Monday, April 4, 2011 - Echo Bay Campground, Lake Mead NV
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Gathering, Great Blue Heron, Burro Creek AZ, March 28, 2011
It's a short flight home
The herons are gathering nesting materials from plants and shrubs growing right on the craggy cliff face within a few hundred feet of the nest.
Night camp
Site 36 - Echo Bay Lower Campground, Overton Arm, Lake Mead Recreation Area, Lake Mead NV
- No Verizon cell phone and Broadband service are available here.
- Locate Echo Bay Lower Campground on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
A Voyage and a Harbor
The native American was forced westward by the young escaping the limits of east coast villages that had been established only a generation or two earlier by parents escaping the limits of European villages. From then on, whether seeking a whale, rafting with Huck Finn, easy riding with Peter Fonda, or next week in Cancun, there has been a strong belief in America that happiness lies somewhere else. And yet as we find freedom we also rediscover loneliness. As geographer Yi-Fu Tuan says, we require both shelter and venture. We need freedom and support, silence and cacophony, the vast and distant but also the warm and near, a voyage and a harbor, the great adventure and the hobbit hole. Much of the iconography of our times gives little sense of this. Instead, the individual is treated as a self-sufficient, self-propelled vehicle moving across a background of other things, other places, and other people.