{"id":619,"date":"2007-06-03T20:37:33","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T00:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/?p=619"},"modified":"2007-06-03T20:37:33","modified_gmt":"2007-06-04T00:37:33","slug":"renting-a-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/?p=619","title":{"rendered":"Renting a boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve followed this blog for over a year, or read the archives, you may recall <a href=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/2006\/05\/jetskiing_lake_mead.html\">our last experience with Lake Mead<\/a>.  Brett and I rented jetskis on a windy day and were basically flogged by the lake until we crawled out of it, bruised and missing a few things.<\/p>\n<p>This year we vowed to try again.  We have rented a 22-foot jet boat so that Eleanor and Emma can join us.  Brett flew in this morning and we picked up the boat in the afternoon.  We&#8217;ll take our first ride on the lake Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Renting a boat is much harder than renting a car, renting a 28-foot box truck, or running for President of the United States.  At least when running for President you don&#8217;t have to sign half a dozen liability releases and watch a tedious 30-minute safety video.  (But maybe that&#8217;s not a bad idea &#8212; it might cut down on the crop of publicity-seeking candidates.)  We endured the process and at the end I think we basically agreed to buy the boat if we ding it.<\/p>\n<p>That may be a small challenge. Lake Mead is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/archive\/lame\/lowwater.html\">down to its lowest level in 40 years<\/a>.  There are islands poking up that we didn&#8217;t see last year, and some shallow areas are now dry.  The low level is quite visible as a white &#8220;bathtub ring&#8221; on the rocks.  The white is caused by minerals deposited on the rocks, not by bleaching as a lot of people guess.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/Lake%20Mead%20islands.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Lake Mead islands.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/Lake%20Mead%20islands-thumb.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the canyons are very deep and still run 300-400 feet.  That&#8217;s also where the nicest boating can be found, so we&#8217;ll concentrate some time there and try to avoid the various submerged objects (ferries, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indepthconsulting.com\/B29\/B29Lost.htm\">airplanes<\/a>, even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clui.org\/clui_4_1\/lotl\/v28\/b.html\">an entire town<\/a>) that Lake Mead normally covers.  With some luck, our day on the lake will be much more successful than last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve followed this blog for over a year, or read the archives, you may recall our last experience with Lake Mead. Brett and I rented jetskis on a windy day and were basically flogged by the lake until we crawled out of it, bruised and missing a few things. This year we vowed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}