DAY 77: TONTO BASIN

*picture of me in Roosevelt Lake, and a picture of the Roosevelt Lake Bridge left.

jon and i left tucson yesterday morning on what turned out to be a pretty amazing weekend get-a-way. Roosevelt Lake. It's up by Globe (which turned out to be just slightly larger than i i thought the city would be which was cool...). Roosevelt Dam built in something like 1908. Over a hundred years old and part of the CAP (Central Arizona Project); a water distributing/conservation movement begun a while back.

The lake was huge, firstly. It's within the Tonto National Forest, the Tonto Basin. It was cool. We camped at Windy Hill which turned out to be a peninsula which we could walk down to the water on all sides and our tent and site was located right at the far end. Water surrounding us and we had kayaks and we swam. Had a pretty good time! It was so nice to get out of tucson and to be at a REAL lake! One so close to Tucson. A very cool... I guess... discovery. Relaxing (though i really am exhausted...) and unique. Yay!