edge of the reservoir, watching diving ducks and fishermen.
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| High water |
Early evening, the power went out. Wechecked and other people had the same issue so walked down to the office, to find out the whole park was out. Fortunately, it only took about half an hour before it was back on.
Saturday, we drove the loop around the south end of the reservoir to look at the primitive camping, and the sand-pit, slightly more formal camping. We saw at least one trailer up to its axles in the sand. Not a good sign, although there were lots of trailers on the sand around the edges of the reservoir. Once we got back to the trailer, we walked across the north end of the reservoir, over some red rocks, across the waterfall that is created where water is pumped into the reservoir from the Virgin River, for storage here, and also into Quail Creek Reservoir, higher up the valley against the hills. The water is stored for St. George and area usage.
Sunday we got up at a reasonable hour, and headed north to Provo. We got into Utah Lake State Park got set up around 2:00. Just as we finished getting set up, it started to rain lightly. The weather in Provo was fairly windy, so we only stayed for three days.
We walked along the Provo River again, but the wind made it pretty cool. There was a flock of yellow-headed blackbirds between us and the lake. The one below was kind enough to look for food on the grass near us.
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| Yellow-headed Blackbird |
Wednesday, we headed for Fort Hall Casino, where we stayed on the way south. We didn't unhook, just watched some curling.
Thursday, we drove to Helena. We stopped in Dillon at Safeway to redeem some fuel points. There were some interesting clouds in the area.
On the route from Whitehall to Boulder, we saw a herd of antelopes and some cranes, but didn't get a chance to get a picture.
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