Going to the Lake Part II

Casey and I came home from Lake Powell early to work, so to make up for it we decided to go to boating at Sand Hollow this week. We are poor college students so our form of transportation on the water was a little more creative this time. We went to a furniture store dumpster to get some cardboard then to Wal-Mart for some plastic and duct tape, spent a few hours with a razorblade and walah! A floating cardboard masterpiece! We actually made it a few weeks ago and had been trying to find a time to go down and the timing was perfect since I was sad about missing some Powell time.As you can see it floated really well! At first... :) We made it all the way to the island you can see in the background. Turns out the island is bigger than we thought. We hiked all the way around it jumping off all the good cliffs we could see. It was so hot! The water (which was quite warm also) was such a relief for our feet that were frying on the sandstone. By the time we got to the island we had gathered quite a bit of water in the bottom of the boat and it was getting kind of saggy so we were a little worried that our boat wouldn't survive the return journey.

but it did! The picture below is Casey relaxing in our boat after we made it back to shore. Notice the condition of the bottom. The carboard was completely falling apart! We were basically floating in a plastic bag that had holes in it. haha. It was great.

We decided to see how long it would float so we just stayed in it near the shore. It lasted another good half hour!

When it finally went under there was simply no salvaging it. It completely turned to shreds! It was quite a challenge carrying the water logged cardboard (we'd put in at least three layers) and the giant plastic covering to the dumpster. So heavy! It's a good thing Casey is buff. :)