2000-06-26 Antelope Island to Reflection Canyon 2000-06-27 Reflection Canyon 2000-06-28 Reflection Canyon to Dungeon Canyon 2000-06-29 Dungeon Canyon to Labyrinth Canyon 2000-06-30 Labyrinth Canyon to Wahweap 2000-07-01 Dam Tour

Day 4 - Wednesday, June 28, 2000

On Wednesday, we pulled the houseboat out of Reflection Canyon and started making our way back down the lake toward Wahweap.  Our first stop was Rainbow Bridge again, since Roger, Robert, and Sean hadn't seen it yet.  It took us a good bit longer to get over to Rainbow Bridge than it had taken on the previous morning, because the top speed of the houseboat was only about 7-10 MPH.  As we were leaving Forbidding Canyon, a tour boat sped past us on the way into the narrow gorge, kicking up a 5-foot swell that came over our bow.  I was fortunately able to dive for the sliding glass door and close it just in time to prevent the wake from completely swamping us, but we still had a lot of mopping to do.  #$@* tourists!

Our next stop was Dungeon Canyon, a couple of hours downriver on the south shore of the lake at Mile 38.  Dungeon is a relatively short, wide canyon and offers many easy beach anchorages for houseboats, yet we had the canyon pretty much to ourselves.  Sean and I spent most of the rest of the afternoon hiking up Dungeon Canyon, while the rest of the group did some waterskiing.

That night, a biblical plague of gnats descended on the boat, so thick that you couldn't avoid swallowing one with every breath.  We had to keep the lights out and the windows closed for the whole night.