When driving through Arizona, some time before the Grand Canyon, there is pretty much one thing you see: desert. It is somewhat interesting desert, punctuated every now and then by hills and rocky plateaus - much more interesting than driving through, say, Oklahoma, which we also did on this trip - but it is all pretty universally brown. When we saw a marking for a "scenic point," we decided to turn off for the heck of it, and after driving for a while on an extremely rocky road that almost killed my brother's car, we arrived at the top of a vista that overlooked this lake, which from my map-studying skills I now believe is Jakob Lake. Being as it was such a horizontally long reservoir of water it was difficult to get a good picture of it [the next photo is a more accurate portrayal], but it was really quite an interesting spot - after all that brown, it seemed like the bluest thing we had ever seen.

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