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The ferry from Bullfrog Marina to Halls Crossing used to go thru this passway, now high and dry.

Water again spills through Cathedral in the Desert, uncovered as Lake Powell hit its lowest point since 1969. Covered again with a few weeks, when well the Cathedral be revealed again?

On Tapestry Wall at Warm Springs Canyon, iron and manganese form windblown dust created a patina called desert varnish. This varnish is starting to cover up the calcite and restore the canyon to its original glory.

Rock in foreground white from calcite marks the high water mark of Lake Powell at Padre Bay. Well the water level ever reach this high again?

Receding water left rippled sand dune near Clear Creek off the Escalante River. This area was covered by rising water by the time I left.

Reflections of red rock and azure sky pattern the flow in Willow Creek.

Two-toned cliffs near Clear Creek canyon along the Escalante River-a major tributary of Lake Powell-display pale calcite deposits left by water that once lapped the rock.

Half full or half empty? Some conservationist want Lake Powell to be completely drained, allowing plants and wildlife to thrice throughout a restored Glen Canyon.

The ghostly arms of cottonwoods emerge from Halls Creek Bay.

A Dry Red Season-Five years of drought lowered Lake Powell to its lowest levels since Jimi Hendrix played at Woodstock and Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. With the water down 2/3rds of its capacity, the canyon that was flooded, Glen Canyon,…