Table Rock Dam in Branson, MO

Friday, May 27, 2016

It has been raining for most of the day for 3 days now.  About 3:30pm this afternoon, it was not raining and we decided to take a drive.  Of course, it is still an overcast day.

This is MO-465 on the north side of Branson.  It shows how hilly and lush it is all around here.  We have not experienced so much humidity in a long time.  My hair is even curly.  Hee Hee

We decided to go visit the Dewey Short Table Rock Corp of Engineers Visitor Center.  It was very informative about the area before the dam was built and the building of the dam.  Table Rock Lake is an artificial lake or reservoir in The Ozarks of southwestern Missouri and northwestern Arkansas. The lake is impounded by Table Rock Dam constructed in 1954-1958 on the White River by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Isn't this a huge lake?!?!  And downstream is another huge lake, Bull Shoals, also on the white River.

This, obviously, is the lake side of the dam.  You can see how overcast it is, yet the winds are very calm.

The grounds around the Visitors Center and Main Office were beautiful.  Below are pictures of a tree and several types of flowers around.

This is a Smoke Tree.  Interesting name and beautiful color.

We walked out on a boat dock just in time to see the Showboat Branson Belle come by.  We plan to have dinner and see the show one day next week.  Looking forward to it!

We drove to the river side of the dam.  Impressive.

I'm standing at the top of the hill with the White River on the other side of me.

We found a road that took us down to the river's edge.

The humidity is high, the air temperature is much warmer than the water temperature, so fog is building on the river. As you can tell, we are looking back at the dam.

This is looking away from the dam.  You can see the fog is starting to form this direction also.

In both directions, look how much thicker the fog is in just minutes. See the above picture and below picture.

There are several hikes around the White River.  They all start here.  We will have to come back and hike on a non-rainy day.

We hear lots of birds but cannot see any.  However, Tic was able to catch this grey squirrel.  

We were glad to get out for a little bit this afternoon.  The forecast is for clearing tomorrow (Saturday) and sunny on Sunday.  Maybe we will hike tomorrow.