Wooo, it's 45 degrees!

Chilly this morning!  Not to rub it in.  We did extend one day, so we're leaving early this morning to claim our unclaimed campsite at Elk Creek on Blue Mesa Reservoir up near Gunnison, before we lose it.  They will hold it automatically one day until checkout time so we've got to be there before noon.
I helped our neighbor diagnose his bad converter in his Class C, then after we packed a lunch and took a ride, initially to see the Rio Grande Reservoir.  On the way we went by a beautiful little lake, Rock Canyon.

We did finally get to Rio Grande reservoir, and if a lake can be unappealing, it was.  Steep, rocky sides, low water, pouring rain had us turn around and look for another road.  By on the way out, we found a beaver pond with beautiful red water lilies of some kind.  We had never seen red ones before.

Then out to the main road.  Jan found a little road into Seepage Lake that looked interesting, so off we went.  It was a narrow trail through some woods and then out into what must have once been Seepage Lake.  Bone dry now, and from the looks of it, dry for some time.  But it made for a lovely drive all by ourselves.

Seepage Lake?

Pretty dry

The road after it went through the meadow meandered up into the woods so we kept going until we couldn't go any further.  The trail just ended, but there looked to be kind of a path, so we took it to a small pond.

End of the trail

  It wasn't on our map, but later on Google Earth we figured out it is called Ghost Lake.  It kind of looked like it was formed by a big explosion or maybe a meteor impact.  I'm sure it was none of that but it was fun to speculate.  There was a family of ducks there, otherwise it was uninhabited.  The silence is awesome when you get into the back country.  We love it!

Ghost Lake

Another picture to prove Jan was here

Duck family

On the way out, we saw a little two track that headed over to a cliff face, so we went over.  It looked like someone had cut a hole in the cliff for what reason we don't know.

Hole in the rock

It ended up being a pleasant day.  We got back and got ready to go early this morning.  Had it absolutely pour just as we needed to grill, that's always the way, right?