A photo story

A marina on Lake Mead

I looked down on a marina at Hemenway Harbor on Lake Mead, near Hoover Dam, in December 2023. I was up on a rocky desert hillside, with gravel and dry brush in the foreground and a dark slope dropping away toward the water. White boats were tied up in the slips behind a breakwater, and islands sat out on the lake under a gray, overcast sky. It was around 58, with a light breeze around 3 miles an hour.

Lake Mead is the reservoir formed by Hoover Dam on the Colorado River, and it's the largest reservoir in the United States by capacity. This was in Lake Mead National Recreation Area. The water looked calm from up there, and the boats looked small against the wide lake and the hills beyond.