What Man Once Made - Nature Took Back

 As a follow-up to yesterday's posting, Dixie and I went on a hike to the boat launch, or at least what was the boat launch many years ago. And as is the case with all man-made but abandoned facilities I got the same sorry feeling, that says "I wish this hadn't happened".

The entire lake, once the biggest man-made lake in the US, had disappeared to the tiny fraction of 4.3% of its former size. 

The concrete boat launch, now ending on dry ground, must have seen considerable act ivity once, the huge paved parking lot being a witness of it. The asphalt, was now broken up, though one can still see faint lines for the parking spots, and I found two signs grown in, one of them reminding boat owners to clean mud and debris from the boat before and after launch.

Today, this is looking much worse

This part of New Mexico had a lot of rain weeks ago which actually made the lake water rise with 0.3%. That rain caused disastrous flooding in some parts of the State which tells us how much rain would really be needed to refill the lake. It will never happen.