The Most Expensive Lake Powell lunch!

Over the Labor Day weekend, Kent and I visited Lake Powell. When we woke up on Friday morning we had a great idea to go to Antelope Point. (For those of you who don't know Lake Powell it is 100 miles away in a boat)!

We had such great water to glide on, it was like butter. We refueld the boat in Dangling Rope

and then headed for Antelope Point. People are right, it has changed. We had a great lunch of pizza and salad (very fresh) and then got back in the boat to head for Bullfrog.

Once again it was butter-water... seldom found in Lake Powell, especially in the channel.

I got hot and wanted to swim. We stopped the boat, swam, layed in the sun and had a nap

for a short while. We had trouble getting the boat to start. Kent did some things and got

it going and I was so happy because we still had 50 miles to go. All of a suddden we hear ZINGGGGGGGGG!!!!! NOT A GOOD SOUND! Our out drive or as we later learned, our gimble

ring went out on us, we were stranded.

We tried to get someone to tow us back but all we were offered was food and water. Do you know how many people we haved towed on the lake? Our karma was not working. We called in for help and they said the park service would come and get us but not the boat. So we decided to stay the night in the boat and wait for help to come in the morning. We had almost everything we needed, a flashlight would have been nice but we had a candle, and we were able to use our camper enclosure for the 3rd time in 12 years. By morning all I really wanted was a toothbrush and wa-la we had bought a small shaving kit for Kent at the store at Antelope Island and it had a toothbrush!!!!

Finally morning comes and our tow arrives.

So far lunch has cost us about $1,050 but we are not done. For your information the going tow rate is $276 per hour.

We did enjoy staying in the houseboat at the slip Saturday night and Sunday before heading home on Monday.

We really thought we could just fix our boat but we found out the best way to fix an old boat is to buy a new one. Do I regret our trip to Antelope Pointe...naw, the pizza was really good!!