Coralville Reservoir

Just like everyone else and his brother, (I even saw my grandma and grandpa Quint tootling along out there!) we made a trip out to the Coralville Res to see the water in danger of flooding over the spillway. It was bumper to bumper traffic.
The boys couldn't resist taking these half-finished stairs down to the fossil area. Normally there isn't water here. This fossil bed was uncovered in the flood of '93.

This road curves over to the left and leads to where that there big water comes gushing out of the dam. (That's the technical term for it.)

Lots of people were climbing the spillway and the boys begged to be able to join them, but we both felt it was too dangerous and too much effort!
View from the top of the dam, looking down at where the beach used to be, you can just see the flat tops of the bathrooms:
There's an orange triangular top of a shelter through the trees. Looking the other way, down at the campgrounds and "where all that there big water comes gushing out." Why is there always one idiot who can't seem to follow the rules like everybody else?! His dog was trying to put on the brakes; he obviously had more sense than his owner. And just in case some of you were wondering, (and I know some of you were,) yes, Max was there too. Just in case you were curious.