It must be bittersweet to see the Cliff House, where Kellie once worked, closed and abandoned. The pics you pointed out to us, Doug depicted a time where business was booming, and people were enjoying Walker Lake, when it was larger. I did see some houses near the Cliff House, that I'm assuming are still occupied. That boat trip, hopefully seemed very refreshing. The lake is so blue... (Long Live Cecil.) YIKES, finding the debris of vehicles, and the remains of animals at the base of the cliff, is so sad. That cliff is unforgiving. I'm glad you had a YUMMY lunch, and ,of course, those DELICIOUS cookies. Thank you Doug, for taking us along, and sharing info, and experiences with us. What a super time you both must have had. I can see why you would have to be aware of the wind. I love those old pics. This was so enjoyable, Doug. You and Kellie are tops.🌊🛶👏🏻👏🏻🤠
Hello Rhonda! I forgot to mention the little eclectic community of Walker Lake. It is a tiny town next to the southwest shore of the lake. There are interesting people there and the cafe was recently renovated. The Bighorn Crossing had a sword fencing contest that I missed, but my best friend Richard was able to see it (a big turnout). The lake was so alive, teeming with fish, bird life, and water sport good times. There are some fighting to get more water, but there is a great need for farm irrigation too. I wish we could have both. I would have tried to ensure the quality of the lake AND have irrigation water back when the decisions were being made. The city where the original Cliff House is located has also been negatively impacted by poor decisions and is suffering the effects immeasurably. People and greed; a story as old as time. Still, Lands End in San Francisco adjacent to the Pacific along with Walker Lake in Nevada remain beautiful in their own ways regardless. There is a subspecies of Bighorn Sheep on the California side in the Sierra that are endangered; I hope they are able to make a comeback like the bald eagles did! Can get super duper windy near Walker Lake! Dust to boot! The cookies WERE excellent!
@@CalNeva Thanks for that additional info about the area. It explains so much. I'm sorry that the voting has to be an either/or, on such important matters... I hope the Bighorn sheep are able to make a comeback, TOO... such an enjoyable, informative video, Doug... 👏🏻🤠
The bighorn sheep aren’t on a come back. They were planted here and have become a nuisance and will kill fruit trees and anything eatable they can eat! Thankfully we’ve had two years of wet winters and the desert natural growth has taken them up hill not so much bighorn damages lately!
Hi Brother! Beautiful video, I love Walker Lake, ever since I first saw it in the early 1970s I've been fascinated with it, and Pyramid Lake also. I think it's the stark contrast of the water against the desert mountains. I'm amazed at how rusted away those engines are in such a relatively short time, but then again I'm rusting away pretty fast myself ! I can't wait to get back to this area, and I really want to visit the museum! Great trip as always my Brother. 🇺🇸 ❤
Hi my Brother! Whew, busy day today! Could be the car engines were submerged for a time after they were thrashed by the cliff fall. That made me laugh, "...rusting away pretty fast myself!"! Our next trip is up the steep side of .....almost Mt Grant, but not quite...you will have to wait till Thursday Dick to find out for sure! I like your thoughts about Walker Lake...it IS unique!🇺🇲🐐🛶
My good friends the Jones Family have lived at Walker lake for the past 45 years. Art's Band has rocked the area on a regular basis. Nice video, cheers
Great video Doug and Kelly! I’ve driven that road around walker lake into Hawthorne a few times driving from Fernley to Vegas. A beautiful drive ! That’s when I realized (being a Maryland eastern shore resident) how big Nevada is! Thanks as always for taking us along and the next time I drive through I’ll take you and Kellie to dinner on me!😊. Keep the great stuff coming! 👍🏻
I have never been to Walker Lake, but your adventures out there certainly make me want to check it out! So much history there! I liked hearing about the lake and seeing the displays and pictures in the museum. It's crazy to see how high the lake used to be, and it's sad to see the cars that had an accident. I wonder if they had been underwater at sone point? So much to see and do there, I enjoyed you and Kellie taking us along on this one!
Hi National Parks Princess! Your videos are getting better every time! I think the cars were under water for a time. The lesson here is that a beautiful place can be impacted by poor decision making. We do need to keep a watchful eye on our world if we want to enjoy wildlife and clean safe cities. Glad to have you come with us my friend and fellow content creator!
Good Morning, friends! This video was such a treat. Some incredible history and old photos of the beautiful Walker Lake which I really enjoyed seeing! I had no idea there was a Cliff House restaurant at Walker Lake (my dad loved the one in SF and I was not aware that one had closed either), or that there were little cabins they used to rent out to the fishermen. Did you guys encounter the massive Walker Lake spiders on the beach? This time of year is their mating season - yikes. It’s incredible that you guys canoed the lake. For some reason I thought people were not allowed to swim, boat, or fish out there anymore due to munitions in the water. Either way, Walker Lake is so beautiful. It doesn’t get enough credit. I’m living vicariously through these videos. I wish I lived out that way and got to do all those fun things too! You’ve got a great friend in Kellie, she sure is a wealth of knowledge! PS - that lunch spread looks delicious! 😮🤩
Hi G! Happy you enjoyed sharing our trip out to the lake. We saw only one teeny tiny spider, otherwise no bugs whatsoever. The lake is perfect for a canoe (I need to get a longer kayak paddle for it though, I can really push a boat with one of those!). The National Park Service never let the owners renew their lease at the Cliff House in SF, dirty politics ruined my Mom's favorite restaurant. I hope Walker Lake can have fish again AND the Piutes and farmers can still get irrigation too; that would be my vision. It must have been great when Walker Lake still had the fish and wildlife! Have a good one G!
Yeah, dirty politics in SF have ruined a once beautiful city in general. A lot of business have shut down or left as a result, including one of my dad’s other favorite restaurants, the North Beach Restaurant, in Little Italy. I hope your mom has lots of good memories of the Cliff House tucked away in her heart. At any rate, I love these kind of videos of y’all’s. Your outing on Walker Lake was so soothing to watch. I heard that even as recently as 30 years ago, Hawthorne and Walker Lake were booming. I remember visiting Hawthorne 12 years ago on a work trip and even then and there was a fine dining restaurant downtown called the Refinery that was really good. Sadly, it’s no more. People often dismiss Walker Lake as a sleepy pass through town on the way to Vegas. But to me, it’s a giant turquoise gemstone 💎 in the middle of the desert surrounded by gorgeous mountains, with a great community of friendly people. Buona sera to you and Kellie!
@@ginaevlogs I will have to look at the little town the way you do from now on: a gemstone in the desert. Beautiful thought about my mom and her good memories! Many people have good memories about San Francisco and its many neighborhoods before the city's rapid decay, corruption, and decline. I liked the North Beach area too, there used to be a lot of Italians and Italian fisherman there but most seem to have passed on or moved north to Sonoma. I imagine many more will, in fact, be leaving the entire state. I try to keep my channel on the positive side of the trends...we have a lot of Italian farmers that are doing ok in the Yerington area. We should appreciate the vibrant places and decent people, because we never know when time and inevitable changes will take them from us. I want to hold on to the good memories and remain optimistic about the future. Really happy that you enjoyed our trip onto one of your favorite places; Walker Lake!
Looks really nice IV ben one time but only driving by wen I was trucking didn't have time to stop I will like to go and check it out closer thanks so much for sharing this adventure and I didn't see any spiders I dont want to get in the spider bloom
That section of road has some crazy speeding trucks going through there. Had a truck pass us at about 9 at night last winter where the road is a double yellow stripped no passing zone. The truck kicked up something or dropped something onto the road that went right under my right front tire and tore it up. Luckily we got slowed down safely and I was able to find a spot to pull over and replace the destroyed tire with my spare. Not a fun job in the dark with a cold (34 degree) wind blowing. Nice video of the lake. :-)
@@richardl4253 Hi Richard! So true about the semi trucks. Years ago US 95 was to be widened because of a nuclear waste dump. That never went in, so the road never widened, so few passing lanes and impatient drivers. Big carriers started to buy up the smaller trucking companies and the pay dropped drastically for truckers. Americans no longer considered a career as a trucker, so the roads lost all the safe experienced professional drivers. Big corporate carriers now hire foreign drivers at slave labor wages who often can't speak English or interpret the highway signs (although the Sikhs, Russians, Polish, and Moldavian drivers are fairly competent). The second ranking official in the CCP in China belongs to a family in the maritime shipping industry who has a daughter. Mitch McConnel, a Senator from Kentucky, married this younger Chinese woman. The Senator put her in charge of running the transportation industry in the USA. She pushed for the ELD (Electronic Logging Devices) in the semi trucks, instead of the paper logs used in America for decades. The authoritarian bureaucracy and the inexperienced underpaid foreign drivers have put the American motoring public at risk on our highways, such as Nevada's US-95. The drivers are being pushed to drive like maniacs by the cheap paying exploitative mega carriers. The invasive Chinese CCP and corrupt corporate styled electronic logs and monitoring devices have taken away the control of the drivers choices of when, where, how, and how long they can take even a bathroom break regardless of road, weather, and any current safety concerns. The main interstates and highways are now full of dangerously operated trucks who often can't find anywhere to park to get some rest. Currently, after the supply of loads drastically diminished, brokers are assigning dirt cheap loads when they can find any and the safely operated smaller trucking businesses are bankrupting at alarming historic rates. We have many head on collisions of not only class 8 trucks, but motor vehicles of all types that pass on the double yellow line blind curves of Walker Lake and US 95. Consider yourself lucky. 🤠🇺🇸👍
@@CalNeva Yup, professional career with many non-professional drivers. My father is a retired Teamster "parking lot" driver and he used to get pissed at the idiots on the road. I drove with a CDL as part of my job for 17 years, having to quit driving due to a heart problem. I agree that the drivers are driving like maniacs to beat the clock and it should not be like this. I was lucky in that I drove for a government agency and could follow the speed limit, take breaks when needed and did not endanger the public with excessive speed and unsafe driving habits. ;-)
In Nevada, back in the day, people used to get rid of cars by pushing them over cliffs. Have seen them many places. Or, they just abandoned them in the desert, 1930’s-40’s or earlier
I appreciate the historic background! Looked nice and crisp without those pesty shore nats flying around everywhere! I did see the Big Horn cross the highway one on their way down to the lake Do you think they drink the saltier lake water in recent decades?
Hello Tim! Yes, with the cooler weather no bugs! That is a good question about the sheep drinking the water. I would hazard to guess, probably not is my hunch. They are built for the desert and know where all the springs and salt licks are and probably don't need nor want the minerally Lake water. Perhaps someone else would know better than me and I hope they put their comment in. I bet some snow is headed your way; stay warm and dry my friends!
Hi Doug, I saw your inquiry to an earlier comment I made on Kingston and you wanted to know wher I am located up here in the fridged north of Alaska, and the answer is Anchorage. I have also lived on Adak Island, Shemya Island, Healy ( close to Denali Park) Whitier, and Anchorage on 3 different occasions . All that said I still think of Fallon as my western home town. Harry in AK
Hi Harry! Kellie lived in Anchorage for a while. While onboard the guided missile cruiser USS Horne (CG-30) I visited the Aleutian Islands, Bering Sea, Kodiak (Dutch Harbor) went hiking and biked around the island, Juneau, and dropped anchor at the pier in Anchorage. I have another subscriber in Anchorage too.
We could all see how the water levels have dropped, but what is the reason for this drop? Is someone taking the water out of the Walker river before it enters the lake?
@@paulsmodels Hi Paul! Yes, there was a battle over the water many years ago. Instead of making sure there was enough water coming into the lake after allocating for farming irrigation; the farm acreage ended up taking more water than could be replenished. Not enough water made it to the lake so all the fish died from high salinity, most migratory birds such as the white pelican all vanished, the fishing, camping, and outdoor recreational use all died too. I opine it would have been best to keep the lake for both wildlife/ recreation AND farming irrigation. Sadly, we are seeing this same type of mismanagement happening for our neighboring state of California, with, it could be argued, more at stake than just poor water resource management. Corruption and greed goes far back into history, the fall of the Roman Empire could be an example of this as they were builders of extensive water aqueducts.
Wrong! The line of small cabins were yearly residents not just fishing parties. Those places were 100% residents at one time. At one time there were NO rentals available.
One rusty vehicle was prior to the safety railing a love spat turned deadly as the high school aged teen had broken up with her teen lover. She decided death was the way to deal with it. She floored the car and flew off the cliffs edge ending her life leaving family and friends in shock!
It must be bittersweet to see the Cliff House, where Kellie once worked, closed and abandoned. The pics you pointed out to us, Doug depicted a time where business was booming, and people were enjoying Walker Lake, when it was larger. I did see some houses near the Cliff House, that I'm assuming are still occupied. That boat trip, hopefully seemed very refreshing. The lake is so blue... (Long Live Cecil.) YIKES, finding the debris of vehicles, and the remains of animals at the base of the cliff, is so sad. That cliff is unforgiving. I'm glad you had a YUMMY lunch, and ,of course, those DELICIOUS cookies. Thank you Doug, for taking us along, and sharing info, and experiences with us. What a super time you both must have had. I can see why you would have to be aware of the wind. I love those old pics. This was so enjoyable, Doug. You and Kellie are tops.🌊🛶👏🏻👏🏻🤠
Hello Rhonda! I forgot to mention the little eclectic community of Walker Lake. It is a tiny town next to the southwest shore of the lake. There are interesting people there and the cafe was recently renovated. The Bighorn Crossing had a sword fencing contest that I missed, but my best friend Richard was able to see it (a big turnout). The lake was so alive, teeming with fish, bird life, and water sport good times. There are some fighting to get more water, but there is a great need for farm irrigation too. I wish we could have both. I would have tried to ensure the quality of the lake AND have irrigation water back when the decisions were being made. The city where the original Cliff House is located has also been negatively impacted by poor decisions and is suffering the effects immeasurably. People and greed; a story as old as time. Still, Lands End in San Francisco adjacent to the Pacific along with Walker Lake in Nevada remain beautiful in their own ways regardless. There is a subspecies of Bighorn Sheep on the California side in the Sierra that are endangered; I hope they are able to make a comeback like the bald eagles did! Can get super duper windy near Walker Lake! Dust to boot! The cookies WERE excellent!
@@CalNeva Thanks for that additional info about the area. It explains so much. I'm sorry that the voting has to be an either/or, on such important matters... I hope the Bighorn sheep are able to make a comeback, TOO... such an enjoyable, informative video, Doug... 👏🏻🤠
The bighorn sheep aren’t on a come back. They were planted here and have become a nuisance and will kill fruit trees and anything eatable they can eat! Thankfully we’ve had two years of wet winters and the desert natural growth has taken them up hill not so much bighorn damages lately!
Hi Brother! Beautiful video, I love Walker Lake, ever since I first saw it in the early 1970s I've been fascinated with it, and Pyramid Lake also. I think it's the stark contrast of the water against the desert mountains.
I'm amazed at how rusted away those engines are in such a relatively short time, but then again I'm rusting away pretty fast myself !
I can't wait to get back to this area, and I really want to visit the museum!
Great trip as always my Brother. 🇺🇸 ❤
Hi my Brother! Whew, busy day today! Could be the car engines were submerged for a time after they were thrashed by the cliff fall. That made me laugh, "...rusting away pretty fast myself!"! Our next trip is up the steep side of .....almost Mt Grant, but not quite...you will have to wait till Thursday Dick to find out for sure! I like your thoughts about Walker Lake...it IS unique!🇺🇲🐐🛶
Thanks for the video!
The Bidwell expedition 1841 refers to Walker lake in their diary!
How interesting Bobby! I saw the Bidwell Mansion in Chico, CA.
@@CalNevaThey crossed the Sierras just north of Sonora pass…good story!
@@bobbysnow5478 Wow, those folks were as tough as nails back then!
I am so pleased and impressed by the number of great videos you guys produced! Thank you very much! 🤠💥
Hi Tiny Luckee! Long time no see! Thank you for helping to inspire us!
Beautiful area of California/Nevada !
Thank for sharing Doug/Kellie
Welcome Dave, thank you for coming along with us!
Nice Job on this one! I really like this one.
Trying to promote museum in Hawthorne!
My good friends the Jones Family have lived at Walker lake for the past 45 years. Art's Band has rocked the area on a regular basis. Nice video, cheers
Thank you so much, have a great ⛱️ summer!
Love Art and Tammi❤
Thanks again, you two for another very informative and scenic video. Salute.
Thank you Steven; enjoy your day!
Thanks Doug, looks like a fun day!
Welcome Jesse, so glad to have you come along!
Great video Doug and Kelly! I’ve driven that road around walker lake into Hawthorne a few times driving from Fernley to Vegas. A beautiful drive ! That’s when I realized (being a Maryland eastern shore resident) how big Nevada is! Thanks as always for taking us along and the next time I drive through I’ll take you and Kellie to dinner on me!😊. Keep the great stuff coming! 👍🏻
Thank you Carl, we appreciate you!
I have never been to Walker Lake, but your adventures out there certainly make me want to check it out! So much history there! I liked hearing about the lake and seeing the displays and pictures in the museum. It's crazy to see how high the lake used to be, and it's sad to see the cars that had an accident. I wonder if they had been underwater at sone point?
So much to see and do there, I enjoyed you and Kellie taking us along on this one!
Hi National Parks Princess! Your videos are getting better every time! I think the cars were under water for a time. The lesson here is that a beautiful place can be impacted by poor decision making. We do need to keep a watchful eye on our world if we want to enjoy wildlife and clean safe cities. Glad to have you come with us my friend and fellow content creator!
Great video of the lake and community and its history.
Thank you, much appreciated.
Thank you for another great adventure, Dave & Kellie! Leah (over the hill in Mason Valley)
We are almost close enough to be neighbors!
Good Morning, friends! This video was such a treat. Some incredible history and old photos of the beautiful Walker Lake which I really enjoyed seeing! I had no idea there was a Cliff House restaurant at Walker Lake (my dad loved the one in SF and I was not aware that one had closed either), or that there were little cabins they used to rent out to the fishermen. Did you guys encounter the massive Walker Lake spiders on the beach? This time of year is their mating season - yikes. It’s incredible that you guys canoed the lake. For some reason I thought people were not allowed to swim, boat, or fish out there anymore due to munitions in the water. Either way, Walker Lake is so beautiful. It doesn’t get enough credit. I’m living vicariously through these videos. I wish I lived out that way and got to do all those fun things too! You’ve got a great friend in Kellie, she sure is a wealth of knowledge! PS - that lunch spread looks delicious! 😮🤩
Hi G! Happy you enjoyed sharing our trip out to the lake. We saw only one teeny tiny spider, otherwise no bugs whatsoever. The lake is perfect for a canoe (I need to get a longer kayak paddle for it though, I can really push a boat with one of those!). The National Park Service never let the owners renew their lease at the Cliff House in SF, dirty politics ruined my Mom's favorite restaurant. I hope Walker Lake can have fish again AND the Piutes and farmers can still get irrigation too; that would be my vision. It must have been great when Walker Lake still had the fish and wildlife! Have a good one G!
Yeah, dirty politics in SF have ruined a once beautiful city in general. A lot of business have shut down or left as a result, including one of my dad’s other favorite restaurants, the North Beach Restaurant, in Little Italy. I hope your mom has lots of good memories of the Cliff House tucked away in her heart. At any rate, I love these kind of videos of y’all’s. Your outing on Walker Lake was so soothing to watch. I heard that even as recently as 30 years ago, Hawthorne and Walker Lake were booming. I remember visiting Hawthorne 12 years ago on a work trip and even then and there was a fine dining restaurant downtown called the Refinery that was really good. Sadly, it’s no more. People often dismiss Walker Lake as a sleepy pass through town on the way to Vegas. But to me, it’s a giant turquoise gemstone 💎 in the middle of the desert surrounded by gorgeous mountains, with a great community of friendly people. Buona sera to you and Kellie!
@@ginaevlogs I will have to look at the little town the way you do from now on: a gemstone in the desert. Beautiful thought about my mom and her good memories! Many people have good memories about San Francisco and its many neighborhoods before the city's rapid decay, corruption, and decline. I liked the North Beach area too, there used to be a lot of Italians and Italian fisherman there but most seem to have passed on or moved north to Sonoma. I imagine many more will, in fact, be leaving the entire state. I try to keep my channel on the positive side of the trends...we have a lot of Italian farmers that are doing ok in the Yerington area. We should appreciate the vibrant places and decent people, because we never know when time and inevitable changes will take them from us. I want to hold on to the good memories and remain optimistic about the future. Really happy that you enjoyed our trip onto one of your favorite places; Walker Lake!
Looks really nice IV ben one time but only driving by wen I was trucking didn't have time to stop I will like to go and check it out closer thanks so much for sharing this adventure and I didn't see any spiders I dont want to get in the spider bloom
Hi Michael! Glad you stopped by, definitely do visit when no spiders!
Thanks!
Thank you Leah!
That section of road has some crazy speeding trucks going through there. Had a truck pass us at about 9 at night last winter where the road is a double yellow stripped no passing zone. The truck kicked up something or dropped something onto the road that went right under my right front tire and tore it up. Luckily we got slowed down safely and I was able to find a spot to pull over and replace the destroyed tire with my spare. Not a fun job in the dark with a cold (34 degree) wind blowing. Nice video of the lake. :-)
@@richardl4253 Hi Richard! So true about the semi trucks. Years ago US 95 was to be widened because of a nuclear waste dump. That never went in, so the road never widened, so few passing lanes and impatient drivers. Big carriers started to buy up the smaller trucking companies and the pay dropped drastically for truckers. Americans no longer considered a career as a trucker, so the roads lost all the safe experienced professional drivers. Big corporate carriers now hire foreign drivers at slave labor wages who often can't speak English or interpret the highway signs (although the Sikhs, Russians, Polish, and Moldavian drivers are fairly competent). The second ranking official in the CCP in China belongs to a family in the maritime shipping industry who has a daughter. Mitch McConnel, a Senator from Kentucky, married this younger Chinese woman. The Senator put her in charge of running the transportation industry in the USA. She pushed for the ELD (Electronic Logging Devices) in the semi trucks, instead of the paper logs used in America for decades. The authoritarian bureaucracy and the inexperienced underpaid foreign drivers have put the American motoring public at risk on our highways, such as Nevada's US-95. The drivers are being pushed to drive like maniacs by the cheap paying exploitative mega carriers. The invasive Chinese CCP and corrupt corporate styled electronic logs and monitoring devices have taken away the control of the drivers choices of when, where, how, and how long they can take even a bathroom break regardless of road, weather, and any current safety concerns. The main interstates and highways are now full of dangerously operated trucks who often can't find anywhere to park to get some rest. Currently, after the supply of loads drastically diminished, brokers are assigning dirt cheap loads when they can find any and the safely operated smaller trucking businesses are bankrupting at alarming historic rates. We have many head on collisions of not only class 8 trucks, but motor vehicles of all types that pass on the double yellow line blind curves of Walker Lake and US 95. Consider yourself lucky. 🤠🇺🇸👍
@@CalNeva Yup, professional career with many non-professional drivers. My father is a retired Teamster "parking lot" driver and he used to get pissed at the idiots on the road. I drove with a CDL as part of my job for 17 years, having to quit driving due to a heart problem. I agree that the drivers are driving like maniacs to beat the clock and it should not be like this. I was lucky in that I drove for a government agency and could follow the speed limit, take breaks when needed and did not endanger the public with excessive speed and unsafe driving habits. ;-)
@@richardl4253 Amen! 🫏
In Nevada, back in the day, people used to get rid of cars by pushing them over cliffs. Have seen them many places. Or, they just abandoned them in the desert, 1930’s-40’s or earlier
I bet you are correct Jocelyn! Thanx for coming along with us!
That 4 cylinder motor with the rear-axle was from a Model "T" Ford. Must've been there for decades
My friend Tom from Hawthorne knows the man that drove one of those cars off the cliff DUI and walked away from it after climbing back up the cliff!
I appreciate the historic background!
Looked nice and crisp
without those pesty shore nats flying around everywhere!
I did see the Big Horn cross the highway one on their way down to the lake
Do you think they drink the saltier lake water in recent decades?
Hello Tim! Yes, with the cooler weather no bugs! That is a good question about the sheep drinking the water. I would hazard to guess, probably not is my hunch. They are built for the desert and know where all the springs and salt licks are and probably don't need nor want the minerally Lake water. Perhaps someone else would know better than me and I hope they put their comment in. I bet some snow is headed your way; stay warm and dry my friends!
Hi Doug, I saw your inquiry to an earlier comment I made on Kingston and you wanted to know wher I am located up here in the fridged north of Alaska, and the answer is Anchorage. I have also lived on Adak Island, Shemya Island, Healy ( close to Denali Park) Whitier, and Anchorage on 3 different occasions . All that said I still think of Fallon as my western home town. Harry in AK
Hi Harry! Kellie lived in Anchorage for a while. While onboard the guided missile cruiser USS Horne (CG-30) I visited the Aleutian Islands, Bering Sea, Kodiak (Dutch Harbor) went hiking and biked around the island, Juneau, and dropped anchor at the pier in Anchorage. I have another subscriber in Anchorage too.
Nice
Thanx
We drove by it in 85. It was almost surreal how desolate it is out there.
From Yerington. New to me.
Hello Norman, glad to have you along!
We could all see how the water levels have dropped, but what is the reason for this drop? Is someone taking the water out of the Walker river before it enters the lake?
@@paulsmodels Hi Paul! Yes, there was a battle over the water many years ago. Instead of making sure there was enough water coming into the lake after allocating for farming irrigation; the farm acreage ended up taking more water than could be replenished. Not enough water made it to the lake so all the fish died from high salinity, most migratory birds such as the white pelican all vanished, the fishing, camping, and outdoor recreational use all died too. I opine it would have been best to keep the lake for both wildlife/ recreation AND farming irrigation. Sadly, we are seeing this same type of mismanagement happening for our neighboring state of California, with, it could be argued, more at stake than just poor water resource management. Corruption and greed goes far back into history, the fall of the Roman Empire could be an example of this as they were builders of extensive water aqueducts.
Also paddle wise Kialoa paddles make all kinds of good products.not cheap but worth the money
Good pointer on that Casey...I need to get a large double ended kayak paddle, that's what works best for me. I will check them out, Thanx!
Doug You need a Remote Mic Hard to hear you away from the camera
Thank you John, I think I will try to get a remote mic.
Wrong! The line of small cabins were yearly residents not just fishing parties. Those places were 100% residents at one time. At one time there were NO rentals available.
Thanks for setting the record straight!
Nice hat lol
Thank you, it's a handmade in USA, got's to support the home jobs!
Those car parts were 20 feet underwater
Good point Clydene!
One rusty vehicle was prior to the safety railing a love spat turned deadly as the high school aged teen had broken up with her teen lover. She decided death was the way to deal with it. She floored the car and flew off the cliffs edge ending her life leaving family and friends in shock!
I believe it, teenagers are so impulsive.
U trying to tell me my truck should be there
Avoid spider season at Walker!
@@OwO---Drunk_Seulgi---OwO Yes so true. Back in the day when the lake was alive there were fish and birds that would help check those spiders. 🐟🦆🦢🐦⬛
Doug
secretsssssssss so menyyyyy
So true Rebecca! 🇺🇸👍