"Where in North America?" --- Section IX

[Mark Sedenquist]

Is this the trail head for....the Lower Butler Wash petroglyph panel on the San Juan River?

Or I guess it could be the pull-in spot for the River House, which is one of the largest, most famous, and most well-visited Anasazi ruins along the river -- but the beach looks all wrong for that place....

[Twilight]

This is not a trail head, nor, to my knowledge, is this an Anasazi site.

[Mark Sedenquist]

Am I getting warmer for the location?

Mark

[Twilight]

Am I getting warmer for the location?

Mark

It's not the San Juan. I'll echo what I said before and tell you that you had the right area, AKA, it's the Colorado.

[Mark Sedenquist]

OK, so it's the Colorado.... and it has to be where its calm enough to accomodate a pontoon boat. The Delores River drops a lot of water into the channel -- so that's possible...., but there must be some significance to the rest of your clue.....

hmmm

looking

Mark

[Mark Sedenquist]

I'm officially stumped -- I don't know the area well enough to charge ahead without more direction....

Mark

[Mark Sedenquist]

This really looks like the downstream take-out coming out of Cataract Canyon -- which is the last place that a pontoon boat can tie up. So, it is the farthest north section of Lake Powell -- beyond that.... I need a clue or two.

Mark

[Twilight]

OK, I'll throw a clue out

The unique properties of this spot is why it's notable, and is what brings it's main annual visitors.

[Mark Sedenquist]

Well, that would seem to rule out a hot spring, perhaps some kind of critter is hatched born here each year?

hmmm

[Foy]

I got caught in one back in 1995 that kept us "locked down" in a truck stop parking lot for 48 hours -- the roads effectively were underwater and conditions were pretty darn wet. Wow, 4th successive high tide? Yeah, that's like a slow-motion tsunami....

Have fun!

Mark

According to the neighbors, we're dry but surrounded by the Bay. ETD 1000 hrs 13 Nov w/ 2 gensets, fuel, chain saws, and associated gear. You can't keep a deisel-fueled Redneck down.More later,
Foy