We took a boat tour of parts of Lake Ouachita. This is one of many marinas found along this lengthy lake. Around 80 miles long. There are no houses or commercial establishments because of Corps of Engineers owns the water and land around it. The lake is 40,000 acres and has a dam for hydro electric power. The lake was formed when the Ouachita River was dammed in 1945. The dammed area had lots of mountains and valleys so there are many bays and hundreds if islands.
Our guide (on the right) was interesting and very informative. She and her family live near Three Sisters Springs in the state park. Our day was overcast and very cool.
There was about 14 people on the "barge tour". We are heading toward the marina where we left from. Since the whole lake and surrounding area are owned by the Corps of Engineers, the marinas are all built and owned by the Corps, they are leased out to the operators. All the house boat, pontoon and power boat slips have covered docks, and the sailboats are out in the open because of the masts. Because there is limited dock space, there are moorings for those who can't get slips.
This is an example of the folding of novaculite and sandstone layers that occurred when pressures within the earth heaved the land above it up. No granite and limestone like is all over Wisconsin.
There are so many areas of exposed rock in different designs it is almost beyond imagination to realize the complexity of the creation process. Here the water action ate away the softer parts of the rock and started caves.
A particularly interesting exposed rock formation.
Here the formation pushed the rock up so high that the top tipped over in a fold.
This is an area where the heaving of the layers took on more of a vertical form
Click on this picture to expand it and you will see what is called "checkerboarding". The rock broke up in very consistent pieces. There are actually two different sections of the rock showing the same effect.
We took a boat tour of parts of Lake Ouachita. This is one of many marinas found along this lengthy lake. Around 80 miles long. There are no houses or commercial establishments because of Corps of Engineers owns the water and land around it. The lake is 40,000 acres and has a dam for hydro electric power. The lake was formed when the Ouachita River was dammed in 1945. The dammed area had lots of mountains and valleys so there are many bays and hundreds if islands.
Our guide (on the right) was interesting and very informative. She and her family live near Three Sisters Springs in the state park. Our day was overcast and very cool.
There was about 14 people on the "barge tour". We are heading toward the marina where we left from. Since the whole lake and surrounding area are owned by the Corps of Engineers, the marinas are all built and owned by the Corps, they are leased out to the operators. All the house boat, pontoon and power boat slips have covered docks, and the sailboats are out in the open because of the masts. Because there is limited dock space, there are moorings for those who can't get slips.
This is an example of the folding of novaculite and sandstone layers that occurred when pressures within the earth heaved the land above it up. No granite and limestone like is all over Wisconsin.
There are so many areas of exposed rock in different designs it is almost beyond imagination to realize the complexity of the creation process. Here the water action ate away the softer parts of the rock and started caves.
A particularly interesting exposed rock formation.
Here the formation pushed the rock up so high that the top tipped over in a fold.
This is an area where the heaving of the layers took on more of a vertical form
Click on this picture to expand it and you will see what is called "checkerboarding". The rock broke up in very consistent pieces. There are actually two different sections of the rock showing the same effect.
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