| 04/02/2011 Trip Notes: While my cousin from New York state was visiting us on his return trip from wintering in New Mexico, we decided to get up early and head over to the Hoover Dam for some early morning picture taking and a tour of the dam. Arriving just before sunrise, and before any of the day’s tourist crowd showed up, we caught a herd of Desert Bighorn Sheep grazing (Fig. 01) in one of the ravines on the south side of the dam. Sensing and not liking out presence, they immediately climbed up out of the ravine, crossed the road and scampered up the cliff-side (Fig. 02) along the southern edge of the dam. Once they reached the top of the ridge (Fig. 03) and no longer felt threatened, they spent the next several minutes quietly observing us (Fig. 04) before disappearing down the back side. |
