Saylorville Lake

I spent an hour or two driving around different parts of Saylorville Lake, trying to find photo ops.

Saylorville lake seems almost like a large pond to me, since you can see the opposite shore from anywhere.  Growing up in the Milwaukee area, we spent a lot of time at Lake Michigan.  I’ve been to Lake Michigan in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Michigan.

This is the wildest I’ve ever seen the tides here.  The lake is probably larger at the moment due to the flooding.

 Wide angle affects and Dave Hill affect.

Plenty of land between Saylorville Lake and Des Moines hasn’t been sold out to developers yet.

View from atop the Saylorville Dam

The outlet of the Dam, where it becomes the Des Moines River again.

I still haven’t figured out how the water coming out maintains a height much lower than the river.  Unless it’s an illusion, the water rises maybe 15 feet or so from the pipe to the river.  The sheer power of the water coming out is amazing.