Where we live in Southern Utah it can get quite warm in the summer, but we can quickly escape to the high country and cool off. Saturday, we decided to go exploring for two lakes, Dead & Porcupine, that we recently discovered on a Game & Fish map. They are both located off a road that has no signage that would alert anyone to their existence - which meant, of course, that we needed to go find them! When we arrived it was a cloudy 65 degrees, but soon the sun came out making for a perfect day.
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| Colorful wild flowers along HWY 143 |
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| Dead Lake ... what a name for such a pretty place! |
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| Nice & cool .... just the perfect temperature for us. |
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| Wild geranium |
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| Fungi from the recent rains |
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| Dead Lake certainly isn't dead ... it's alive with Rainbow trout |
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| We hope to come back in the Fall when the aspens are changing |
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| Porcupine Lake |
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| Kent was excited to catch this Brook trout at Porcupine Lake |
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| We had the whole place to ourselves on a Saturday! |
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| One more to go and he'll reach his limit for the day |
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| Sunday dinner, three brookies and a rainbow |
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| Another view of the lake from the other side |
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| Here we are ... enjoying the great outdoors! |
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| This creek flows into Porcupine Lake |
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| This butterfly was enjoying the flowers |
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| I can almost hear the song, "The Fishin' Hole" from the Andy Griffith Show |
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| The road we traveled had very little "mooving" traffic on it |
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| Brian Head Peak, you can drive to the top |
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| We had to stop and check out the interesting formations in Parowan Canyon |
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| Looks like a tunnel up ahead |
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| We passed through to the other side |
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| Iron oxide streaks in the sandstone |
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| We spotted this horny toad at the end of our journey |
