[Leica] Lake Berryessa

[abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)]

Thanks for your thoughts and recollection, Howard.

Monticello Dam is actually concrete but, yes, there is a glory hole to
be "enjoyed". During the last severe drought the lake level dropped
well below it so it looked like a large golf tee sitting in the lake.
In fact the lake level dropped so low that it revealed the foundations
of the drowned town of Monticello. I wish I had gone down to see it.

At least now there are barriers across the lake so you stand a last
chance before you're sucked down into the bowels of the dam and then
become muskrat and beaver fodder in Putah Creek.

This panorama was taken at the opposite end of the lake, all the way
to the north and is shot looking south.

Adam


On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 21:54:47 -0500 (GMT-05:00),
hlritter@mindspring.com <hlritter@mindspring.com> wrote:
> Lovely image, Adam. Reminds me of the three years I lived in Vacaville, 
> about 20 miles away, 1975-'78. I was a medical resident at the Air Force 
> medical center at Travis AFB. Learned to waterski on Berryessa.
> 
> BTW, did you see the "Glory Hole", or something like that as we called it, 
> being the top of the 300-foot-high standpipe with funneled opening? It's 
> located down by the earthen dam, and I believe serves to drain overflow so 
> no spillway is needed. Gave me the shivers every time I saw it. Looks 
> absolutely dreadful when you imagine being dumped out of your boat and 
> drifting, faster than you can swim, inexorably toward the sucking maw....  
> MOMMY! MOMMY!
> 
> But I'm all better now.... I just won't be able to look at your panorama 
> again.
> 
> --howard
>