I told Leon to get in the car after dinner. Drove down the street to the convenience store and bought a couple of Klondike Bars. Then we went down to the lake, sat on top of a picnic table, ate our 300 calorie ice cream and watched the waves.
The "surf" was "crashing" on the shore and if I tried hard I could imagine the waves at Race Point. It was actually a nice sound because the lake is usually very calm. The rhythm of the waves was nice to hear.
And it was 10 degrees cooler there than at the house.
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| Driftwood left in dead trees drowned by high water levels |
7 comments:
From some pic you posted years ago, I thought your lake was just a pond, like the size of a football field. But that's really a decent size lake, I see from Google Maps. And it even has waves!
Perfect soundtrack for your afternoon reverie.
Get out your boogie boards! And 10 degrees cooler. What a pleasure.
Map is a bit deceiving. The scale of 1000 feet in the bottom right corner puts it in perspective.
Sounds like a perfect summer evening!
I measured the biggest part of the lake at half a mile wide and a mile and a half long. You could do a Cypress Gardens ski show there, easy.
No ski shows at Cochiti Lake...it's a "no alcohol" - "no wake lake" for reasons I'm not entirely sure of but likely due to the Army Corps of Engineers not wanting to put up with rowdy boaters, or shallowness (maximum depth of 95ft but extremely variable) or trying to keep an air of civility and peace. Sail boats, kayaks, etc. are permitted. Cochiti is a pond in comparison to lakes in the North and East. And ALL of the trees that were on the far side of the lake are now dead because of Texas. The Army corps had to hold vast amounts of water in the lake last spring and summer because of an agreement or disagreement about water rights on the Rio Grande down Texas way. There is actually large pieces of driftwood stuck 25-30 feet high in the branches of the dead trees. (See new photos added)
Amazing photos! I didn't think about variable depth, that would sure make a difference in the size of the *usable* lake.
No booze? Bummer. Might as well stay home, then.
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