What a difference in the water level from our first winter here in Elephant Butte. When we were here in 2008 the water level on the butte was all the way up to the top white line. Now you can see three layers of water lines. This one marina had two long docks to get out to it. Now you can see one of the docks is totally out of the water. They keep letting water out of the dam here to feed it to the farmers down river who have chili pepper fields and pecan tree farms that need water.
Friends that live here year round said that on the major holidays this summer 90,000 people converged on this little town to enjoy the lake. With so little water left its hard to imagine thousands of boats, houseboats, sailboats and jet skis out there. We've been here for almost two weeks and the weather has been perfect. Sunny and low 80's with no wind is hard to beat. Yuma is still in the mid 90's and we should be "enjoying" the heat there by the end of the week.
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