This is what Scottsbluff National Monument might look like if it were surrounded by water.
For comparison...here is a picture of Scottsbluff National Monument.
The first picture is a rock formation on Banks Lake called Steamboat Rock (we think this is Steamboat Rock anyway). We spent the weekend celebrating Joel's birthday on Banks Lake near Grand Coulee Dam. On Friday evening, we walked across the street from our motel to the dam which is the largest in the United States (5th largest in the world...the largest currently being completed in China). There we got to see a laser light show shown on the water rushing over the dam's cement wall. It gave a history of the Columbia River (3rd largest river in the United States) and why the dam was built and it's past and current contributions.
Saturday morning we were on Banks Lake by 6:00 am. This was after Joel charmed the convenience store lady and she gave him a birthday donut.
Joel eating his birthday donut.
The weather was beautiful. The lake was calm. The scenery was interesting. Not near as beautiful as some other places we've fished in Washington and Idaho but being from western Nebraska, we could appreciate the subtle beauty in the cliff and rock formations formed years ago.
We didn't do too well fishing. Our grand catch was one perch and a 17" large mouth bass.
